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Agnes Maria of Andechs-Meran (died 1201), queen of France, was the daughter of Bertold IV (died 1251), who was independent Count of Andechs, a castle and territory near Ammersee, Bavaria and from 1183 Duke of Meran in Tirol, which has derived its name from his castle Tyrol, above the valley of Meran. The count held his fiefs directly from the Emperor, so he was independent of the great territorial dukes of Germany. Bertold IV was made Archbishop of Kalocsa (in Hungary) and in 1218 he was made Patriarch of Aquileia.
She is called Marie by some of the French chroniclers. In June 1196 she married Philip Augustus (Philip II), king of France, who had repudiated his first wife Ingeborg of Denmark in 1193. Pope Innocent III espoused the cause of Ingeborg; but Philip did not submit until 1200, when, 9 months after interdict had been added to excommunication, he consented to a separation from Agnes. She died in July of the next year, at the castle of Poissy, and was buried in the church of St. Corentin , near NantesFor a place in Brazil (pronunciation: NAHN-chees), see Nantes, Brazil Nantes ( Breton: Naoned is a commune in western France, prefecture of the Loire-Atlantique departement and of the Pays de la Loire region''. With 277,728 inhabitants in 1999, Nantes is. Her two children by Philip II, Philip, count of Clermont (d. 1234Events Canonization of Saint Dominic Births Deaths Emperor Chukyo of Japan Emperor Go-Horikawa of Japan Monarchs/Presidents Aragon James I King of Aragon and count of Barcelona (reigned from 1213 to 1276) Castile Ferdinand III, the Saint King of Castile a), and Mary, who married Philip, count of NamurNamur is the name of a city in Belgium, capital of Wallonia, as well as a province named after it; also a locality in Wisconsin, USA, founded by Walloon immigrants. Follow the links to visit the article of either of them: Namur (city) Namur (province) Nam, were legitimized by the pope in 1201 at the request of the king. Little is known of the personality of Agnes, beyond the remarkable influence which she seems to have exercised over Philip II. She has been made the heroine of a tragedy by François PonsardFrancois Ponsard ( June 1, 1814 July 7, 1867), was a French dramatist. He was born at Vienne, in the departement of Isere. Trained as a lawyer, his first literary work was a translation of Manfred (1837). His play, Lucrece , was performed at the Theatre F, Agnès de Méranie.
Her sister Hedwig of AndechsSaint Hedwig of Andechs ( 1174 October 1243) was born in Castle Andechs, Bavaria, the daughter of Berthold III, count of Tirol and prince of Carinthia and Istria (Andechs-Meran), and his wife Agnes. One of her sisters married Andrew, king of Hungary. married Henry I, duke of Silesia and was canonized as Saint Hedwig in 1267. Another sister, GertrudeGertrude of Meran was the first wife of Andras II. king of Hungary. She was the mother of Elisabeth the Saint of Hungary, wife of Louis, margrave of Thuringy. Gertrude was killed in 1213, by the hungarian noblemen. was Queen of Hungary.
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