Alix of France

1160 - 1218  (57 years)

• Name	Alix of France
  Birth	4 Oct 1160  [1, 2]
  Gender	Female
  Alternate birth	Abt 1170  [3, 4]
  Death	18 Jul 1218  [3]
  Alternate death	Aft 18 Jul 1218  [1, 4]
  Siblings	1 sibling
  1. Margaret of France, Titular Queen Consort of England; Queen Consort of Hungary and Croatia ,   b. 1157   d. Aft 10 Sep 1197, Acre, Palestine  (Age > 40 years) ▻ Béla III, King of Hungary, Croatia, Dalmatia, and Rama ,  m. 1186 ;  Henry the Young King, Titular King of England ,  m. 27 Aug 1172   2. Alix of France ,   b. 4 Oct 1160   d. 18 Jul 1218  (Age 57 years) ▻ William II Talvas ,  m. 20 Aug 1195
  Person ID	I3572	Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others
  Last Modified	7 Jan 2022

  
  

  Father	Louis VII, King of France,   b. 1120   d. 18 Sep 1180, Paris, France (Age 60 years)
  Mother	Constance of Castile, Queen Consort of France,   b. Aft 1140   d. 4 Oct 1160, France (Age < 18 years)
  Marriage	10 Nov 1153	Cathedral of Sant-Croix, Orléans, Loiret, France   [5, 6, 7]
  Family ID	F2941	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	William II Talvas,   b. Abt 1171   d. 4 Oct 1221 (Age ~ 50 years)
  Marriage	20 Aug 1195	Meudon, Hauts-de-Seine, France   [8, 9, 10]
  Children	1. Marie of Ponthieu,   b. Bef 17 Apr 1199   d. Sep 1250, Abbeville, Somme, Picardy, France (Age > 51 years)
  Family ID	F4827	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	7 Jan 2022

  
  

• Notes

  Also Aalez; Aaliz; Aelois; Aalis; Aalaidis; Alais. Countess of Vexin. Ancestral Roots has her as a daughter of Louis VII by his third wife Adèle of Blois (whom they call "Alix of Champagne"); Richardson's Royal Ancestry, with evidently better documentation, has her as a daughter of Louis by his second wife, Constance of Castile. But Szabolcs de Vajay's comprehensive 1989 survey of the Iberian Burgundians, "From Alfonso VII to Alfonso X: The First Two Centuries of the Burgundian Dynasty in Castile and Leon -- A Prosopographical Catalogue in Social Genealogy, 1100-1300" (in Studies in Genealogy and Family History in Tribute to Charles Evans on the Occasion of His Eightieth Birthday ed. Lindsay L. Brook. Salt Lake City: Association for the Promotion of Scholarship in Genealogy, 1989) says that Constance of Castile's daughter Adelaide by Louis VII died in infancy. We're going with Richardson on the (weak) basis of his research being more recent. Update: Peter Stewart, on SGM in October 2016, argued here, here, and here that "Alberic of Troisfontaines specified that Alix, the wife of Guillaume of Ponthieu, was the daughter of Louis VII by his Spanish second wife ('rex iste Ludovicus de prima uxore sua Alienor, quam dimisit, duas habuit filias ... De secunda quoque uxore, que fuit Hyspana, duas similiter habuit filias, primo reginam Margaretam Anglie et comitissam Aaliz, quam duxit Guilelmus comes de Pontivo')," and that there is no good reason to doubt this, particularly since if Alix had been a daughter of Louis VII's third wife, "Alix would have been (on her supposed mother's side) a third cousin of Richard, by common descent from William the Conqueror." Stewart also argues that Alix cannot have married William II Talvas before August 1195 (rather than 1185 as stated in AR8) "because she was detained in England by Henry II for some years after the rupture in 1191 of her long betrothal to his son Richard. (She had been sent to England as Richard's promised bride in 1174.)"

  
  

• Sources

  [S142] Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families by Douglas Richardson. Salt Lake City, 2013. [S6193] John P. DuLong and Jean Bunot, "Catherine de Baillon's de Roye Ancestry: Another Royal Gateway." Michigan's Habitant Heritage 30:5, Jan 2009., month and year only. [S145] Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists Who Came to America Before 1700 by Frederick Lewis Weis and Walter Lee Sheppard, Jr. 8th edition, William R. Beall & Kaleen E. Beall, eds. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Company, 2004, 2006, 2008. [S1526] The Ancestry of Dorothea Poyntz, Wife of Reverend John Owsley, Generations 1-15, Fourth Preliminary Edition, by Ronny O. Bodine and Bro. Thomas Spalding, Jr. 2013. [S142] Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families by Douglas Richardson. Salt Lake City, 2013., "1154". [S145] Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists Who Came to America Before 1700 by Frederick Lewis Weis and Walter Lee Sheppard, Jr. 8th edition, William R. Beall & Kaleen E. Beall, eds. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Company, 2004, 2006, 2008., "1154". [S858] Szabolcs de Vajay, "From Alfonso VII to Alfonso X: The First Two Centuries of the Burgundian Dynasty in Castile and Leon -- A Prosopographical Catalogue in Social Genealogy, 1100-1300." Studies in Genealogy and Family History in Tribute to Charles Evans on the Occasion of His Eightieth Birthday ed. Lindsay L. Brook. Salt Lake City: Association for the Promotion of Scholarship in Genealogy, 1989. [S1381] Peter Stewart, 13 Oct 2016, post to soc.genealogy.medieval., year only. [S1526] The Ancestry of Dorothea Poyntz, Wife of Reverend John Owsley, Generations 1-15, Fourth Preliminary Edition, by Ronny O. Bodine and Bro. Thomas Spalding, Jr. 2013., date only. [S6193] John P. DuLong and Jean Bunot, "Catherine de Baillon's de Roye Ancestry: Another Royal Gateway." Michigan's Habitant Heritage 30:5, Jan 2009.