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Marie of Champagne
Marie of Champagne
Latin Empress consort of Constantinople
Tenure	9 May 1204 – 9 August 1204
Born	c. 1174
Died	29 August 1204; Acre, Kingdom of Israel
Spouse	Baldwin I of Constantinople
House	House of Blois House of Blois-Champagne; ;
Father	Henry I, Count of Champagne
Mother	Marie of France

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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.

Life

Marie was a daughter of Henry I, Count of Champagne, and Marie,^[2] daughter of King Louis VII of France and Eleanor of Aquitaine.^[3]

According to the chronicle of Gislebert of Mons, on 13 May 1179 Marie was officially bethrothed to Baldwin, son of the count of Flanders and Hainaut, to whom she was already promised to be wed in 1171.^[4] Her betrothed was Baldwin VI, son of Baldwin V, Count of Hainaut and Margaret I, Countess of Flanders.

Countess of Flanders

On 6 January 1186, Marie and Baldwin were married at Valenciennes.^[5]

The young countess consort issued charters in her own name and seems to have a soft spot for the cities in Flanders.^[6] In 1200 she and her husband also released the Ninove and Bohéries Abbey from every toll on their territory.^[6]

In 1200, she and her husband took the cross in Bruges.^[7] On 14 April 1202 her husband left Flanders to join the Fourth Crusade.^[8] During her husband's absence, Marie acted as regent for Flanders^[6] for two years.

Marie herself left Flanders to join her husband in Outremer. According to Geoffrey of Villehardouin and other authors she could not join him in the crusade earlier as she was pregnant at the time of his departure.^[9] After delivery of the child, Margaret and sufficient recovery, she set forth to join him.^[10]

Latin Empress

Her husband's Crusade was diverted to Constantinople, capital of the Roman Empire, where the crusaders captured and sacked the city. Then the Crusaders and Venetian established the Latin Empire of Romaniae in place of the fallen one. On 9 May 1204, Baldwin was elected its first Emperor, making Marie the Empress.

She set sail from the port of Marseille and landed in Acre.^[9] It was only when she arrived in Outremer that the news reached her of the fall of Constantinople and the election of Baldwin as the new Emperor of the East. There as an Empress of Constantinople she received the homage of the Prince Bohemond IV of Antioch.^[11] She wanted to set sail for Constantinople but fell sick and died in the Holy Land.^[9]

News of her death reached Constantinople through Crusading reinforcements from Syria. Baldwin was reportedly afflicted by the death of his wife.^[10] Villehardouin reports that Marie "was a gracious and virtuous lady and greatly honoured".^[10]

Children

They had two known children:

Joan, Countess of Flanders (1199/1200 – 5 December 1244).
Margaret II, Countess of Flanders (2 June 1202 – 10 February 1280).

