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Divorced in 1105 on grounds of consanquinity.

Ingeborg ((French) Isambour, Ingeburge; also Ingelburge, Ingelborg, Isemburge) (1175 – 29 July 1236) was a Danish-born queen consort of France.

She was a daughter of Valdemar I of Denmark and Sofia of Minsk. Her maternal grandparents were Volodar of Minsk and Richeza of Poland. Her mother was also a maternal half-sister of Canute V of Denmark.

Ingeborg ((French) Isambour, Ingeburge; also Ingelburge, Ingelborg, Isemburge) (1175 – 29 July 1236) was a Danish-born queen consort of France.

She was a daughter of Valdemar I of Denmark and Sofia of Minsk. Her maternal grandparents were Volodar of Minsk and Richeza of Poland. Her mother was also a maternal half-sister of Canute V of Denmark.

Divorced in 1193.

Marie was born in Leuven, Brabant. She was a daughter of Henry III, Duke of Brabant, and Adelaide of Burgundy, daughter of Hugh IV, Duke of Burgundy
Marie married on 24 June 1275, to Philip III of France. This was Philip's second marriage, after the death of his first wife, Isabella of Aragon. Isabella had already given birth to three surviving sons: Louis, Philip and Charles.

Philip was under the strong influence of his mother, the dowager Queen of France, Margaret of Provence and his minion, surgeon and chamberlain (Chambellan) Pierre de La Broce (or Pierre de Brosse). Not being French, Marie stood out at the French court.

In 1276, Philip's son and heir, Louis died, under suspicious circumstances. Marie was suspected of ordering him to be poisoned. La Brosse, who was also suspected, was imprisoned and later executed for the murder. Margaret suspected Marie of ordering the death of Louis and Philip did seem to agree more with his mother than his wife[according to whom?].

[edit] WidowAfter the death of Philip III in 1285, Marie lost some of her political influence, and dedicated her life to her three children. Her stepson, Philip was crowned king of France, as Philip IV, on 6 January 1286 in Reims.

Together with Joan I of Navarre and Blanche of Artois, she negotiated peace in 1294 between England and France with Edmund Crouchback, the younger brother of Edward I of England.[1]

Marie lived right through Philip IV's reign and she had outlived all three children.

[edit] IssueMarie and Philip had three children:

1.Louis (May 1276 – 19 May 1319), Count of Évreux
2.Blanche (1278 – 19 March 1305, Vienna), married Rudolf III of Austria on 25 May 1300
3.Margaret, married Edward I of England
[edit] DeathMarie died in 1321, aged sixty one, in the monastery at Les Mureaux, near Meulan, where she had withdrawn to in 1316. Marie wasn't buried in royal necropolis of Basilica of Saint-Denis, but in the Cordeliers Convent, in Paris. Destroyed in a fire in 1580, the church was rebuilt in the following years.