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13 unusual facts about Queen of France


Adenes Le Roi

The purity of his French and the absence of provincialisms point to a long residence in France, and it has been suggested that Adenes may have followed Mary of Brabant there on her marriage with Philip III of France.

Charles IV of France

In 1322 he married Marie of Luxembourg, daughter of Henry VII, Holy Roman Emperor.

His second wife, Marie of Luxembourg, the daughter of Henry VII, the Holy Roman Emperor, died following a premature birth.

Henry III, Duke of Brabant

# Maria of Brabant (1256, Leuven – January 12, 1321, Murel), married at Vincennes on August 27, 1274 to King Philip III of France.

Henry IV, Duke of Brabant

He was also an older brother of Maria of Brabant, Queen consort of Philip III of France.

Ingeborg of Denmark

Ingeborg of Denmark, Queen of France (1175–1236), wife of Philip II of France and daughter of Valdemar I of Denmark

Ingeborg Psalter

It was created about 1195 in northern France for Ingeborg of Denmark, wife of King Philip II of France.

La Basoche

She gets herself taken on at the tavern, where the next day the widowed Louis XII will receive his new young wife, Mary of England, the sister of Henry VIII.

Louis, Count of Évreux

Maria of Brabant

Margaret, Duchess of Norfolk

Marie of Brabant

Philip III of France

After Isabella's death, he married on 21 August 1274, Maria of Brabant, daughter of Henry III of Brabant and Adelaide of Burgundy.

Philip IV of France

Their stepmother, Marie of Brabant, was suspected of poisoning the two young boys; her first son, Louis, was born in the same month the two boys died.

Rudolf I of Bohemia

On May 25, 1300, King Albert I arranged his marriage with Blanche, daughter of King Philip III of France by his second wife Marie of Brabant.


Flower and Hawk

In her long life of eighty-two years she was born the Duchess of Aquitaine and Countess of Poitou, became Queen of France through marriage to Louis VII, and later became Queen of England when she married Henry II.

Petit appartement de la reine

These rooms, situated behind the grand appartement de la reine, and which now open onto two interior courtyards, were the private domain of the Queens of France, Maria Theresa of Spain, Marie Leszczyńska, and Marie-Antoinette as well as of the duchesse de Bourgogne as dauphine.