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MARGARET OF PROVENCE (1221-1295)

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Originally appearing in Volume V17, Page 704 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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MARGARET OF See also:PROVENCE (1221-1295)  , See also:queen of See also:France, was the daughter of See also:Raymond See also:Berenger V., See also:count of See also:Provence . She was married to See also:Saint See also:Louis at See also:Sens on the 27th of May 1234, and was crowned the next See also:day . See also:Blanche of See also:Castile, the queen-See also:mother, arranged the See also:marriage to win over to the cause of France the powerful count of Provence, but treated her daughter-in-See also:law most unkindly, and her See also:jealousy of the energetic See also:young queen was naturally shared by Louis, whose coldness towards and suspicion of his wife are well known . See also:Margaret did not lack courage, she followed the See also:king on his crusade, and See also:bore herself heroically at See also:Damietta . But her ambition and strong See also:personal prejudices often led her to actions injurious to the See also:realm . This is most noticeable in her hostility to her See also:brother-in-law See also:Charles of See also:Anjou, who had married her See also:sister See also:Beatrice, and her devotion to See also:Henry III. of See also:England, who had married her other sister Eleanor . Aspiring during the reign of her son to the same role which she had seen Blanche of Castile See also:play, she induced, in 1263, the young See also:Philip, See also:heir to the See also:throne, to promise to obey her in everything up to the See also:age of See also:thirty; and Saint Louis was obliged to ask for a See also:bull from See also:Urban IV. which would See also:release the See also:prince from his See also:oath . After Saint Louis' See also:death, Margaret continued obstinately to claim her-rights on the See also:county of Provence against Charles of Anjou . She sought to employ force of arms, calling upon her son, her See also:nephew See also:Edward II. of England, and the See also:German king See also:Rudolph of See also:Habsburg . She did not give up her claim until after the death of Charles of Anjou (1285), when Philip the Bold succeeded in getting her to accept an income from the county of Anjou in See also:exchange for her rights in Provence . She died on the 31st of See also:December 1295 . See E .

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Marguerite de Provence, in Revue See also:des questions historiques (1867), pp . 417-458 .

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