Ancestry

8. Louis VII of France

4. Theodoric, Count of Flanders

9. Eleanor of Aquitaine

2. Baldwin IV, Count of Hainaut

5. Sybilla of Anjou

1. Marie of France

6. Theobald II of Champagne

3. Alice of Namur

7. Matilda of Carinthia

Ancestors of Marie of Champagne

8. Stephen, Count of Blois

4. Theobald II of Champagne

9. Adela of Normandy

2. Henry I of Champagne

10. Engelbert, Duke of Carinthia

5. Matilda of Carinthia

11. Uta of Passau

1. Marie of Champagne

12. Louis VI of France

6. Louis VII of France

13. Adelaide of Maurienne

3. Marie of France

14. William X, Duke of Aquitaine

7. Eleanor of Aquitaine

15. Aenor de Châtellerault

Notes

^ Alberic of Trois-Fontaines, Chronica s.a. 1204 (= L. Weiland (ed.), Monum. German. Histor.: Scriptores XXIII, Hannover, 1874, p. 884 Archived 1 February 2018 at the Wayback Machine), Ralph of Coggeshall, Chronicon Anglicanum s.a. 1204 (= Monum. German. Histor.: Scriptores XXVII, Hannover, 1885, p. 354 Archived 2 February 2018 at the Wayback Machine), Renier of St Laurent, Annales s.a. 1204 (= G.H. Pertz (ed.), Monum. German. Histor.: Scriptores XVI, Hannover, 1858, p. 658 Archived 2 February 2018 at the Wayback Machine), Sigebert of Gembloux, Continuatio Bergensis s.a. 1203 (= G.H. Pertz (ed.), Monum. German. Histor.: Scriptores VI, Hannover, 1844, p. 438 Archived 2 February 2018 at the Wayback Machine), Flandria generosa (Continuatio Claromariscensis) 12 (= L.C. Bethmann (ed.), Monum. German. Histor.: Scriptores IX, Hannover, 1861, p. 330 Archived 1 February 2018 at the Wayback Machine), Liber Obituum Ecclesie Beati Petri Insulensis (= É. Hautcœur (ed.), Documents liturgiques et nécrologiques de l'église collégiale de Saint-Pierre de Lille, Lille - Paris, 1895, p. 177), Necrologium Ecclesiæ Collegiatæ Beati Petri Insulensis (= É. Hautcœur (ed.), Documents liturgiques et nécrologiques de l'église collégiale de Saint-Pierre de Lille, Lille - Paris, 1895, p. 313). Philippe Mouskes, Chronique rimée, edited by Frédéric Auguste Ferdinand Thomas de Reiffenberg, vol. 2 (Brussels, 1838), vv. 20375–20380, p. 305).
^ Alberic of Trois-Fontaines, Chronica s.a. 1198 (= L. Weiland (ed.), Monum. German. Histor.: Scriptores XXIII, Hannover, 1874, p. 876 Archived 1 February 2018 at the Wayback Machine).
^ John F. Benton, The Court of Champagne as a Literary Center, in Speculum, Vol. 36, No. 4 (Oct., 1961), p. 551.
^ Gislebert of Mons, Chronicon Hanoniense 89 (= W. Arndt (ed.), Monum. German. Histor.: Scriptores XXIX, Hannover, 1869, pp. 97 Archived 1 February 2018 at the Wayback Machine, 117 Archived 1 February 2018 at the Wayback Machine; L. Napran (introd. trad. annot.), Gilbert of Mons, Chronicle of Hainaut, Woodbridge, 2005, pp. 60, 72).
^ Gislebert of Mons, Chronicon Hanoniense (= W. Arndt (ed.), "Monum. German. Histor.: Scriptores XXIX, Hannover, 1869, pp. 171 Archived 1 February 2018 at the Wayback Machine-172 Archived 1 February 2018 at the Wayback Machine). Karen S. Nicholas, Countesses as Rulers in Flanders, in Theodore Evergates (ed.), Aristocratic Women in Medieval France, (University of Pennsylvania Press, 1999), pp. 127-128.
^ ^a ^b ^c Karen S. Nicholas, Countesses as Rulers in Flanders, in Theodore Evergates (ed.), Aristocratic Women in Medieval France, (University of Pennsylvania Press, 1999), p. 128.
^ Flandria generosa (Continuatio Gislenensis) s.a. 1200 (= L.C. Bethmann (ed.), Monumenta Germania Historica, Scriptores IX, Hannover, 1861, p. 326 Archived 1 February 2018 at the Wayback Machine).
^ Geoffrey of Villehardouin, De la Conquête de Constantinople VI (= Paulin Paris (ed.), La Conquête de Constantinople, Paris, 1838, pp. 3-4; F.T. Marzials (trad.), Memoirs or Chronicle of The Fourth Crusade and The Conquest of Constantinople, London, 1908).
^ ^a ^b ^c Geoffrey of Villehardouin, De la Conquête de Constantinople CXXX (= Paulin Paris (ed.), La Conquête de Constantinople, Paris, 1838, pp. 104-105; F.T. Marzials (trad.), Memoirs or Chronicle of The Fourth Crusade and The Conquest of Constantinople, London, 1908). Cfr. Alberic of Trois-Fontaines, Chronica s.a. 1204 (= L. Weiland (ed.), Monum. German. Histor.: Scriptores XXIII, Hannover, 1874, p. 884 Archived 1 February 2018 at the Wayback Machine), Flandria generosa (Continuatio Claromariscensis) 12 (= L.C. Bethmann (ed.), Monumenta Germania Historica, Scriptores IX, Hannover, 1861, p. 330 Archived 1 February 2018 at the Wayback Machine), Baldwin of Avesnes, Chronicon Hanoniense quod dicitur Balduini Avennensis (= J. Heller (ed.), Monum. German. Histor.: Scriptores XXV, Hannover, 1880, p. 448 Archived 2 February 2018 at the Wayback Machine-449 Archived 2 February 2018 at the Wayback Machine).
^ ^a ^b ^c Geoffrey of Villehardouin, De la Conquête de Constantinople CXXX (= Paulin Paris (ed.), La Conquête de Constantinople, Paris, 1838, pp. 104-105; F.T. Marzials (trad.), Memoirs or Chronicle of The Fourth Crusade and The Conquest of Constantinople, London, 1908)
^ Alberic of Trois-Fontaines, Chronica s.a. 1204 (= L. Weiland (ed.), Monum. German. Histor.: Scriptores XXIII, Hannover, 1874, p. 884 Archived 1 February 2018 at the Wayback Machine). Runciman, Steven (1954). A History of the Crusades: Volume 3, The Kingdom of Acre and the Later Crusades. p. 115.

Historical sources

Alberic of Trois-Fontaines, Chronica Alberici Monachi Trium Fontium.
Gislebert of Mons, Chronicon Hanoniense (Chronicle of Hainaut).
Geoffrey of Villehardouin, De la Conquête de Constantinople

References

Karen S. Nicholas, Countesses as Rulers in Flanders, in Theodore Evergates (ed.), Aristocratic Women in Medieval France, (University of Pennsylvania Press, 1999), pp. 111–137 (especially pp. 127–129).
Runciman, Steven (1954). A History of the Crusades: Volume 3, The Kingdom of Acre and the Later Crusades. p. 115.

