Margaret, Countess of Anjou

Margaret
Margaret with her sisters in the Bible of Naples
Countess of Anjou and Maine
Reign	1290 – 1299
Predecessor	Charles II
Successor	Philip I
Co-Sovereign	Charles III
Born	1273
Died	31 December 1299
Burial	Église des Jacobins, Paris
Spouse	Charles of Valois
Issue among others...	Isabelle, Duchess of Brittany Philip VI of France Joan, Countess of Hainaut Margaret, Countess of Blois Charles II, Count of Alençon
House	Capetian House of Anjou
Father	Charles II of Naples
Mother	Mary of Hungary, Queen of Naples
Religion	Roman Catholicism

Margaret, Countess of Anjou (1273 – 31 December 1299) was Countess of Anjou and Maine in her own right and Countess of Valois, Alençon, Chartres and Perche by marriage. Margaret's father was King Charles II of Naples, whilst her husband was Charles of Valois, and her older brother was Saint Louis of Toulouse; her nephew was Charles I of Hungary.

Biography

Margaret was a daughter of Charles II of Naples and his queen Mary of Hungary, the daughter of Stephen V of Hungary. Her father ceded to her husband, Charles of Valois, the Counties of Anjou and Maine as her dowry.^[1] She married Charles of Valois, a son of Philip III of France, at Corbeil on 16 August 1290.^[1] Their children included:

• Isabelle (1292–1309), wife of John III, Duke of Brittany
• Philip VI of France
• Joan of Valois
• Margaret of Valois (1295–1342)
• Charles II of Alençon

Countess Margaret was succeeded by her eldest son.

Ancestry

Ancestors of Margaret, Countess of Anjou

16. Philip II of France               8. Louis VIII of France                       17. Isabelle of Hainaut               4. Charles I of Naples                             18. Alfonso VIII of Castile               9. Blanche of Castile                       19. Eleanor of England               2. Charles II of Naples                                   20. Alfonso II, Count of Provence               10. Ramon Berenguer IV, Count of Provence                       21. Gersenda II of Sabran               5. Beatrice of Provence                             22. Thomas I of Savoy               11. Beatrice of Savoy                       23. Margaret of Geneva               1. Margaret of Anjou and Maine                                         24. Andrew II of Hungary               12. Béla IV of Hungary                       25. Gertrude of Merania               6. Stephen V of Hungary                             26. Theodore I Laskaris               13. Maria Laskarina                       27. Anna Angelina               3. Maria of Hungary                                   28. Suthoi, Khan of Cumania               14. Kuthen, Khan of Cumania                       7. Elizabeth the Cuman

References

1. Charles T. Wood, The French Apanages and the Capetian Monarchy: 1224-1328, (Harvard University Press, 1966), 42-43.