Marie of Évreux

Marie d'Évreux
Spouse(s)	John III, Duke of Brabant
Noble family	House of Capet
Father	Louis d'Évreux
Mother	Margaret of Artois
Born	1303
Died	31 October 1335

Marie d'Évreux (1303 – October 31, 1335) was the eldest child of Louis d'Évreux and his wife Margaret of Artois. She was a member of the House of Capet.

She was Duchess of Brabant by her marriage to John III, Duke of Brabant. Her paternal grandmother being Marie of Brabant, she was a great-granddaughter of Henry III, Duke of Brabant and so, her husband's second cousin.

Marie was the eldest of five children born to her parents. Marie's younger siblings included: Charles d'Évreux; Lord of Étampes, Philip III of Navarre; husband of Joan II of Navarre, and Jeanne d'Évreux; Queen of France by her marriage to Charles IV of France.

Marriage

In 1311, Marie married John III, Duke of Brabant as his father's gesture of rapprochement with France. They had six children:

• Joanna, Duchess of Brabant (1322–1406)
• Margaret of Brabant (February 9, 1323 – 1368), married at Saint-Quentin on June 6, 1347 Louis II of Flanders
• Marie of Brabant (1325 – March 1, 1399), Lady of Turnhout, married at Tervuren on July 1, 1347 Reginald III of Guelders
• John (1327–1335/36)
• Henri (d. October 29, 1349)
• Godfrey (d. aft. February 3, 1352)

Marie's daughter Joanna was the first woman to be Duchess of Brabant in her own right.

Marie died October 31, 1335, aged thirty-one or thirty-two.^[1][2]

Genealogy

Ancestors of Marie of Évreux

16. Louis VIII of France               8. Louis IX of France                       17. Blanche of Castile               4. Philip III of France                             18. Ramon Berenguer IV of Provence               9. Marguerite of Provence                       19. Beatrice of Savoy               2. Louis d'Évreux                                   20. Henry II, Duke of Brabant               10. Henry III, Duke of Brabant                       21. Marie of Swabia               5. Marie of Brabant                             22. Hugh IV, Duke of Burgundy               11. Adelaide of Burgundy                       23. Yolande of Dreux               1. Marie d'Évreux                                         24. Robert I, Count of Artois               12. Robert II, Count of Artois                       25. Matilda of Brabant               6. Philip of Artois                             26. Pierre de Courtenay               13. Amicie de Courtenay                       27. Perenelle de Joigny               3. Margaret of Artois                                   28. John I, Duke of Brittany               14. John II, Duke of Brittany                       29. Blanche of Navarre               7. Blanche of Brittany                             30. Henry III of England               15. Beatrice of England                       31. Eleanor of Provence

References

1. Marie d'Évreux
2. Ancestors of Marie d'Évreux