External links

Media related to Maria of Champagne, Latin Empress of Constantinople at Wikimedia Commons

Royal titles
Marie of Champagne House of Champagne Born: c. 1174 Died: 9 August 1204
New title Latin Empire established	Latin Empress consort of Constantinople 1204	Vacant Title next held by Agnes of Montferrat

[1] Alberic of Trois-Fontaines, Chronica s.a. 1204 (= L. Weiland (ed.), Monum. German. Histor.: Scriptores XXIII, Hannover, 1874, p. 884 Archived 1 February 2018 at the Wayback Machine), Ralph of Coggeshall, Chronicon Anglicanum s.a. 1204 (= Monum. German. Histor.: Scriptores XXVII, Hannover, 1885, p. 354 Archived 2 February 2018 at the Wayback Machine), Renier of St Laurent, Annales s.a. 1204 (= G.H. Pertz (ed.), Monum. German. Histor.: Scriptores XVI, Hannover, 1858, p. 658 Archived 2 February 2018 at the Wayback Machine), Sigebert of Gembloux, Continuatio Bergensis s.a. 1203 (= G.H. Pertz (ed.), Monum. German. Histor.: Scriptores VI, Hannover, 1844, p. 438 Archived 2 February 2018 at the Wayback Machine), Flandria generosa (Continuatio Claromariscensis) 12 (= L.C. Bethmann (ed.), Monum. German. Histor.: Scriptores IX, Hannover, 1861, p. 330 Archived 1 February 2018 at the Wayback Machine), Liber Obituum Ecclesie Beati Petri Insulensis (= É. Hautcœur (ed.), Documents liturgiques et nécrologiques de l'église collégiale de Saint-Pierre de Lille, Lille - Paris, 1895, p. 177), Necrologium Ecclesiæ Collegiatæ Beati Petri Insulensis (= É. Hautcœur (ed.), Documents liturgiques et nécrologiques de l'église collégiale de Saint-Pierre de Lille, Lille - Paris, 1895, p. 313). Philippe Mouskes, Chronique rimée, edited by Frédéric Auguste Ferdinand Thomas de Reiffenberg, vol. 2 (Brussels, 1838), vv. 20375–20380, p. 305).

[2] Alberic of Trois-Fontaines, Chronica s.a. 1198 (= L. Weiland (ed.), Monum. German. Histor.: Scriptores XXIII, Hannover, 1874, p. 876 Archived 1 February 2018 at the Wayback Machine).

[3] John F. Benton, The Court of Champagne as a Literary Center, in Speculum, Vol. 36, No. 4 (Oct., 1961), p. 551.

[4] Gislebert of Mons, Chronicon Hanoniense 89 (= W. Arndt (ed.), Monum. German. Histor.: Scriptores XXIX, Hannover, 1869, pp. 97 Archived 1 February 2018 at the Wayback Machine, 117 Archived 1 February 2018 at the Wayback Machine; L. Napran (introd. trad. annot.), Gilbert of Mons, Chronicle of Hainaut, Woodbridge, 2005, pp. 60, 72).

[5] Gislebert of Mons, Chronicon Hanoniense (= W. Arndt (ed.), "Monum. German. Histor.: Scriptores XXIX, Hannover, 1869, pp. 171 Archived 1 February 2018 at the Wayback Machine-172 Archived 1 February 2018 at the Wayback Machine). Karen S. Nicholas, Countesses as Rulers in Flanders, in Theodore Evergates (ed.), Aristocratic Women in Medieval France, (University of Pennsylvania Press, 1999), pp. 127-128.

[KSN_1999_128-6] Karen S. Nicholas, Countesses as Rulers in Flanders, in Theodore Evergates (ed.), Aristocratic Women in Medieval France, (University of Pennsylvania Press, 1999), p. 128.

[7] Flandria generosa (Continuatio Gislenensis) s.a. 1200 (= L.C. Bethmann (ed.), Monumenta Germania Historica, Scriptores IX, Hannover, 1861, p. 326 Archived 1 February 2018 at the Wayback Machine).

[8] Geoffrey of Villehardouin, De la Conquête de Constantinople VI (= Paulin Paris (ed.), La Conquête de Constantinople, Paris, 1838, pp. 3-4; F.T. Marzials (trad.), Memoirs or Chronicle of The Fourth Crusade and The Conquest of Constantinople, London, 1908).

[GdV_CXXX,_AoT-F_1204-9] Geoffrey of Villehardouin, De la Conquête de Constantinople CXXX (= Paulin Paris (ed.), La Conquête de Constantinople, Paris, 1838, pp. 104-105; F.T. Marzials (trad.), Memoirs or Chronicle of The Fourth Crusade and The Conquest of Constantinople, London, 1908). Cfr. Alberic of Trois-Fontaines, Chronica s.a. 1204 (= L. Weiland (ed.), Monum. German. Histor.: Scriptores XXIII, Hannover, 1874, p. 884 Archived 1 February 2018 at the Wayback Machine), Flandria generosa (Continuatio Claromariscensis) 12 (= L.C. Bethmann (ed.), Monumenta Germania Historica, Scriptores IX, Hannover, 1861, p. 330 Archived 1 February 2018 at the Wayback Machine), Baldwin of Avesnes, Chronicon Hanoniense quod dicitur Balduini Avennensis (= J. Heller (ed.), Monum. German. Histor.: Scriptores XXV, Hannover, 1880, p. 448 Archived 2 February 2018 at the Wayback Machine-449 Archived 2 February 2018 at the Wayback Machine).

