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This category lists the wives of Counts and Counts Palatine of the Free County of Burgundy; for the Countess regnant of Burgundy see: Category:Counts of Burgundy Wikimedia Commons has media related to Countesses of Burgundy .
House of Blois-Champagne. Father. Henry I, Count of Champagne. Mother. Marie of France. Marie of Champagne ( c. 1174 – 29 August 1204 [1]) was the first Latin Empress of Constantinople by marriage to Emperor Baldwin I. She acted as regent of Flanders during the absence of her spouse from 1202 until 1204.
Charles was the second son of Charles of Valois and his first wife Margaret, Countess of Anjou, [1] and brother of Philip VI of France. In April 1314 he married Joan of Joigny, [2] who succeeded her father John II as Countess of Joigny in 1335, but she died on 2 September 1336. They had no children. Charles made his debut in Guyenne under the ...
Marie I or Mary (1136 – 25 July 1182 in St Austrebert, Montreuil, France) was the suo jure Countess of Boulogne from 1159 to 1170. She also held the post of Abbess of Romsey for five years until her abduction by Matthew of Alsace, who forced her to marry him. She is one of several possible identities of the author Marie de France.
Charles of Blois-Châtillon (1319 – 29 September 1364), nicknamed "the Saint", was the legalist Duke of Brittany from 1341 until his death, via his marriage to Joan, Duchess of Brittany and Countess of Penthièvre, holding the title against the claims of John of Montfort. The cause of his possible canonization was the subject of a good deal ...
Margaret Howard, Countess of Nottingham, by Cornelius Johnson, ( Dunrobin Castle) Margaret Stuart (or Stewart) ( c. 1591 – 4 August 1639), Scottish aristocrat and courtier in England. She served as lady-in-waiting to the queen consort of England, Anne of Denmark. She was the daughter of James Stewart, 2nd Earl of Moray, and Elizabeth Stuart ...
Philip V, King of France. Mother. Joan II, Countess of Burgundy. Margaret I ( French: Marguerite; 1310 – 9 May 1382) was a Capetian princess who ruled as Countess of Burgundy and Artois from 1361 until her death. She was also countess of Flanders, Nevers and Rethel by marriage to Louis I of Flanders, and regent of Flanders during the minority ...
