Marie of Champagne, duchess of Burgundy
Overview
Biography
(See also Genealogical Table(s): 2.4.1, 4.1)
Marie was a daughter of Thibaut II, count of Champagne, IV of Blois (1102-52) and the wife of Odo II, duke of Burgundy. After Odo died in 1162, Marie administered the duchy for their son Hugh III from 1162-65. A charter of 1143 records that Thibaut II of Champagne did homage to the duke of Burgundy for the county of Troyes and other lands, and his son and successor Henry I (1152-81) later did the same (Theodore Evergates, Feudal Society in the Bailiage of Troyes under the Counts of Champagne, 1152-1284 [Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University, 1975], 5, 6). Marie and her son Hugh gave rights over the market of Dijon to maintain a lamp burning perpetually before the body of St. Stephen for the repose of Odo's soul, in late 1162 (Ernest Petit, Histoire des Ducs de Bourgogne de la Race Capetienne (Dijon, 1885, 1887), v.2. #390.
Letters from Marie of Champagne, duchess of Burgundy
A letter to Louis VII, King of France (1/1/1163)A letter to Louis VII, King of France (1163-64?)
A letter to Public (1162)
A letter to Public (1163)
A letter to Public (c.1162)