Marie de Coucy

For other people named Marie de Coucy, see Marie de Coucy (disambiguation).

Marie de Coucy (c. 1218 – 1285) was the daughter of Enguerrand III, Lord of Coucy and his third wife Marie de Montmirel (c. 1184–1267). She was Queen consort of the Kingdom of Scotland.

Biography

On 15 May 1239 she married King Alexander II of Scotland at Roxburgh, by whom she gave birth to the future King, Alexander III of Scotland. The marriage brought an alliance between the Scots and the Coucy lordship, and for the rest of the 13th century, they exchanged soldiers and money. Her husband died in 1249, and so two years later she returned to Picardy, although she would frequently revisit the Kingdom of Scotland. She has also visited Canterbury on pilgrimage in 1275–76.

Her second husband was Jean de Brienne, Grand Butler of France, whom she married sometime before 1257. She was his second wife. They had no children together, however, de Brienne had a daughter Blanche by his first wife Jeanne, Dame de Chateaudun.

Marie de Coucy died in 1285.

Ancestry

Family of Marie de Coucy

16. Thomas, Lord of Coucy 8. Enguerrand II, Lord of Coucy 17. Mélisende de Crècy 4. Ralph I, Lord of Coucy 18. Ralph I, Lord of Beaugency 9. Agnès de Beaugency 19. Mathilde de Vermandois 2. Enguerrand III, Lord of Coucy 20. Louis VI of France 10. Robert I, Count of Dreux 21. Adelaide of Maurienne 5. Alix de Dreux 22. Guy de Baudement 11. Agnes de Baudemont, Countess of Braine 23. Alix, Dame de Braine 1. Marie de Coucy 24. Helie, Seigneur de Montmirail 12. Andre I, Seigneur de Montmirail 25. Adelaide de Pleure 6. Jean I, Seigneur de Montmirail 26. Simon d'Oisy, Châtelain de Cambrai 13. Hildiarde d'Oisy, Viscountess de Meaux 27. Ade de la Ferté-Ancoul 3. Marie de Montmirel 28. Guy I, Seigneur de Dampierre 14. William I, Seigneur de Dampierre 29. Helvide de Baudémont 7. Helvide de Dampierre 30. Dreux IV, Seigneur de Mouchy 15. Ermengarde de Mouchy 31. Adélaïde

References

• Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists Who Came to America Before 1700, by Frederick Lewis Weis, Line 120-30
• Joseph Bain (ed) Calendar of documents relating to Scotland, volume 2.
• Brown, Michael, The Wars of Scotland, 1214-1371, (Edinburgh, 2004)