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Margaret of Valois (1295–1342) was a French noblewoman. She was a daughter of Charles, Count of Valois, and his first wife, Margaret, Countess of Anjou. She was also a sister of King Philip VI of France. In 1310, she married Guy I of Châtillon, Count of Blois. They had three children together:
Son of Count Guy and Margaret of Valois, he beneathed the county of Blois and Dunois, but died during the battle of Crécy, in northern France. Louis III of Châtillon (bef. 1340–1372)
NameReignOther TitlesDescriptionTheobald I of Blois,aka Theobald the ...940–977Count of ToursCount of ChartresCount of ...Son of Theobald the Elder and Richilde.Odo I of Blois(c. 950 – died in 996)977–996Count of ToursCount of ChartresCount of ...Second son of Count Theobald I and ...Theobald II of Blois(c. 983 – 11 July ...996–1004Count of ToursCount of ChartresCount of ...Elder son of Count Odo I, her reign was ...Odo II of Blois(c. 985 – 15 Nov. 1037)1004–1037Count of ToursCount of ChartresCount of ...Younger brother of Count Theobald II, he ...- French Princess
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Margaret of Valois was the third daughter and seventh child of King Henry II of France and his Italian queen, Catherine de’ Medici. She was born at the royal Château de Saint-Germain-en-Laye, where she spent her childhood alongside her sisters, the princesses Elisabeth and Claude. Her closest familial relationship was with her brother Henry (later ...
Catherine de’ Medici’s preference was for a marriage between Margaret and Henry of Navarre, a Huguenot prince. His house, the Bourbons, was another branch of the French royal family, and the hope was that the marriage of Margaret and Henry would rebuild family ties as well as brokering a peace between French Catholics and Huguenots. In April 1572, ...
Margaret’s marriage, at this point, was fast deteriorating. They were unable to conceive an heir, and Henry of Navarre took several mistresses, most notably Charlotte de Sauve, who sabotaged Margaret’s attempt to reform the alliance between Francis of Alençon and Henry. Henry and Francis both escaped imprisonment in 1575 and 1576, but Margaret was ...
Margaret rallied the Catholic League and turned against her family and husband’s policies. She briefly was able to seize the city of Agen, but the citizens eventually turned on her, forcing her to flee with her brother’s troops in hot pursuit. She was imprisoned in 1586 and forced to watch her favorite lieutenant executed, but in 1587, her gaoler, ...
In 1615, Margaret fell seriously ill, and died in Paris on March 27, 1615, the last survivor of the Valois dynasty. She had named Henry and Marie’s son, the future Louis XIII, as her heir, cementing the link between the old Valois dynasty and the new Bourbons. She was buried in the funerary chapel of the Valois in the Basilica of St. Denis, but her...
Haldane, Charlotte. Queen of Hearts: Marguerite of Valois, 1553–1615. London: Constable, 1968.Goldstone, Nancy. The Rival Queens. Little Brown and Company, 2015.Sealy, Robert. The Myth of the Reine Margot: Toward the Elimination of a Legend. Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers, 1995.The House of Blois-Chartres, which was founded by Theobold V of Blois inherited the counties of Blois and Chartres and others in 1152. His descendants would hold the counties until the deaths of Margaret and Isabella, to which the branch became extinct in 1249.
RulerBornReignDeath913928-975975950975-99612 March 996c.985996-100411 July 10049831004-103715 November 1037Jan 10, 2024 · Margaret of Valois was a French noblewoman. She was a daughter of Charles, Count of Valois and his first wife Margaret, Countess of Anjou and thus a sister of King Philip VI of France. In 1310, she married Guy I, Count of Blois.
Jul 31, 2023 · Saint-Ouen, Seine-Saint-Denis, Île-de-France, France. Death: July 1342 (46-47) Chatillon, France. Immediate Family: Daughter of Charles of France, Count of Valois and Marguerite d'Anjou, comtesse d'Anjou et du Maine. Wife of Guillaume IV de Beaumont, seigneur de Glenay and Guy I de Châtilion, comte de Blois.
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Margaret of Valois (1295–1342) was a French noblewoman. She was a daughter of Charles, Count of Valois, and his first wife, Margaret, Countess of Anjou. She was also a sister of King Philip VI of France. In 1310, she married Guy I of Châtillon, Count of Blois.
