Marie of Luxembourg, Queen of France

Queen consort of France and Navarre

Marie of Luxembourg

Queen consort of France and Navarre
Tenure	21 September 1322 – 26 March 1324
Coronation	15 May 1323

Born	1304
Died	26 March 1324 (aged 19–20)
Burial	Montargis
Spouse	Charles IV of France
House	Luxembourg
Father	Henry VII, Holy Roman Emperor
Mother	Margaret of Brabant

Marie of Luxembourg (1304 – 26 March 1324) was Queen of France and Navarre as the second wife of King Charles IV and I.

She was the daughter of Henry VII, Holy Roman Emperor and Margaret of Brabant.^[1] Her two siblings were John of Luxembourg and Beatrice of Luxembourg, Queen of Hungary.

Life

Marie was betrothed in 1308 to Louis of Bavaria, son and heir to Rudolf I, Duke of Bavaria. The engagement was agreed on soon after Marie's father Henry became King of the Romans; Rudolf had been a supporter of her father during the struggle for power. It ended due to the death of Louis around 1311. During the same year, Marie's mother Queen Margaret died whilst travelling with Henry in Genoa.

On 21 September 1322 in either Paris^[2] or Provins^[3] Marie married to Charles IV of France following the annulment of his first marriage to the adulterous Blanche of Burgundy.^[1] Blanche had given birth to two children, Philip and Joan, but both of them died young and Charles needed a son and heir to carry on the House of Capet.

On 15 May 1323 Marie was consecrated Queen of France at Sainte-Chapelle by Guillaume de Melum, Archbishop of Sens.^[4] In the same year she became pregnant, but she later miscarried a girl. Whilst pregnant again in March 1324, Marie was travelling to Avignon with King Charles to visit the pope when she fell out of the bottom of the coach.^[5] As a result, she went into labour and her child, a boy (Louis), was born prematurely, and died several hours later; Queen Marie died on 26 March 1324 and was buried at Montargis in the Dominican church. Following her death Charles married Jeanne d'Évreux, but failed to father a son, so the direct House of Capet was succeeded by its branch, the House of Valois.

Ancestors

Ancestors of Marie of Luxembourg, Queen of France

16. Waleran III of Limburg

8. Henry V, Count of Luxembourg

17. Ermesinde, Countess of Luxembourg

4. Henry VI, Count of Luxembourg

18. Henry II of Bar

9. Margaret of Bar

19. Philippa of Dreux

2. Henry VII, Holy Roman Emperor

20. Bouchard IV of Avesnes

10. Baldwin of Avesnes

21. Margaret II, Countess of Flanders

5. Beatrice d'Avesnes

22. Thomas II of Coucy

11. Félicité of Coucy

23. Mahaut of Rethel

1. Marie of Luxembourg

24. Henry II, Duke of Brabant

12. Henry III, Duke of Brabant

25. Marie of Hohenstaufen

6. John I, Duke of Brabant

26. Hugh IV, Duke of Burgundy

13. Adelaide of Burgundy

27. Yolande of Dreux

3. Margaret of Brabant

28. William II of Dampierre

14. Guy of Dampierre

29. Margaret II, Countess of Flanders (= 21.)

7. Margaret of Flanders

30. Robert VII of Bethune

15. Matilda of Béthune

31. Isabel of Mori

References

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^ ^a ^b Gades 1951, p. 119.
^ Jean-Marc Cazilhac: Jeanne d'Evreux, Blanche de Navarre : Deux reines de France, deux douairières durant la Guerre de Cent ans, Editions L'Harmattan, 2010, 178 p., p. 20.
^ Christian Bouyer: Dictionnaire des Reines de France, Librairie Académique Perrin, 1992, p. 201.
^ Alexandre Le Noble: Histoire du Sacre et du Couronnement des Rois et Reines de France, Paris, Imprimerie Gaultier-Laguionie, 1825, p. 208 [retrieved 9 January 2015].
^ RHGF XXI, E floribus chronicorum auctore Bernardo Guidonis, p. 733.

Sources

Gades, John A. (1951). Luxemburg in the Middle Ages. Brill.

French royalty
Vacant Title last held by Blanche of Burgundy	Queen consort of France and Navarre 1322–1324	Vacant Title next held by Jeanne d'Évreux

Royal consorts of France

Merovingians (509–751)

Carolingians,
Robertians and Bosonids (751–987)

House of Capet (987–1328)

House of Valois (1328–1589)

House of Lancaster (1422–1453)

Margaret of Anjou

House of Bourbon (1589–1792)

House of Bonaparte (1804–1814; 1815)

House of Bourbon (1814–1815; 1815–1830)

House of Orléans (1830–1848)

Maria Amalia of Naples and Sicily

House of Bonaparte (1852–1870)

Eugénie de Montijo

Consorts to debatable or disputed rulers are in italics.

v t e Royal consorts of Navarre
House of Íñiguez	Auria
House of Jiménez	Toda Andregoto Galíndez Teresa Ramírez Urraca Fernández Jimena Fernández Muniadona Stephanie Placentia Felicia^A Agnes of Aquitaine^A Bertha of Aragon^A Urraca of León and Castile^A Margaret of L'Aigle Urraca of Castile Sancha of Castile Constance of Toulouse
House of Champagne	Margaret of Bourbon Isabella of France Blanche of Artois
House of Capet	Margaret of Burgundy^F Clementia of Hungary^F Joan II, Countess of Burgundy^F Blanche of Burgundy^F Marie of Luxembourg^F Joan of Évreux^F
House of Évreux	Joan of Valois Eleanor of Castile
House of Trastámara	Juana Enríquez^A Agnes of Cleves
House of Albret - Lower Navarre	Marguerite de Navarre
House of Bourbon - Lower Navarre	Margaret of Valois^F Marie de' Medici^F Anne of Austria^F
^AAlso Queen of Aragon. ^FAlso Queen of France.