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Alix of France

Female 1160 - 1218  (57 years)


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  1. 1.  Alix of France was born on 4 Oct 1160; died on 18 Jul 1218.

    Other Events and Attributes:

    • Alternate birth: Abt 1170
    • Alternate death: Aft 18 Jul 1218

    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.)"

    Alix married William II Talvas on 20 Aug 1195 in Meudon, Hauts-de-Seine, France. William (son of Jean I of Ponthieu and Beatrice Campdavaine) was born about 1171; died on 4 Oct 1221. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

    Children:
    1. 2. Marie of Ponthieu  Descendancy chart to this point was born before 17 Apr 1199; died in Sep 1250 in Abbeville, Somme, Picardy, France.


Generation: 2

  1. 2.  Marie of Ponthieu Descendancy chart to this point (1.Alix1) was born before 17 Apr 1199; died in Sep 1250 in Abbeville, Somme, Picardy, France.

    Other Events and Attributes:

    • Alternate birth: Between 1195 and 17 Apr 1199
    • Alternate birth: 17 Sep 1199

    Notes:

    Countess of Ponthieu and Montreuil. Also called Jeanne.

    Marie married Simon II de Dammartin in Sep 1208. Simon (son of Aubrey II de Dammartin and Mahaut of Clermont) died on 21 Sep 1239; was buried in Abbey de Valloires, Abbeville, Somme, Picardy, France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

    Children:
    1. 3. Philippa de Dammartin  Descendancy chart to this point died between 14 Apr 1277 and 1281.
    2. 4. Marie de Dammartin  Descendancy chart to this point
    3. 5. Jeanne de Dammartin  Descendancy chart to this point was born about 1220; died on 15 Mar 1279 in Abbeville, Somme, Picardy, France; was buried in Abbey de Valloires, Abbeville, Somme, Picardy, France.


Generation: 3

  1. 3.  Philippa de Dammartin Descendancy chart to this point (2.Marie2, 1.Alix1) died between 14 Apr 1277 and 1281.

    Philippa married Otto II van Gelre in 1253. Otto (son of Gerhard van Gelre and Margareta of Brabant) was born about 1215; died on 10 Jan 1271. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

    Children:
    1. 6. Margareta van Gelre  Descendancy chart to this point died between 1282 and 1287.
    2. 7. Reinald I of Guelders  Descendancy chart to this point was born about 1255; died on 9 Oct 1326.

  2. 4.  Marie de Dammartin Descendancy chart to this point (2.Marie2, 1.Alix1)

    Notes:

    Also called Marie de Ponthieu. Flourished 1236-79.

    Marie married Jean II de Roucy before 15 Dec 1241. Jean died in 1251 in Flanders. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

    Children:
    1. 8. Marie de Roucy  Descendancy chart to this point

  3. 5.  Jeanne de Dammartin Descendancy chart to this point (2.Marie2, 1.Alix1) was born about 1220; died on 15 Mar 1279 in Abbeville, Somme, Picardy, France; was buried in Abbey de Valloires, Abbeville, Somme, Picardy, France.

    Other Events and Attributes:

    • Alternate death: 16 Mar 1279, Abbeville, Somme, Picardy, France

    Notes:

    Countess Of Ponthieu, Montreuil, and Aumale.

    Jeanne married St. Fernando III, King Of Castile, León, Galicia, Toledo, Córdoba, Jaén, and Seville before 31 Oct 1237 in Burgos, Castile, Spain. Fernando (son of Alfonso IX, King of León and Galicia and Berenguela I of Castile, Queen Of Castile & Toledo) was born between Jun 1201 and Jul 1201 in En route between Salamanca and Zamora; was christened before 5 Aug 1201; died on 30 May 1252 in Seville, Andalusia, Spain; was buried in Cathedral Santa María, Seville, Andalusia, Spain. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

    Children:
    1. 9. Eleanor of Castile, Queen Consort of England  Descendancy chart to this point was born in 1240; died on 28 Nov 1290 in Hardby, Nottinghamshire, England; was buried in Westminster Abbey, Westminster, Middlesex, England.


Generation: 4

  1. 6.  Margareta van Gelre Descendancy chart to this point (3.Philippa3, 2.Marie2, 1.Alix1) died between 1282 and 1287.