[GdV_CXXX-10] Geoffrey of Villehardouin, De la Conquête de Constantinople CXXX (= Paulin Paris (ed.), La Conquête de Constantinople, Paris, 1838, pp. 104-105; F.T. Marzials (trad.), Memoirs or Chronicle of The Fourth Crusade and The Conquest of Constantinople, London, 1908)

[11] Alberic of Trois-Fontaines, Chronica s.a. 1204 (= L. Weiland (ed.), Monum. German. Histor.: Scriptores XXIII, Hannover, 1874, p. 884 Archived 1 February 2018 at the Wayback Machine). Runciman, Steven (1954). A History of the Crusades: Volume 3, The Kingdom of Acre and the Later Crusades. p. 115.

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-(= L. Weiland (ed.), ''Monumenta Germaniae Historica, Scriptores'' XXIII, Hannover, 1874, p. [http://www.dmgh.de/de/fs1/object/goToPage/bsb00000886.html?pageNo=884 884]), [[Ralph of Coggeshall]], ''Chronicon Anglicanum s.a.'' 1204 (= ''Monumenta Germaniae Historica, Scriptores'' XXVII, Hannover, 1885, p. [http://www.dmgh.de/de/fs1/object/goToPage/bsb00000863.html?pageNo=354 354]), [[Renier of St Laurent]], ''Annales s.a.'' 1204 (= G.H. Pertz (ed.), ''Monumenta Germaniae Historica, Scriptores'' XVI, Hannover, 1858, p. [http://www.dmgh.de/de/fs1/object/goToPage/bsb00000943.html?pageNo=658 658]), [[Sigebert of Gembloux]], ''Continuatio Bergensis s.a.'' 1203 (= G.H. Pertz (ed.), ''Monumenta Germaniae Historica, Scriptores'' VI, Hannover, 1844, p. [http://www.dmgh.de/de/fs1/object/goToPage/bsb00001094.html?pageNo=438 438]), ''Flandria generosa (Continuatio Claromariscensis)'' 12 (= L.C. Bethmann (ed.), ''Monumenta Germania Historica, Scriptores'' IX, Hannover, 1861, p. [http://www.dmgh.de/de/fs1/object/goToPage/bsb00000841.html?pageNo=330 330]), ''Liber Obituum Ecclesie Beati Petri Insulensis'' (= É. Hautcœur (ed.), ''Documents liturgiques et nécrologiques de l'église collégiale de Saint-Pierre de Lille'', Lille - Paris, 1895, p. [https://archive.org/stream/documentsliturgi00lill#page/176/mode/2up 177]), ''Necrologium Ecclesiæ Collegiatæ Beati Petri Insulensis'' (= É. Hautcœur (ed.), ''Documents liturgiques et nécrologiques de l'église collégiale de Saint-Pierre de Lille'', Lille - Paris, 1895, p. [https://archive.org/stream/documentsliturgi00lill#page/312/mode/2up 313]). [[Philippe Mouskes]], ''Chronique rimée'' vv. 20375-20380 (= F.A.F.T. de Reiffenberg (ed.), ''Chronique rimée de Philippe Mouskes'', II, Brussels, 1838, p. [https://books.google.be/books?id=v31WAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA305 305]).</ref>) was the first [[Latin Empress of Constantinople]] by marriage to [[Baldwin I of Constantinople|Emperor Baldwin I]]. She acted as regent of Flanders during the absence of her spouse from 1202 until 1204.
+(= L. Weiland (ed.), ''Monum. German. Histor.: Scriptores'' XXIII, Hannover, 1874, p. [http://www.dmgh.de/de/fs1/object/goToPage/bsb00000886.html?pageNo=884 884] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180201075350/http://www.dmgh.de/de/fs1/object/goToPage/bsb00000886.html?pageNo=884 |date=1 February 2018 }}), [[Ralph of Coggeshall]], ''Chronicon Anglicanum s.a.'' 1204 (= ''Monum. German. Histor.: Scriptores'' XXVII, Hannover, 1885, p. [http://www.dmgh.de/de/fs1/object/goToPage/bsb00000863.html?pageNo=354 354] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180202190133/http://www.dmgh.de/de/fs1/object/goToPage/bsb00000863.html?pageNo=354 |date=2 February 2018 }}), [[Renier of St Laurent]], ''Annales s.a.'' 1204 (= G.H. Pertz (ed.), ''Monum. German. Histor.: Scriptores'' XVI, Hannover, 1858, p. [http://www.dmgh.de/de/fs1/object/goToPage/bsb00000943.html?pageNo=658 658] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180202190129/http://www.dmgh.de/de/fs1/object/goToPage/bsb00000943.html?pageNo=658 |date=2 February 2018 }}), [[Sigebert of Gembloux]], ''Continuatio Bergensis s.a.'' 1203 (= G.H. Pertz (ed.), ''Monum. German. Histor.: Scriptores'' VI, Hannover, 1844, p. [http://www.dmgh.de/de/fs1/object/goToPage/bsb00001094.html?pageNo=438 438] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180202190151/http://www.dmgh.de/de/fs1/object/goToPage/bsb00001094.html?pageNo=438 |date=2 February 2018 }}), ''Flandria generosa (Continuatio Claromariscensis)'' 12 (= L.C. Bethmann (ed.), ''Monum. German. Histor.: Scriptores'' IX, Hannover, 1861, p. [http://www.dmgh.de/de/fs1/object/goToPage/bsb00000841.html?pageNo=330 330] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180201075435/http://www.dmgh.de/de/fs1/object/goToPage/bsb00000841.html?pageNo=330 |date=1 February 2018 }}), ''Liber Obituum Ecclesie Beati Petri Insulensis'' (= É. Hautcœur (ed.), ''Documents liturgiques et nécrologiques de l'église collégiale de Saint-Pierre de Lille'', Lille - Paris, 1895, p. [https://archive.org/stream/documentsliturgi00lill#page/176/mode/2up 177]), ''Necrologium Ecclesiæ Collegiatæ Beati Petri Insulensis'' (= É. Hautcœur (ed.), ''Documents liturgiques et nécrologiques de l'église collégiale de Saint-Pierre de Lille'', Lille - Paris, 1895, p. [https://archive.org/stream/documentsliturgi00lill#page/312/mode/2up 313]). [[Philippe Mouskes]], ''Chronique rimée'', edited by [[Frédéric Auguste Ferdinand Thomas de Reiffenberg]], vol. 2 (Brussels, 1838), vv. 20375–20380, p. [https://books.google.com/books?id=v31WAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA305 305]).</ref>) was the first [[Latin Empress of Constantinople]] by marriage to [[Baldwin I of Constantinople|Emperor Baldwin I]]. She acted as [[regent]] of Flanders during the absence of her spouse from 1202 until 1204.
 ==Life==
 Marie was a daughter of [[Henry I, Count of Champagne]], and [[Marie of France, Countess of Champagne|Marie]],<ref>[[Alberic of Trois-Fontaines]], ''Chronica s.a.'' 1198
-(= L. Weiland (ed.), ''Monumenta Germaniae Historica, Scriptores'' XXIII, Hannover, 1874, p. [http://www.dmgh.de/de/fs1/object/goToPage/bsb00000886.html?pageNo=876 876]).</ref> daughter of King [[Louis VII of France]].<ref>John F. Benton, The Court of Champagne as a Literary Center, in ''Speculum'', Vol. 36, No. 4 (Oct., 1961), p. 551.</ref>
+(= L. Weiland (ed.), ''Monum. German. Histor.: Scriptores'' XXIII, Hannover, 1874, p. [http://www.dmgh.de/de/fs1/object/goToPage/bsb00000886.html?pageNo=876 876] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180201075502/http://www.dmgh.de/de/fs1/object/goToPage/bsb00000886.html?pageNo=876 |date=1 February 2018 }}).</ref> daughter of King [[Louis VII of France]] and [[Eleanor of Aquitaine]].<ref>John F. Benton, The Court of Champagne as a Literary Center, in ''Speculum'', Vol. 36, No. 4 (Oct., 1961), p. 551.</ref>
-According to the chronicle of [[Gislebert of Mons]], on 13 May 1179 Marie was officially bethrothed to Baldwin, son of the count of Flanders and Hainaut, to whom she was already promised to be wed in 1171.<ref>Gislebert of Mons, ''Chronicon Hanoniense'' 89 (= W. Arndt (ed.), ''Monumenta Germaniae Historica, Scriptores'' XXIX, Hannover, 1869, pp. [http://www.dmgh.de/de/fs1/object/goToPage/bsb00000732.html?pageNo=97 97], [http://www.dmgh.de/de/fs1/object/goToPage/bsb00000732.html?pageNo=117 117]; L. Napran (introd. trad. annot.), ''Gilbert of Mons, Chronicle of Hainaut'', Woodbridge, 2005, pp. [https://books.google.be/books?id=JK1pHrxn4zQC&pg=PA60 60], [https://books.google.be/books?id=JK1pHrxn4zQC&pg=PA72 72]).</ref> Her betrothed was [[Baldwin I of Constantinople|Baldwin VI]], son of [[Baldwin V, Count of Hainaut]] and [[Margaret I, Countess of Flanders]].
+According to the chronicle of [[Gislebert of Mons]], on 13 May 1179 Marie was officially bethrothed to Baldwin, son of the count of Flanders and Hainaut, to whom she was already promised to be wed in 1171.<ref>Gislebert of Mons, ''Chronicon Hanoniense'' 89 (= W. Arndt (ed.), ''Monum. German. Histor.: Scriptores'' XXIX, Hannover, 1869, pp. [http://www.dmgh.de/de/fs1/object/goToPage/bsb00000732.html?pageNo=97 97] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180201075438/http://www.dmgh.de/de/fs1/object/goToPage/bsb00000732.html?pageNo=97 |date=1 February 2018 }}, [http://www.dmgh.de/de/fs1/object/goToPage/bsb00000732.html?pageNo=117 117] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180201075347/http://www.dmgh.de/de/fs1/object/goToPage/bsb00000732.html?pageNo=117 |date=1 February 2018 }}; L. Napran (introd. trad. annot.), ''Gilbert of Mons, Chronicle of Hainaut'', Woodbridge, 2005, pp. [https://books.google.com/books?id=JK1pHrxn4zQC&pg=PA60 60], [https://books.google.com/books?id=JK1pHrxn4zQC&pg=PA72 72]).</ref> Her betrothed was [[Baldwin I of Constantinople|Baldwin VI]], son of [[Baldwin V, Count of Hainaut]] and [[Margaret I, Countess of Flanders]].
 ===Countess of Flanders===
