Agnes de Méranie

Agnes de Méranie or of Meran (1172 -- 1201), queen of France, is the girl of the duke of Méranie Berthold IV.

She is the third wife of the king de France Philippe Auguste which married it in on June 1st, 1196 with Compiegne, after having repudiated his second wife Ingeburge of Denmark at the end of the wedding night; the marriage with Ingeburge having been cancelled by an assembly of obliging bishops. The pope Célestin III condemns the divorce and his successor Innocent III breakage the decision of the bishops and nap the king to take again Ingeburge which it had moved away. In January 1200, it puts the kingdom of France in interdict what suspends any sacrementelle life and liturgical.

Measurement being likely to raise against the king his private subjects of Sacrament S and burials, Philippe Auguste pretends to yield, sends Agnès to the convent of Poissy and returns in Ingeburge a row to the court, but without taking again with it the married life. On the other hand, the king, anxious of a succession badly ensured by the only son that it had his first woman, Isabelle de Hainaut, negotiates with the pope the recognition of the two children whom it has of Agnes, Philippe Hurepel and Marie.

With the king Philippe Auguste, Agnes have four natural children including two still-born children. The two survivors nevertheless are recognized legitimate heirs to Philippe Auguste by the pope Innocent III:

Marie (1198 - 1224), which marries in 1206 Philippe Ier, count de Namur (1175 - 1212). It remarie in 1213 with Henri Ier, duke of the Brabant (v. 1165 - 1235),
Jean-Tristan (still-born child in 1200)
Philippe Hurepel (1201 - 1234), count de Clermont and of Boulogne, which marries in 1216 Mathilde de Dammartin (v. 1202 - 1259) and inherits the Comté of Boulogne.
Agnès would have had a fourth child of male sex still-born child.

Led to Senlis, she will die there of sorrow on July 20th, 1201, two months after her installation. She is buried with the Couvent of Saint-Corentin to Mantes. Its death caused with the king who liked it an immense pain.

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