Margaret of France 
Margaret was born in 1275 in Paris, France.1 Margaret's father was King Phillip (The Bold) Capet of France III and her mother was Maria of Brabrant. Her paternal grandparents were Saint, King Louis Capet of France IX and Marguerite Berenger of Provence; her maternal grandparents were Duke of Brabant Henry of Germany III and Alice of Burgundy. She had a brother and a sister, named Louis and Blanche. She was the oldest of the three children. She had three half-brothers named Louis, The Fair and Charles. She died at the age of 42 on February 14th, 1317.2 General Notes
She was a daughter of Philip III of France and Maria of Brabant. She was also the second Queen consort of King Edward I of England.
Three years after the death of his beloved first wife, Eleanor of Castile, at the age of 48 in 1290, Edward I was still grieving. But news got to him of the beauty of Blanche, sister to King Philip IV of France. Edward decided that he would marry Blanche at any cost and sent out emissaries to negotiate the marriage with Philip. Philip agreed to give Blanche to Edward on the following conditions: a truce was concluded between the two countries and
Edward gave up the province of Gascony.
Edward, surprisingly, agreed and sent his brother Edmund Crouchback, Duke of Lancaster, to fetch the new bride. Edward had been deceived, for Blanche was to be married to Rudolph I of Bohemia and eldest son of Albert I of Germany. Instead Philip offered his younger sister Marguerite, a young girl of 11, to marry Edward (then 55). Upon hearing this, Edward declared war on France, refusing to marry Marguerite. After five years, a truce was agreed, under the terms of which Edward would marry Marguerite and would regain the key city of Guienne, and receive the £15,000 owed to Marguerite from her father, King Philip III the Bold.
Edward was now 60 years old. The wedding took place at Canterbury on September 8, 1299. Edward soon returned to the Scottish border to continue his campaigns and left Marguerite in London. After several months, bored and lonely, the young queen decided to join her husband. Nothing could have pleased the king more, for Marguerite's actions reminded him of his first wife Eleanor, who had had two of her sixteen children abroad.
Marguerite soon became firm friends with her stepdaughter Mary, a nun, who was two years older than the young queen. In less than a year Marguerite gave birth to a son, and then another a year later. It is said that many who fell under the king's wrath were saved from too stern a punishment by the queen's influence over her husband, and the statement, Pardoned solely on the intercession of our dearest consort, queen Marguerite of England, appears.
In all, Marguerite gave birth to three children: Thomas of Brotherton, 1st Earl of Norfolk; Edmund of Woodstock, 1st Earl of Kent; and a daughter, named Eleanor in honor of Edward's first queen, who perished in infancy.
The mismatched couple were blissfully happy. When Blanche died in 1306 (her husband never became Emperor), Edward ordered all the court to go into mourning to please his queen. He had realised the wife he had gained was "a pearl of great price". The same year Marguerite gave birth to a girl, Eleanor, a choice of name which surprised many, and showed Marguerite's un-jealous nature. After Edward died, as a widow at twenty six, she never remarried saying "when Edward died, all men died for me", but she used her immense dowry to relieve people's suffering.
