Eddie Lang
Marie de Montferrat (1191 - 1212) was the girl of Conrad de Montferrat and Isabelle, queen of Jerusalem. His/her father was killed on April 28th, 1192 with Tyr by Hashshâshîn. His/her mother remaria with Henri II of Champagne on May 5th, whereas it was already obviously pregnant (the chronicle of Ernoul, continuation as former French of Guillaume de Tyr, like Imad AD-DIN Al-Isfahani, noticed the thing). Marie was thus a posthumous child.
With died of her mother in 1205, Marie became queen of Jerusalem, although it was only thirteen years old. The half-brother of its mother, Jean d' Ibelin, lord of Beirut, exerted regency in the name of Marie.
September 14th, 1210, she married in Acre Jean de Brienne (about 1150 - 1237), which was sixty years old, in a marriage that one arranged for her. Their Yolande daughter of Jerusalem (known also under the name of Isabelle) was born in 1212, but Marie died little of time afterwards, probably of the Fièvre puerpérale. Jean became regent for his daughter Isabelle II (1211-1228), now queen of Jerusalem, which was to marry the emperor Frederic II
The line of Marie died out in 1268, when its great-grandson Conradin (Conrad III of Jerusalem), was carried out in Italy of the South. After him, the descendants of his/her half-sister junior (Alice of Champagne) collected all her heritage.
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