    Family/Spouse: Dietrich VIII von Kleve. Dietrich (son of Dietrich VII von Kleve and Aleidis von Heinsberg) was born between 1256 and 1257; died on 4 Oct 1305. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

    Children:
    1. 10. Otto von Kleve  Descendancy chart to this point was born about 1278; died on 29 Sep 1310.

  2. 7.  Reinald I of Guelders Descendancy chart to this point (3.Philippa3, 2.Marie2, 1.Alix1) was born about 1255; died on 9 Oct 1326.

    Notes:

    Count of Guelders and Zutphen.

    Reinald married Marguerite van Vlaanderen on 3 Jul 1286 in Namur, Wallonia, Belgium. Marguerite (daughter of Guy de Dampierre and Isabelle of Luxembourg) died about 1328. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

    Children:
    1. 11. Margarethe ven Gelre  Descendancy chart to this point died on 26 Jun 1333.
    2. 12. Reinald II of Guelders  Descendancy chart to this point was born about 1295; died on 12 Oct 1343 in Arnheim, Gelderland, Netherlands.

  3. 8.  Marie de Roucy Descendancy chart to this point (4.Marie3, 2.Marie2, 1.Alix1)

    Notes:

    Also called Mathilde de Roucy.

    Family/Spouse: Jean I de Garlande. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

    Children:
    1. 13. Alix de Garlande  Descendancy chart to this point was born between 1296 and 1301; died before 1361.

  4. 9.  Eleanor of Castile, Queen Consort of England Descendancy chart to this point (5.Jeanne3, 2.Marie2, 1.Alix1) was born in 1240; died on 28 Nov 1290 in Hardby, Nottinghamshire, England; was buried in Westminster Abbey, Westminster, Middlesex, England.

    Other Events and Attributes:

    • Alternate birth: 1241, Burgos, Castile, Spain
    • Alternate birth: Abt 1241

    Notes:

    Countess of Ponthieu.

    Eleanor of Castile, first wife of Edward I, was a daughter of Ferdinand III, King of Castile, Leon, and Galicia, and the French noblewoman Jeanne de Dammartin, suo jure Countess of Ponthieu. Although her marriage (in 1254) to then-prince Edward was a political match designed to affirm English control of Gascony, the couple were unusually close; she even accompanied Edward on the Fourth Crusade, where he was wounded at Acre in Palestine. She was notably well-educated and maintained her own scriptorium, the only one in northern Europe at the time. Her preference for Spanish-style home decorations, kitchen utensils, and personal comforts had a great influence on English domestic life. She brought a considerable personal fortune to her marriage, and increased it all her life through shrewd purchases of lands and manors. Although this had a negative effect on her personal popularity, her husband always encouraged her in it.

    Her heart was buried in the Dominican priory of Blackfriars in London, along with that of her son Alphonso. Her entrails were buried in Lincoln Cathedral.

    Eleanor married Edward I, King of England on 18 Oct 1254 in Abbey of Santa María la Real de Las Huelgas, Burgos, Castile, Spain. Edward (son of Henry III, King of England and Eleanor of Provence, Queen Consort of England) was born on 17 Jun 1239 in Westminster Palace, Westminster, Middlesex, England; was christened on 21 Jun 1239; died on 7 Jul 1307 in Burgh-by-Sands, Carlisle, Cumberland, England; was buried in Westminster Abbey, Westminster, Middlesex, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

    Children:
    1. 14. Joan of Acre  Descendancy chart to this point was born in 1272 in Acre, Palestine; died on 23 Apr 1307 in Clare, Suffolk, England; was buried in Austin Friars, Clare, Suffolk, England.
    2. 15. Margaret of England  Descendancy chart to this point was born on 15 Mar 1275 in Windsor, Berkshire, England; died after 11 Mar 1333 in Brabant; was buried in St. Gudule, Brussels, Flanders.
    3. 16. Elizabeth of England  Descendancy chart to this point was born on 7 Aug 1282 in Rhuddlan Castle, Flintshire, Wales; died on 5 May 1316 in Quendon, Essex, England; was buried in Walden Abbey, Essex, England.
    4. 17. Edward II, King of England  Descendancy chart to this point was born on 25 Apr 1284 in Caenarfon, Gwynedd, Wales; died on 21 Sep 1327 in Berkeley Castle, Berkeley, Gloucestershire, England; was buried in Abbey of St. Peter, Gloucester, Gloucestershire, England.


 

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