-On 6 January 1186, Marie and Baldwin were married at [[Valenciennes]].<ref>Gislebert of Mons, ''Chronicon Hanoniense'' (= W. Arndt (ed.), ''Monumenta Germaniae Historica, Scriptores'' XXIX, Hannover, 1869, pp. [http://www.dmgh.de/de/fs1/object/goToPage/bsb00000732.html?pageNo=171 171]-[http://www.dmgh.de/de/fs1/object/goToPage/bsb00000732.html?pageNo=172 172]). Karen S. Nicholas, Countesses as Rulers in Flanders, in Theodore Evergates (ed.), ''Aristocratic Women in Medieval France'', (University of Pennsylvania Press, 1999), pp. [https://books.google.be/books?id=d_-ytOKnWSUC&pg=PA127 127]-[https://books.google.be/books?id=d_-ytOKnWSUC&pg=PA128 128].</ref>
+On 6 January 1186, Marie and Baldwin were married at [[Valenciennes]].<ref>Gislebert of Mons, ''Chronicon Hanoniense'' (= W. Arndt (ed.), ''"Monum. German. Histor.: Scriptores'' XXIX, Hannover, 1869, pp. [http://www.dmgh.de/de/fs1/object/goToPage/bsb00000732.html?pageNo=171 171] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180201075314/http://www.dmgh.de/de/fs1/object/goToPage/bsb00000732.html?pageNo=171 |date=1 February 2018 }}-[http://www.dmgh.de/de/fs1/object/goToPage/bsb00000732.html?pageNo=172 172] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180201075545/http://www.dmgh.de/de/fs1/object/goToPage/bsb00000732.html?pageNo=172 |date=1 February 2018 }}). Karen S. Nicholas, Countesses as Rulers in Flanders, in Theodore Evergates (ed.), ''Aristocratic Women in Medieval France'', (University of Pennsylvania Press, 1999), pp. [https://books.google.com/books?id=d_-ytOKnWSUC&pg=PA127 127]-[https://books.google.com/books?id=d_-ytOKnWSUC&pg=PA128 128].</ref>
-The young countess consort issued charters in her own name and seems to have a soft spot for the cities in Flanders.<ref name="KSN 1999 128">Karen S. Nicholas, Countesses as Rulers in Flanders, in Theodore Evergates (ed.), ''Aristocratic Women in Medieval France'', (University of Pennsylvania Press, 1999), p. [https://books.google.be/books?id=d_-ytOKnWSUC&pg=PA128 128].</ref> In 1200 she and her husband also released the Ninove and Bohéries Abbey from every toll on their territory.<ref name="KSN 1999 128"/>
+The young countess consort issued charters in her own name and seems to have a soft spot for the cities in Flanders.<ref name="KSN 1999 128">Karen S. Nicholas, Countesses as Rulers in Flanders, in Theodore Evergates (ed.), ''Aristocratic Women in Medieval France'', (University of Pennsylvania Press, 1999), p. [https://books.google.com/books?id=d_-ytOKnWSUC&pg=PA128 128].</ref> In 1200 she and her husband also released the Ninove and Bohéries Abbey from every toll on their territory.<ref name="KSN 1999 128"/>
-In 1200 she and her husband took the cross in [[Bruges]].<ref>''Flandria generosa (Continuatio Gislenensis) s.a.'' 1200 (= L.C. Bethmann (ed.), ''Monumenta Germania Historica, Scriptores'' IX, Hannover, 1861, p. [http://www.dmgh.de/de/fs1/object/goToPage/bsb00000841.html?pageNo=326 326]).</ref> On 14 April 1202 her husband left Flanders to join the [[Fourth Crusade]].<ref>Geoffrey of Villehardouin, ''De la Conquête de Constantinople'' VI (= Paulin Paris (ed.), ''La Conquête de Constantinople'', Paris, 1838, pp. [http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k2985056/f50.item.zoom 3]-[http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k2985056/f51.item.zoom 4]; [http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/basis/villehardouin.html F.T. Marzials (trad.), ''Memoirs or Chronicle of The Fourth Crusade and The Conquest of Constantinople'', London, 1908]).</ref> During her husband's absence, Marie acted as regent for Flanders<ref>Karen S. Nicholas, Countesses as Rulers in Flanders, in Theodore Evergates (ed.), ''Aristocratic Women in Medieval France'', (University of Pennsylvania Press, 1999), p. [https://books.google.be/books?id=d_-ytOKnWSUC&pg=PA128 128].</ref> for two years.
+In 1200, she and her husband took the cross in [[Bruges]].<ref>''Flandria generosa (Continuatio Gislenensis) s.a.'' 1200 (= L.C. Bethmann (ed.), ''Monumenta Germania Historica, Scriptores'' IX, Hannover, 1861, p. [http://www.dmgh.de/de/fs1/object/goToPage/bsb00000841.html?pageNo=326 326] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180201075412/http://www.dmgh.de/de/fs1/object/goToPage/bsb00000841.html?pageNo=326 |date=1 February 2018 }}).</ref> On 14 April 1202 her husband left Flanders to join the [[Fourth Crusade]].<ref>Geoffrey of Villehardouin, ''De la Conquête de Constantinople'' VI (= Paulin Paris (ed.), ''La Conquête de Constantinople'', Paris, 1838, pp. [http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k2985056/f50.item.zoom 3]-[http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k2985056/f51.item.zoom 4]; [http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/basis/villehardouin.html F.T. Marzials (trad.), ''Memoirs or Chronicle of The Fourth Crusade and The Conquest of Constantinople'', London, 1908]).</ref> During her husband's absence, Marie acted as regent for Flanders<ref name="KSN 1999 128"/> for two years.
