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Birth:          1260 Louvain, Brabant
Death:          12 Jan 1321 Murel
Burial:         Couvent des Cordeliers, Paris, France

Notes
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marie_of_Brabant,_Queen_of_France
Marie of Brabant (13 May 1254 – 12 January 1322[1]) was Queen consort of France by 
marriage to Philip III of France. Born in Leuven, Brabant, she was a daughter of Henry 
III, Duke of Brabant, and Adelaide of Burgundy.
Queen[edit]

Marie married the widowed Philip III of France on 21 August 1274. His first wife, 
Isabella of Aragon, had already given birth to three surviving sons: Louis, Philip and 
Charles.

Philip was under the strong influence of his mother, Margaret of Provence and his 
minion, surgeon and chamberlain (Chambellan) Pierre de La Broce. Not being French, 
Marie stood out at the French court. In 1276, Marie's stepson Louis died under 
suspicious circumstances. Marie was suspected of ordering him to be poisoned. La 
Brosse, who was also suspected, was imprisoned and later executed for the murder. 
Margaret suspected Marie of ordering the death of Louis, and Philip did seem to agree 
more with his mother than his wife[according to whom?].

Queen dowager[edit]

After the death of Philip III in 1285, Marie lost some of her political influence, and 
dedicated her life to their three children: Louis (May 1276 – 19 May 1319), Blanche 
(1278 - 19 March 1305) and Margaret (died in 1318). Her stepson, Philip IV was 
crowned king of France on 6 January 1286 in Reims.

Together with Joan I of Navarre and Blanche of Artois, she negotiated peace in 1294 
between England and France with Edmund Crouchback, the younger brother of 
Edward I of England.[2]

Marie lived through Philip IV's reign and she outlived her children. She died in 1321, 
aged 66, in the monastery at Les Mureaux, near Meulan, where she had withdrawn to 
in 1316. Marie was not buried in the royal necropolis of Basilica of Saint-Denis, but in 
the Cordeliers Convent, in Paris. Destroyed in a fire in 1580, the church was rebuilt in 
the following years.

Parents
____ Henri III (1230 - 28 Feb 1261)
DE BURGUNDY Adelaide (Alix) (ABT 1233 - 23 1273)

Siblings
DE BRABANT Marie (1260 - 12 Jan 1321)

Marriage To ____ Philippe III "le Hardi" ("the Bold") (1 May 1245 - 5 Oct 1285)
    m. 1274 

Notes

Parents
____ Louis IX "Saint Louis" (25 Apr 1215 - 25 Aug 1270)
DE PROVENCE Margaret (Marguerite) (1221 - 21 Dec 1295)

Children by ____ Philippe III "le Hardi" ("the Bold") 1 May 1245 - 5 Oct 1285
OF FRANCE Margaret (Marguerite) (1282 - 14 Feb 1318)

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