(Wikipedia)
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Ancestor Pedigree Chart
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*There are earlier generations for the ancestor(s) indicated. See their page(s) for details (click name)
- b.1119 in Reims, Champagne, France d.18 Sep 1180 in Paris, France
- b.21 Aug 1165 in Gonesse, Val-d'Oise, France d.14 Jul 1223 in Mantes, France
- b.1140 in Blois, Loir-et-Cher, Centre, France d.1206
- b.05 Sep 1187 in Paris, France d.08 Nov 1226 in Auvergne, France
- b.1150 in Hainault, Belgium d.22 Dec 1196
- b.1170 d.1190
- b.1135 in Alsace, France d.20 Nov 1195
- b.25 Apr 1214 in Poissy, France d.25 Aug 1270 in Tunis, Africa
- b.1134 d.31 Aug 1158 in Toledo, Spain
- b.11 Nov 1155 in Castile, Spain d.06 Oct 1214 in Gutierre Munoz, Avila, Castile
- b.1133 d.31 Aug 1158 in Toledo, Spain
- b.04 Mar 1187 in Burgos, Castile, Spain d.27 Nov 1252 in Paris, France
- b.25 Mar 1133 in Le Mans, Anjou, Sarthe, France d.06 Jul 1189 in Chinon near Tours, Indre-et-Loire, France
- b.13 Oct 1162 in Falaise, Calvados, France d.25 Oct 1214 in Las Huelgas, Burgos, Spain
- b.21 Nov 1122 in Chateau de Berlin, Gironde, France d.31 Mar 1204 in Fontevrault, Anjou, France
- b.03 Apr 1245 in Poissy, France d.05 Oct 1285 in Perpignan, Pyrenees-Orientales
- b.May 1152 d.25 Apr 1196
- b.1174 d.Feb 1209
- b.21 Sep 1164 d.09 Nov 1208 in Sijena
- b.1198 in Aix-en-Provence, Bouches-du-Rhone, France d.19 Aug 1245 in France
- d.1210
- b.1180 d.1209
- d.1190
- b.1221 in St. Maime B, Forcalquier, Bourgogne, France d.21 Dec 1295 in Paris, Isle de France, France
- b.01 Aug 1136 in Savoie, France d.04 Mar 1188 in France
- b.20 Mar 1177 in Carbonierres, Savoy, France d.20 Jan 1233 in Aoste, Isere, France
- b.1156 d.08 Apr 1230
- b.1201 in Chambery, Savoie, France d.Dec 1266 in France
- b.1130 d.25 Jul 1195
- b.1180 in Geneva, Switzerland d.08 Apr 1257 in Pierre-Chatel, France
- b.1138
- b.1275 in Paris, France d.14 Feb 1317
- b.1140 d.21 Sep 1190
- b.1165 in Leuven, Flemish-Brabant, Flanders, Belgium d.05 Sep 1235 in Cologne, Germany
- b.1140
- b.1207 in Brabant, France d.01 Feb 1248 in Leuven, Flemish-Brabant, Flanders, Belgium
- b.1137 d.25 Jul 1173
- b.1162 in Boulogne, France d.1271 in Louvain, France
- b.1136 d.25 Jul 1180
- b.1230 in Brabant, Flanders, Belgium d.28 Feb 1261 in Leuven, Flemish-Brabant, Flanders, Belgium
- b.1122 in Waiblingen, Germany d.10 Jun 1190 in River Calycandus, Cilicia
- b.1176 in Swabia, Germany d.21 Jun 1208 in Bamberg, Oberfranker, Bavaria
- b.1122 in Swabia, Bavaria, Germany d.15 Nov 1184
- b.1208 in Constantinople, Byzantine Empire d.1235 in Leuven, Belgium
- b.Sep 1156 in Constantinople, Byzantine Empire d.12 Apr 1204 in Constantinople, Byzantine Empire
- b.1184 in Constantinople, Byzantine Empire d.27 Aug 1208
- d.1174
- b.1256 in Leuven, Flemish-Brabant, Flanders, Belgium d.12 Jan 1321 in Murel
- b.1142 d.25 Aug 1192 in Acre
- b.1166 in Bourgogne, Marne, Aisne, France d.06 Jul 1218 in Lyon, France
- d.1200
- b.09 Mar 1213 in Bourgogne, France d.27 Oct 1271
- b.1182 in Bourgogne, France d.08 Mar 1252 in Notre Dame de Lieu-Dieu, Prenois-en-Montagne, France
- b.1233 d.23 Oct 1273
- b.1154 in Dreux, Eure Loire, France d.28 Dec 1218 in France
- b.1185 in Braine, France d.1234
- b.1164 d.18 Mar 1222
- b.1212 in Dreux, Eure Loire, France d.1248
- b.1192 d.1250
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Details of Margaret's family with Edward (Longshanks) Plantagenet of England I
1 http://wc.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=jdp-fam&id=I4249
2 http://wc.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=PED&db=arciek&id=I21807&style=TABLE
Further sources/citations:
http://wc.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=jdp-fam&id=I4249, http://wc.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=arciek&id=I17721
2 http://wc.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=PED&db=arciek&id=I21807&style=TABLE
Further sources/citations:
http://wc.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=jdp-fam&id=I4249, http://wc.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=arciek&id=I17721
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