Marie (Ponthieu) de Ponthieu (abt. 1197 - 1250)

Born about 1197 in France

Ancestors

Wife of Simon (Dammartin) de Dammartin — married about 1212 in Aumale, Seine-Maritime, France

Descendants

Died Sep 1250 at about age 53 in Abbeville, Somme, Picardie, France

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Biography

Marie was the daughter of William III, Count of Ponthieu and Alice, Countess of the Vexin, and granddaughter of King Louis VII of France by his second wife Constance of Castile.^[1] As her father's only surviving child, Marie succeeded him, ruling as Countess of Ponthieu and Montreuil from 1221 to 1251.

She married before September 1208 Simon de Dammartin a younger son of Alberic II de Dammartin and Mathilde de Clermont.^[1]

Among their children were:

1. Jeanne (died 16 March 1279), second wife of Ferdinand III of Castile.^[1] Through her granddaughter Eleanor of Castile she is an ancestor of the British royal family.
2. Philippa (died 1277/81) who married firstly Raoul II d' Issoudun, secondly Raoul II de Coucy, and thirdly Otto II, Count Geldern.
3. Marie (died after 1279), married Jean II de Roucy.
4. A daughter married to Jean viscount of Châtellerault. (Medieval Lands shows her name as Mathilde citing a charter of 1256. Parsons writes that the daughter of that name died before 1237 when her parents made a donation on her behalf. It could be possible there were two daughters named Mathilde, one born after the death of the first. Parsons gives the wife of Châtellerault the name Agnès. Confusion in some secondary sources give her the name Agatha and as having married Aimery of Châtellerault, but in reality Aimery and Agatha were the names of her husband Jean's parents.)

Marie's husband Simon allied himself with his brother Renaud and John Lackland combatting King Philippe II at Bouvines in July 1214. For this betrayal he and his wife were punished by the king, with a loss of lands and revenue. A reconciliation of the couple to the French crown occurred at about the time of the death of Marie's father Guillaume the Count of Ponthieu in 1225, when Marie and her children were recognized to be the rightful heirs to the county; Simon making his own submission circa 1230.

Following the death of her first husband, Marie married secondly sometime between September 1240 and 15 December 1241, Mathieu de Montmorency, Seigneur d'Attichy, who was killed during the Battle of Mansourah fought from 8 to 11 February 1250 during the Seventh Crusade led by King Louis IX of France.

Biographie

Marie de Ponthieu (av.1199 † 1250), fut comtesse de Ponthieu de 1221 à 1250. Elle était fille de Guillaume II, comte de Ponthieu, et d'Adèle de France.

Probablement sous l'influence de Philippe II Auguste, elle épousa en septembre 1208 Simon de Dammartin (1180 † 1239), déjà comte d'Aumale. Vers 1211, Simon de Dammartin et son frère Renaud trahirent Philippe Auguste et s'allièrent à Jean sans Terre, roi d'Angleterre. Ils combattirent tous deux à Bouvines, Renaud fut fait prisonnier et Simon s'enfuit et s'exila. Le roi de France s'empara des biens de Simon, ainsi que du Ponthieu lorsque Marie en hérita. Ce n'est qu'en 1230 que Simon fit sa soumission et que les époux purent récupérer leurs domaines. Les deux époux sont cités le 2 mai 1230 lorsqu'il confirment la donation d'une propriété à l'abbaye Notre Dame d'Ourscamp. De ce premier mariage naquirent :

1. Jeanne († 1279), comtesse de Ponthieu et d'Aumale ;
2. Philippe († 1278/81), mariée à Raoul de Lusignan († 1246), comte d'Eu, puis à Raoul († 1250), sire de Coucy, et à Otton II († 1271), comte de Gueldre ;
3. Marie († après 1279), mariée à Jean II de Pierrepont († 1251), comte de Roucy ;
4. Une fille mariée à Jean vicomte de Châtellerault, nommée Agnès ou Mathilde.

Veuve, Marie se remarie vers 1240 avec Mathieu de Montmorency († 1250 Mansourah), seigneur d'Atichy, fils de Mathieu II, baron de Montmorency, et de Gertrude de Soissons.

Elle meurt en septembre 1250.

Research notes

A post by the genealogist John Carmi Parsons to the Soc Gen-Medieval newsgroup dated 18 February 1999 (subject line Re: Alais de France) includes detailed information about the children of Marie de Ponthieu and Simon de Dammartin. He names and indicates the correct order of birth for the four daughters who married, as well as other pertinent information.^[2]

In a posting to the Soc Gen-Medieval newsgroup dated 17 February 1999 from John Carmi Parsons, he notes from charter evidence that Marie's birth can be placed between 1196 when her parents were childless and 1198 when she occurs as their heir. The 17 Apr 1199 date imported into this profile from a gedcom is unsourced. From the French Wikipedia article this was the date before which Marie was known to have been born, and consequently has been replaced here by circa 1197.^[3]

Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1 1.2} G. W. Watson, "The Seize Quartiers of Eleanor (of Castile) Queen Consort to Edward I." The Genealogist New Series XI (1895) Internet Archive Table XIII p. 31, Additions to table XIII pp. 34-36
2. ↑ Re: Alais de France. John Carmi Parsons, Soc Gen-Medieval, 18 Feb 1999.
3. ↑ Re: Norman/Angevin queries. John Carmi Parsons, Soc Gen-Medieval, 17 Feb 1999.

• Histoire généalogique et chronologique de la Maison royale de France, Tome III, Anselme de Sainte-Marie, Les Libraires Associés, 1726-1733. Pages 302-304.
• "Royal Ancestry" 2013, Douglas Richardson Vol. III. p. 24
• The Complete Peerage
• Comtes de Clermont de Clermont
• Charles Cawley,Medieval Lands, Comtes of Ponthieu
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marie,_Countess_of_Ponthieu
• http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marie_de_Ponthieu

Acknowledgments

• Thank you to Andrew White for creating WikiTree profile Ponthieu-86 through the import of APW_2013-03-26.ged on Mar 26, 2013.