Margaret de Male

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Margaret de Male

Legg inn av Gjest » 25 des 2006 20:32:23

I've been looking at my notes about Maguerite de Flanders, who turned
out to be the heiress of Louis de Male, the count of Flanders since
1346, when he died in 1384. She was apparently born in April 1350
[not in 1305 as shown on page 251 of David Potter's 'France in the
Later Middle Ages', Short Oxford History of France, OUP 2003!] and was
thus only 12 when her first husband, Philippe de Rouvres, the last
Capetian duke of Burgundy, died in November 1361. [They had married
in May 1357 when she was 7.]

As she was potentially one of the greatest heiresses in Europe, there
was competition for her hand. Edward III of England wanted her for
his fourth surviving son Edmund of Cambridge. Louis de Male agreed,
but in 1365 Pope Urban V refused to issue the dispensation which was
necessary as Edmund and Marguerite were related in the fourth degree
of consanguinity. However, when Charles V of France wanted his son
Philip, the first Valois duke of Burgundy, to marry her, that
French-born pope in Avignon obligingly provided Philip in 1367 with a
dispensation for any marriage in the third or fourth degree. The
marriage took place in June 1369.

I know that Marguerite, Edmund, and Philip were all descended from
Philip III of France; but did they have any closer consanguineous
relationships?

Gjest

Re: Margaret de Male

Legg inn av Gjest » 26 des 2006 16:05:26

On Mon, 25 Dec 2006 19:32:23 +0000, I wrote:

I know that Marguerite, Edmund, and Philip were all descended from
Philip III of France;

to which I should have added that the first two were both descended
through Philip IV.

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