Margaret of Artois

Countess of Évreux (1285–1311)

Margaret of Artois

Born| 1285
Died| 1311 (aged 25-26)
Noble family| Artois
Spouse(s)| Louis d'Évreux
Issue|

* Marie d'Évreux
* Charles, Count of Étampes
* Philip III of Navarre
* Margaret, Countess of Auvergne
Jane, Queen of France

Father| Philip of Artois
Mother| Blanche of Brittany

Margaret (Marguerite; 1285–1311) was the eldest child of Philip of Artois and his wife, Blanche of Brittany. She was a member of the House of Artois. She was married to Louis d'Évreux. By her marriage, Margaret was Countess of Évreux.

Margaret was married to Louis d'Évreux at the Hotel d'Evreux, in Paris, son of Philip III of France by his second wife Maria of Brabant.[1] The couple had five children, all of whom lived into adulthood and each had their own children, they were:

* Marie d'Évreux (1303 – 31 October 1335); married in 1311 John III, Duke of Brabant.
* Charles d'Évreux (1305–1336), Count of Étampes; married Maria de la Cerda, Lady of Lunel, daughter of Ferdinand de la Cerda.
* Philip III of Navarre (1306–1343); married Joan II of Navarre.
* Margaret d'Évreux (1307–1350); married in 1325 William XII of Auvergne, mother of Jeanne I of Auvergne.
* Jeanne d'Évreux (1310–1370); married Charles IV of France.

Margaret died aged twenty five or twenty six in Paris and was buried in the now-demolished church of the Couvent des Jacobins with her husband and her five children.

## References

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1. ^ Morrison & Hedeman 2010, p. 4.

## Sources

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* Morrison, Elizabeth; Hedeman, Anne D., eds. (2010). Imagining the Past in France: History in Manuscript Painting, 1250-1500. J. Paul Getty Museum.

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