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Marie of Évreux


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nameMarie d'Évreux
imageBlason de Marie d'Évreux.png
image_size100px
captionMarie d'Évreux
noble familyCapet
fatherLouis d'Évreux
motherMargaret of Artois
spouse
issueJoanna, Duchess of Brabant
Margaret of Brabant
Marie of Brabant
John
Henry
Godfrey
birth_date1303
death_date

Margaret of Brabant Marie of Brabant John Henry Godfrey Marie d'Évreux (1303 – October 31, 1335) was the eldest child of Louis d'Évreux and his wife Margaret of Artois. She was a member of the House of Capet.

She was Duchess of Brabant by her marriage to John III, Duke of Brabant. Her paternal grandmother being Marie of Brabant, she was a great-granddaughter of Henry III, Duke of Brabant and so, her husband's second cousin.

Marie was the eldest of five children born to her parents. Marie's younger siblings included: Charles d'Évreux; Lord of Étampes, Philip III of Navarre; husband of Joan II of Navarre, and Jeanne d'Évreux; Queen of France by her marriage to Charles IV of France.

Marriage

In 1311, Marie married John III, Duke of Brabant as his father's gesture of rapprochement with France. They had six children:

  • Joanna, Duchess of Brabant (1322–1406)
  • Margaret of Brabant (February 9, 1323 – 1368), married at Saint-Quentin on June 6, 1347 Louis II of Flanders
  • Marie of Brabant (1325 – March 1, 1399), Lady of Turnhout, married at Tervuren on July 1, 1347 Reginald III of Guelders
  • John (1327–1335/36)
  • Henri (d. October 29, 1349)
  • Godfrey (d. aft. February 3, 1352)

Marie's daughter Joanna was the first woman to be Duchess of Brabant in her own right.

Marie died October 31, 1335, aged thirty-one or thirty-two.

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