 Marie herself left Flanders to join her husband in [[Outremer]]. According to [[Geoffrey of Villehardouin]] and other authors she could not join him in the crusade earlier as she was pregnant at the time of his departure.<ref name="GdV CXXX, AoT-F 1204"/> After delivery of the child, [[Margaret II, Countess of Flanders|Margaret]] and sufficient recovery, she set forth to join him.<ref name="GdV CXXX">Geoffrey of Villehardouin, ''De la Conquête de Constantinople'' CXXX (= Paulin Paris (ed.), ''La Conquête de Constantinople'', Paris, 1838, pp. [http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k2985056/f151.item.zoom 104]-[http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k2985056/f152.item.zoom 105]; [http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/basis/villehardouin.html F.T. Marzials (trad.), ''Memoirs or Chronicle of The Fourth Crusade and The Conquest of Constantinople'', London, 1908])</ref>
 === Latin Empress ===
-Her husband's Crusade was diverted to [[Constantinople]], capital of the [[Byzantine Empire|Roman Empire]], where the crusaders captured and sacked the city. Then the Crusaders and Venetian established the [[Latin Empire|Latin Empire of Romaniae]] in place of the fallen one. On 9 May 1204, Baldwin was elected its first Emperor making Marie the Empress.
+Her husband's Crusade was diverted to [[Constantinople]], capital of the [[Byzantine Empire|Roman Empire]], where the crusaders captured and sacked the city. Then the Crusaders and Venetian established the [[Latin Empire|Latin Empire of Romaniae]] in place of the fallen one. On 9 May 1204, Baldwin was elected its first Emperor, making Marie the Empress.
 She set sail from the port of [[Marseille]] and landed in [[Acre, Israel|Acre]].<ref name="GdV CXXX, AoT-F 1204">Geoffrey of Villehardouin, ''De la Conquête de Constantinople'' CXXX (= Paulin Paris (ed.), ''La Conquête de Constantinople'', Paris, 1838, pp. [http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k2985056/f151.item.zoom 104]-[http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k2985056/f152.item.zoom 105]; [http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/basis/villehardouin.html F.T. Marzials (trad.), ''Memoirs or Chronicle of The Fourth Crusade and The Conquest of Constantinople'', London, 1908]). Cfr. Alberic of Trois-Fontaines, ''Chronica s.a.'' 1204
-(= L. Weiland (ed.), ''Monumenta Germaniae Historica, Scriptores'' XXIII, Hannover, 1874, p. [http://www.dmgh.de/de/fs1/object/goToPage/bsb00000886.html?pageNo=884 884]), ''Flandria generosa (Continuatio Claromariscensis)'' 12 (= L.C. Bethmann (ed.), ''Monumenta Germania Historica, Scriptores'' IX, Hannover, 1861, p. [http://www.dmgh.de/de/fs1/object/goToPage/bsb00000841.html?pageNo=330 330]), [[Baldwin of Avesnes]],  Chronicon Hanoniense quod dicitur Balduini Avennensis (= J. Heller (ed.), Monumenta Germaniae Historica, Scriptores XXV, Hannover, 1880, p. [http://www.dmgh.de/de/fs1/object/goToPage/bsb00000865.html?pageNo=448 448]-[http://www.dmgh.de/de/fs1/object/goToPage/bsb00000865.html?pageNo=449 449]).</ref> It was only when she arrived in Outremer that the news reached her of the fall of Constantinople and the election of Baldwin as the new Emperor of the East. There as an Empress of Constantinople she received the homage of the Prince [[Bohemond IV of Antioch]].<ref>Alberic of Trois-Fontaines, ''Chronica s.a.'' 1204
+(= L. Weiland (ed.), ''Monum. German. Histor.: Scriptores'' XXIII, Hannover, 1874, p. [http://www.dmgh.de/de/fs1/object/goToPage/bsb00000886.html?pageNo=884 884] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180201075350/http://www.dmgh.de/de/fs1/object/goToPage/bsb00000886.html?pageNo=884 |date=1 February 2018 }}), ''Flandria generosa (Continuatio Claromariscensis)'' 12 (= L.C. Bethmann (ed.), ''Monumenta Germania Historica, Scriptores'' IX, Hannover, 1861, p. [http://www.dmgh.de/de/fs1/object/goToPage/bsb00000841.html?pageNo=330 330] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180201075435/http://www.dmgh.de/de/fs1/object/goToPage/bsb00000841.html?pageNo=330 |date=1 February 2018 }}), [[Baldwin of Avesnes]], Chronicon Hanoniense quod dicitur Balduini Avennensis (= J. Heller (ed.), Monum. German. Histor.: Scriptores XXV, Hannover, 1880, p. [http://www.dmgh.de/de/fs1/object/goToPage/bsb00000865.html?pageNo=448 448] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180202190155/http://www.dmgh.de/de/fs1/object/goToPage/bsb00000865.html?pageNo=448 |date=2 February 2018 }}-[http://www.dmgh.de/de/fs1/object/goToPage/bsb00000865.html?pageNo=449 449] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180202190214/http://www.dmgh.de/de/fs1/object/goToPage/bsb00000865.html?pageNo=449 |date=2 February 2018 }}).