Marie, Countess of Ponthieu

Marie, Countess of Ponthieu
Marie, Countess of Ponthieu
Born	(1199-04-17)17 April 1199
Died	21 September 1250 (1250-09-22) (aged 51)
Spouse(s)	Simon of Dammartin Mathieu de Montmorency, Seigneur d'Attichy
Issue Joanna of Dammartin Mathilda of Dammartin Philippa of Dammartin Maria of Dammartin
Father	William IV of Ponthieu
Mother	Alys, Countess of the Vexin

Marie of Ponthieu (17 April 1199 – 21 September 1250) was suo jure Countess of Ponthieu and Countess of Montreuil, ruling from 1221 to 1250.

Biography

Marie was the daughter of William IV of Ponthieu and Alys, Countess of the Vexin, and granddaughter of King Louis VII of France by his second wife Constance of Castile.^[1] As her father's only surviving child, Marie succeeded him, ruling as Countess of Ponthieu and Montreuil from 1221 to 1250.

Marriages and children

She married Simon of Dammartin before September 1208.^[2] He was the son of Alberic II of Dammartin and Maud de Clermont, daughter of Renaud de Clermont, Count de Clermont-en-Beauvaisis. Simon and Marie had four daughters but only two are recorded. Their elder daughter was Joan of Dammartin (1220- 16 March 1279), second wife of Ferdinand III of Castile.^[3] Their younger daughter was Philippe of Dammartin (died 1277/81) who married firstly Raoul II d' Issoudun, secondly Raoul II de Coucy, and thirdly Otto II, Count Geldern.

Marie married secondly sometime between September 1240 and 15 December 1241, Mathieu de Montmorency, Seigneur d'Attichy, who was killed in battle at Mansurrah on 8 February 1250 during the Seventh Crusade, led by King Louis IX of France.

Ancestry

Ancestors of Marie, Countess of Ponthieu

16. William III of Ponthieu

8. Guy II of Ponthieu

17. Helie of Burgundy

4. John I, Count of Ponthieu

9. Ida

2. William IV of Ponthieu

20. Hugh III, Comte de Saint-Pol

10. Anselme de Campdavaine, Count of Saint-Pol

5. Beatrice of Saint-Pol

11. Eustachie de Champagne

1. Marie, Countess of Ponthieu

24. Philip I of France

12. Louis VI of France

25. Bertha of Holland

6. Louis VII of France

26. Humbert II of Savoy

13. Adélaide of Maurienne

27. Gisela of Burgundy

3. Alys, Countess of the Vexin

28. Raymond of Burgundy

14. Alfonso VII of León

29. Urraca of León

7. Constance of Castile

30. Ramon Berenguer III, Count of Barcelona

15. Berenguela of Barcelona

31. Douce I, Countess of Provence

References

↑ John W. Baldwin, Aristocratic Life in Medieval France, (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2002), 58.
↑ John W. Baldwin, Aristocratic Life in Medieval France, 59.
↑ Miriam Shadis, Berenguela of Castile (1180-1246) and Political Women in the High Middle Ages, (Palgrave Macmillan, 2009), 108.

Preceded by William IV	Countess of Ponthieu 1221–1250	Succeeded by Joan

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