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- BIOGRAPHY
Marguerite d'Artois, heiress of Brie-Comte-Robert, was born about 1285, the eldest child of Philippe d'Artois, sire de Conches, de Nonancourt et de Domfront, and Blanche de Bretagne. In 1298, when Marguerite was thirteen, her father died of the wounds he had received at the Battle of Furnes in which he had fought a year earlier.
About 1300 at the hôtel d'Evreux in Paris, Marguerite married Louis, comte d'Evreux et d'Etampes, son of Philippe III 'le Hardi', king of France, and his second wife Marie of Brabant. They had two sons and three daughters who would all make good marriages and have progeny. Her son Philippe became king of Navarre by his marriage to Jeanne II de France, queen of Navarre.
Marguerite died in Paris on 24 April 1311 and is buried in the église des Jacobins, with her husband and her five children. She was the first of her parents' surviving children to die; her surviving siblings died elderly, but Marguerite died aged twenty five or twenty six.
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