</ref> It was only when she arrived in Outremer that the news reached her of the fall of Constantinople and the election of Baldwin as the new Emperor of the East. There as an Empress of Constantinople she received the homage of the Prince [[Bohemond IV of Antioch]].<ref>Alberic of Trois-Fontaines, ''Chronica s.a.'' 1204
-(= L. Weiland (ed.), ''Monumenta Germaniae Historica, Scriptores'' XXIII, Hannover, 1874, p. [http://www.dmgh.de/de/fs1/object/goToPage/bsb00000886.html?pageNo=884 884]). {{Cite book|authorlink=Steven Runciman|last= Runciman|first= Steven|title= A History of the Crusades: Volume 3, The [[Kingdom of Acre]] and the Later Crusades |year= 1954|page=[https://books.google.be/books?id=mrw8AAAAIAAJ&pg=PA115 115]}}</ref> She wanted to set sail for Constantinople but fell sick and died in the [[Holy Land]].<ref name="GdV CXXX, AoT-F 1204" />
+(= L. Weiland (ed.), ''Monum. German. Histor.: Scriptores'' XXIII, Hannover, 1874, p. [http://www.dmgh.de/de/fs1/object/goToPage/bsb00000886.html?pageNo=884 884] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180201075350/http://www.dmgh.de/de/fs1/object/goToPage/bsb00000886.html?pageNo=884 |date=1 February 2018 }}). {{Cite book|authorlink=Steven Runciman|last= Runciman|first= Steven|title= A History of the Crusades: Volume 3, The [[Kingdom of Acre]] and the Later Crusades |year= 1954|page=[https://books.google.com/books?id=mrw8AAAAIAAJ&pg=PA115 115]}}</ref> She wanted to set sail for Constantinople but fell sick and died in the [[Holy Land]].<ref name="GdV CXXX, AoT-F 1204" />
 News of her death reached Constantinople through Crusading reinforcements from [[Syria]]. Baldwin was reportedly afflicted by the death of his wife.<ref name="GdV CXXX"/> Villehardouin reports that Marie "was a gracious and virtuous lady and greatly honoured".<ref name="GdV CXXX"/>
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+{{ahnentafel|1. [[Marie of France, Countess of Champagne|Marie of France]]|2. [[Baldwin IV, Count of Hainaut]]|3. [[Alice of Namur]]|4. [[Theodoric, Count of Flanders]]|5. [[Sybilla of Anjou]]|6. [[Theobald II of Champagne]]|7. [[Matilda of Carinthia]]|8. [[Louis VII of France]]|9. [[Eleanor of Aquitaine]]|align=center|boxstyle_1=background-color: #fcc;|boxstyle_2=background-color: #fb9;|boxstyle_3=background-color: #ffc;|boxstyle_4=background-color: #bfc;}}{{ahnentafel
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 ==Historical sources==
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 ==References==
-* Karen S. Nicholas, Countesses as Rulers in Flanders, in Theodore Evergates (ed.), ''Aristocratic Women in Medieval France'', (University of Pennsylvania Press, 1999), pp. 111-137 (especially pp. 127-129).
+* Karen S. Nicholas, Countesses as Rulers in Flanders, in Theodore Evergates (ed.), ''Aristocratic Women in Medieval France'', (University of Pennsylvania Press, 1999), pp.&nbsp;111–137 (especially pp.&nbsp;127–129).
-* {{Cite book|authorlink=Steven Runciman|last= Runciman|first= Steven|title= A History of the Crusades: Volume 3, The [[Kingdom of Acre]] and the Later Crusades |year= 1954|page=[https://books.google.be/books?id=mrw8AAAAIAAJ&pg=PA115 115]}}
+* {{Cite book|authorlink=Steven Runciman|last= Runciman|first= Steven|title= A History of the Crusades: Volume 3, The [[Kingdom of Acre]] and the Later Crusades |year= 1954|page=[https://books.google.com/books?id=mrw8AAAAIAAJ&pg=PA115 115]}}
 ==External links==
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+{{commons category-inline|Maria of Champagne, Latin Empress of Constantinople}}
-* {{MLCC |external links=1 |url=http://fmg.ac/Projects/MedLands/CHAMPAGNE%20NOBILITY.htm#Mariedied1204 |title-date= |title= Her profile |date=August 2012}}
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