Agnes of Merania (died 1201) was a queen of France.
She is called Marie by some of the French chroniclers.
Biography
Agnes Maria was the daughter of Berthold, Duke of Merania, who was Count of Andechs, a castle and territory near Ammersee, Bavaria.
Her mother was Agnes of Rochlitz.Jiri Louda et Michael MacLagan, Les Dynasties d'Europe, Bordas, 1995. ()
; see also in French, Agnès de Wettin: https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agnès_de_Wettin.
In June 1196 Agnes married Philip II of France, who had repudiated his second wife Ingeborg of Denmark in 1193.
Pope Innocent III espoused the cause of Ingeborg; but Philip did not submit until 1200, when, nine months after interdict had been added to excommunication, he consented to a separation from Agnes.
Agnes died giving birth to their third child in July of the next year, at the castle of Poissy, and was buried in the Convent of St Corentin, near Nantes.
Family
Agnes and Philip had two children: Philip I, Count of Boulogne and Mary,  who were legitimized by the Pope in 1201 at the request of the King.John W. Baldwin, Paris 1200, Stanford University Press, 2010.
Little is known of the personality of Agnes, beyond the remarkable influence which she seems to have exercised over Philip.
Artistic representation
She has been made the heroine of a tragedy by François Ponsard, Agnès de Méranie, and of an opera by Vincenzo Bellini, La straniera.
Notes
References
Endnotes:
See The notes of Robert Davidsohn in Philipp II.
August von Frankreich und Ingeborg (Stuttgart, 1888).
A genealogical notice is furnished by the Chronicon of the monk Alberic (Aubry) of Fontaines, (Albericus Trium Fontium) in Pertz, Scriptores, vol. xxiii. pp.
872 f., and by the Genealogia Wettinensis, ibid.
p. 229.
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