Marguerite of Clermont

Marguerite of Clermont (French: Marguerite de Clermont-Beauvaisis; 1104/05 – after 1145)[1] was a medieval French noblewoman and the Countess of Flanders and Saint-Pol. She had at least three husbands.

Life

Lady Marguerite was born cca. 1104. Her parents were Renaud II, Count of Clermont-en-Beauvaisis and his first wife, Adelaide, Countess of Vermandois (daughter of Herbert IV, Count of Vermandois).[2]

The first spouse of Marguerite’s was Charles I, Count of Flanders, son of Canute IV of Denmark; the couple was childless.[3] Later, cca. 1128, Marguerite married Hugh II, Count of Saint-Pol; they had only one child, a daughter called Béatrix.[4] The third husband of Marguerite was Baudouin d'Encre. Their son was lord Gauthier od Heilly. Marguerite’s last (possible) spouse was Thierry, Count of Flanders, whom she maybe bore a daughter named Laurette.

Notes

  1. ↑ Her name is sometimes Anglicised as Margaret.
  2. ↑ Margaret’s parents are mentioned in the chronicles called Vita Karoli Comitis Flandriæ and De Genere Comitum Flandrensium.
  3. ↑ CARL of Denmark ([1084]-murdered Bruges 2 Mar 1127, bur Bruges, St Donatien, later Saint-Sauveur).
  4. ↑ Charles Du Fresne, Histoire de l'état de la ville d'Amiens et de ses comtes..., Duval, 1840.
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