Editing Agnes of Merania

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| consort      = yes
| succession   = [[Queen consort of France|Queen consort of the Franks]]
| image        = Agnes of Merania (Hedwig Codex).jpg
| caption      = 
| reign        = 1196–1200
| coronation   = 
| spouse       = [[Philip II of France]]
| issue        = [[Marie of France, Duchess of Brabant|Marie, Duchess of Brabant]]<br>[[Philip I, Count of Boulogne]]
| house        = [[House of Andechs|Andechs]]
| titles       = 
| father       = [[Berthold, Duke of Merania]]
| mother       = [[Agnes of Rochlitz]]
| birth_date   = 1175
| birth_place  = 
| death_date   = {{death-date|July 1201}}
| death_place  = 
| burial_place = |
}}

'''Agnes of Merania''' (1175 – July 1201) was [[Queen of France]] by marriage to King [[Philip II of France|Philip II]].

{{Short description|Queen of France from 1196 to 1201}}

She is called Marie by some of the French chroniclers.{{sfn|McAuliffe|2012|p=197}}

==Biography==
Agnes Maria was the daughter of [[Berthold, Duke of Merania]]{{sfn|Powell|2004|p=66}} and [[Agnes of Rochlitz]].{{sfn|Peters|1971|p=52}}

In June 1196, Agnes married [[Philip II of France]], who had repudiated his second wife [[Ingeborg of Denmark, Queen of France|Ingeborg of Denmark]] in 1193.{{sfn|Bradbury|1997|p=183}} [[Pope Innocent III]] espoused the cause of Ingeborg; but Philip did not submit until 1200, when, nine months after [[Interdict (Catholic canon law)|interdict]] had been added to [[Excommunication (Catholic Church)|excommunication]], he consented to a separation from Agnes.{{sfn|McDougall|2017|p=223}}

Agnes died, possibly in childbirth, in July of the next year, at the castle of [[Poissy]], and was buried in the Convent of St. Corentin, near [[Nantes]].{{sfn|McDougall|2017|p=223}}

==Family==
Agnes and Philip had two children: 
*[[Marie of France, Duchess of Brabant|Mary]], b. 1198{{sfn|McDougall|2017|p=223}}
*[[Philip I, Count of Boulogne]], b 1200{{sfn|McDougall|2017|p=223}}
 
Both were legitimized by the Pope in 1201.{{sfn|Hallam|1980|p=196}} 



==References==
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==Sources==
*{{cite book |last =Bradbury |year=1997 |first=Jim |author-link=Jim Bradbury |title=Philip Augustus: King of France 1180–1223 |series=The Medieval World |edition=1st |publisher=[[Routledge]] |isbn=978-0-582-06059-3  }}
*{{cite book |title=Capetian France, 987-1328 |first=Elizabeth |last=Hallam |publisher=Longman |year=1980 }}
*{{cite book |title=Clash of Crowns: William the Conqueror, Richard Lionheart, and Eleanor of Aquitaine|first=Mary |last=McAuliffe |publisher=Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc. |year=2012 }}
*{{cite book |title=Royal Bastards: The Birth of Illegitimacy, 800-1230 |first=Sara |last=McDougall |author-link=Sara McDougall |publisher=Oxford University Press |year=2017 }}
*{{cite book |title=Christian Society and the Crusades, 1198-1229 |editor-first=Edward |editor-last=Peters |publisher=University of Pennsylvania Press |year=1971  }}
*{{cite book |title=The Deeds of Pope Innocent III |editor-first=James M. |editor-last=Powell |publisher=The Catholic University of America Press |year=2004 }}

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