Constance of Castile

Constance of Castile
Queen consort of France
Tenure 1154–1160
Born 1136–1140
Died 4 October 1160
Burial Basilica of St Denis
Spouse
Issue Margaret, Queen of England and Hungary
Alys, Countess of the Vexin
House Castilian House of Ivrea
Father Alfonso VII of León and Castile
Mother Berenguela of Barcelona
Religion Roman Catholicism

Constance of Castile (1136 or 1140 - 4 October 1160)[1] was Queen of France as the second wife of Louis VII, who married her following the annulment of his marriage to Eleanor of Aquitaine.[2] She was a daughter of Alfonso VII of León and Berengaria of Barcelona,[3] but her year of birth is not known.

Life

The official reason for her husband's annulment from Eleanor of Aquitaine had been that he was too close a relative of Eleanor for the marriage to be legal by Church standards; however, he was even more closely related to Constance.

Constance died giving birth to her second child. Desperate for a son, her husband remarried a mere five weeks after her death.

Constance was buried in the Basilica of Saint-Denis, France.

Children

Constance had two children:

  1. Margaret, 1157–1197, who married first Henry the Young King of England,[4] and then Béla III of Hungary[5]
  2. Alys, 1160–1220, who married William IV of Ponthieu[6]

Ancestry

References

  1. ↑ Deslot, Thierry (1996). Impératrices et Reines de France [Empresses and Queens of France] (in French). Paris: Les Editions La Bruyère. ISBN 2-84014-279-1.
  2. ↑ Bouchard 2001, p. 126.
  3. ↑ Bradbury 2007, p. 165.
  4. ↑ Warren 1978, p. 90.
  5. ↑ Jaritz & Szende 2016, p. 84.
  6. ↑ Warren 1978, p. 26.

Sources

  • Bouchard, Constance (2001). Those of My Blood: Creating Noble Families in Medieval Francia. University of Pennsylvania Press.
  • Bradbury, Jim (2007). The Capetians. Hambledon Continuum.
  • Jaritz, Gerhard; Szende, Katalin, eds. (2016). Medieval East Central Europe in a Comparative Perspective. Routledge.
  • Warren, W.L. (1978). King John. University of California Press.
French royalty
Preceded by
Eleanor of Aquitaine		 Queen of France
1154–1160		 Succeeded by
Adele of Champagne
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