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AGNES OF MERAN (d. 1201)

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Originally appearing in Volume V01, Page 378 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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AGNES OF See also:MERAN (d. 1201)  , See also:queen of See also:France, was the daughter of See also:Bertold IV., See also:duke of See also:Meran in See also:Tirol . She is called See also:Marie by some of the chroniclers . In See also:June 1196 she married See also:Philip II., See also:king of France,. who had repudiated See also:Ingeborg of See also:Denmark in 1193 . The See also:pope espoused the cause of Ingeborg; but Philip did not submit until 1200, when, See also:interdict having been added to See also:excommunication, he consented to a separation from See also:Agnes . She died in See also:July of the next See also:year, at the See also:castle of See also:Poissy, and was buried in the See also:church of St Corentin, near See also:Nantes . Her two See also:children by Philip II., Philip, See also:count of Clermont (d . 1234), and See also:Mary, who married Philip, count of See also:Namur, were legitimized by See also:Innocent III. in 1201 on the demand of the king . Little is known of the See also:personality of Agnes, beyond the remarkable See also:influence which she exercised over Philip II . She has been made the heroine of a tragedy by See also:Francois See also:Ponsard, Agnes de Meranie . See the notes of See also:Robert Davidsohn in Philipp . II . See also:August von Frankreich and Ingeborg (See also:Stuttgart, 1888) .

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notice is furnished by the Chronicon of the See also:monk Alberic (Aubry) of Trois-Fontaines, (Albericus Trium Fontium) in See also:Pertz, Scriptores, vol. See also:xxiii. pp . 872 f., and by the Genealogia Wettinensis, ibid. p . 229 .

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