Family of Philip III + and Maria of BRABANT

Husband:	Philip III + (1245-1285)
Wife:	Maria of BRABANT (1254-1321)
Children:	Louis ( -1319)
	Marguerite of FRANCE (1275-1318)
	Blanche (1278-1305)
Marriage	24 Jun 1275

Husband: Philip III +

Name:	Philip III +
Sex:	Male
Nickname:	The Bold
Father:	Louis IX + (1215-1270)
Mother:	Marguerite + of PROVENCE (1221-1295)
Birth	1 May 1245	Poissy, Ile de France, France
Occupation		King of France
Title	frm 25 Aug 1270 to 5 Oct 1285 (age 25-40)	King of France
Title	to 25 Aug 1270 (age 25)	Count of Orleans
Death	5 Oct 1285 (age 40)	Perpignan, Toulouse, France
Burial		Saint Denis Basilica, Paris, France

Wife: Maria of BRABANT

Name:	Maria of BRABANT
Sex:	Female
Father:	-
Mother:	-
Birth	13 May 1254	Leuven, Brabant
Occupation		Queen Consort of France
Title	frm 21 Aug 1274 to 5 Oct 1285 (age 20-31)	Queen Consort of France
Death	12 Jan 1321 (age 66)

Child 1: Louis

Name:	Louis
Sex:	Male
Birth	"5/1276"
Occupation		Count of Evreux
Death	19 May 1319

Child 2: Marguerite of FRANCE

Child 3: Blanche

Name:	Blanche
Sex:	Female
Spouse:	Rudolf III of AUSTRIA (c. 1273- )
Birth	1278
Occupation		Duchess of Austria
Title	frm 1300 to 1 Mar 1305 (age 21-27)	Duchess of Austria
Death	19 Mar 1305 (age 26-27)	Vienna, Austria

Note on Husband: Philip III +

Philip III (30 April 1245 – 5 October 1285), called the Bold (French: le Hardi), was the King of France, succeeding his father, Louis IX, and reigning from 1270 to 1285. He was a member of the House of Capet.

 

Born in Poissy, to Louis IX (the later Saint Louis) and Margaret of Provence, Philip was prior to his accession Count of Orleans. He accompanied his father on the Eighth Crusade to Tunisia in 1270. His father died at Tunis and there Philip was declared king at the age of 25. Philip was indecisive, soft in nature, timid, and apparently crushed by the strong personalities of his parents and dominated by his father's policies. He was called "the Bold" on the basis of his abilities in combat and on horseback and not his character. He was pious, but not cultivated. He followed the dictates of others, first of Pierre de la Broce and then of his uncle Charles I of Sicily.

 

 

Coronation of Philip III.After his succession, he quickly set his uncle on negotiations with the emir to conclude the crusade, while he himself returned to France. A ten-year truce was concluded and Philip was crowned in France on 12 August 1271. On 21 August, his uncle, Alfonso, Count of Poitou, Toulouse, and Auvergne, died returning from the crusade in Italy. Philip inherited his counties and united them to the royal demesne. The portion of the Auvergne which he inherited became the "Terre royale d'Auvergne", later the Duchy of Auvergne. In accordance with Alfonso's wishes, the Comtat Venaissin was granted to the Pope Gregory X in 1274. Several years of negotiations yielded the Treaty of Amiens with Edward I of England in 1279. Thereby Philip restored to the English the Agenais which had fallen to him with the death of Alfonso. In 1284, Philip also inherited the counties of Perche and Alençon from his brother Pierre.

 

Philip all the while supported his uncle's policy in Italy. When, after the Sicilian Vespers of 1282, Peter III of Aragon invaded and took the island of Sicily, pope Martin IV excommunicated the conqueror and declared his kingdom (put under the suzerainty of the pope by Peter II in 1205) forfeit. He granted Aragon to Charles, Count of Valois, Philip's son. Philip intervened in the Navarrese succession after the death of Henry I of Navarre and married his son, Philip the Fair, to the heiress of Navarre, Joan I.

 

In 1284, Philip and his sons entered Roussillon at the head of a large army. This war, called the Aragonese Crusade from its papal sanction, has been labelled "perhaps the most unjust, unnecessary and calamitous enterprise ever undertaken by the Capetian monarchy."[1] On 26 June 1285, Philip the Bold entrenched himself before Girona in an attempt to besiege it. The resistance was strong, but the city was taken on 7 September. Philip soon experienced a reversal, however, as the French camp was hit hard by an epidemic of dysentery. Philip himself was afflicted. The French retreated and were handily defeated at the Battle of the Col de Panissars. The king of France himself died at Perpignan, the capital of his ally James II of Majorca, and was buried in Narbonne. He currently lies buried with his wife Isabella of Aragon in Saint Denis Basilica in Paris.

 

French Monarchy

Direct Capetians

 

Philip III

Philip IV

Charles III, Count of Valois

Louis d'Evreux

Margaret, Queen of England

Blanche, Duchess of Austria

 

In the Divine Comedy, Dante sees Philip's spirit outside the gates of Purgatory with a number of other contemporary European rulers. Dante does not name Philip directly, but refers to him as "the small-nosed" and "the father of the Pest of France."

 

[edit] Marriage and children

Philip with MarieOn 28 May 1262, Philip married Isabella of Aragon, daughter of James I of Aragon and his second wife Yolande of Hungary, daughter of Andrew II of Hungary, and had the following children:

 

1.Louis (1265 – May 1276). He was poisoned, possibly by orders of his stepmother.

2.Philip IV (1268 – 29 November 1314), successor as king.

3.Robert (1269–1271).

4.Charles (12 March 1270 – 16 December 1325), Count of Valois.

5.Stillborn son (1271).

After Isabella's death, he married on 21 August 1274, Maria of Brabant, daughter of Henry III of Brabant and Adelaide of Burgundy. Their children were:

 

1.Louis (May 1276 – 19 May 1319), Count of Évreux.

2.Blanche (1278 – 19 March 1305, Vienna), married Rudolf III of Austria on 25 May 1300.

3.Margaret (1282 – 14 February 1318), married Edward I of England

Note on Wife: Maria of BRABANT

Marie of Brabant (French: Marie de Brabant; 13 May 1254 – 12 January 1321) was Queen consort of France.

 

Marie was born in Leuven, Brabant. She was a daughter of Henry III, Duke of Brabant, and Adelaide of Burgundy, daughter of Hugh IV, Duke of Burgundy

Marie married on 24 June 1275, to Philip III of France. This was Philip's second marriage, after the death of his first wife, Isabella of Aragon. Isabella had already given birth to three surviving sons: Louis, Philip and Charles.

 

Philip was under the strong influence of his mother, the dowager Queen of France, Margaret of Provence and his minion, surgeon and chamberlain (Chambellan) Pierre de La Broce (or Pierre de Brosse). Not being French, Marie stood out at the French court.

 

In 1276, Philip's son and heir, 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?].

 

[edit] WidowAfter the death of Philip III in 1285, Marie lost some of her political influence, and dedicated her life to her three children. Her stepson, Philip was crowned king of France, as Philip IV, 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.[1]

 

Marie lived right through Philip IV's reign and she had outlived all three children.

 

[edit] IssueMarie and Philip had three children:

 

1.Louis (May 1276 – 19 May 1319), Count of Évreux

2.Blanche (1278 – 19 March 1305, Vienna), married Rudolf III of Austria on 25 May 1300

3.Margaret, married Edward I of England

[edit] DeathMarie died in 1321, aged sixty one, in the monastery at Les Mureaux, near Meulan, where she had withdrawn to in 1316. Marie wasn't buried in 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