Marie of Luxembourg, Queen of France

Not to be confused with Marie de Luxembourg, Countess of Vendôme.

Marie of Luxembourg
Queen consort of France and Navarre
Reign	1322–1324
Coronation	15 May 1323
Born	1304
Died	26 March 1324 (aged 19–20)
Burial	Montargis
Spouse	Charles IV of France
House	House of Luxembourg
Father	Henry VII, Holy Roman Emperor
Mother	Margaret of Brabant
Religion	Roman Catholicism

Marie of Luxembourg (1304 – 26 March 1324), was by birth member of the House of Luxembourg and by marriage Queen of France and Navarre.

She was the daughter of Henry VII, Holy Roman Emperor and Margaret of Brabant. 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.^[1] During the same year, Marie's mother Queen Margaret died whilst travelling with Henry in Geno.

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. 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 and Charles were travelling to Avignon to visit the pope when Marie 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 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

1. Luxembourg, Medieval Lands
2. 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.
3. Christian Bouyer: Dictionnaire des Reines de France, Librairie Académique Perrin, 1992, p. 201.
4. 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].
5. RHGF XXI, E floribus chronicorum auctore Bernardo Guidonis, p. 733.