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Marie of Champagne

Marie of Champagne
Latin Empress consort of Constantinople
Tenure9 May 1204 – 9 August 1204
Bornc. 1174
Died(1204-08-29)29 August 1204 (aged 29–30)
Acre, Kingdom of Jerusalem
SpouseBaldwin I, Latin Emperor
House
FatherHenry I, Count of Champagne
MotherMarie of France

Marie of Champagne (c. 1174 – 29 August 1204[1] was the first Latin empress of Constantinople by marriage to Emperor Baldwin I. She acted as regent of Flanders during the absence of her spouse from 1202 until 1204.

  1. ^ Alberic of Trois-Fontaines, Chronica s.a. 1204 (= L. Weiland (ed.), Monum. German. Histor.: Scriptores XXIII, Hannover, 1874, p. 884 Archived 1 February 2018 at the Wayback Machine), Ralph of Coggeshall, Chronicon Anglicanum s.a. 1204 (= Monum. German. Histor.: Scriptores XXVII, Hannover, 1885, p. 354 Archived 2 February 2018 at the Wayback Machine), Renier of St Laurent, Annales s.a. 1204 (= G.H. Pertz (ed.), Monum. German. Histor.: Scriptores XVI, Hannover, 1858, p. 658 Archived 2 February 2018 at the Wayback Machine), Sigebert of Gembloux, Continuatio Bergensis s.a. 1203 (= G.H. Pertz (ed.), Monum. German. Histor.: Scriptores VI, Hannover, 1844, p. 438 Archived 2 February 2018 at the Wayback Machine), Flandria generosa (Continuatio Claromariscensis) 12 (= L.C. Bethmann (ed.), Monum. German. Histor.: Scriptores IX, Hannover, 1861, p. 330 Archived 1 February 2018 at the Wayback Machine), Liber Obituum Ecclesie Beati Petri Insulensis (= É. Hautcœur (ed.), Documents liturgiques et nécrologiques de l'église collégiale de Saint-Pierre de Lille, Lille - Paris, 1895, p. 177), Necrologium Ecclesiæ Collegiatæ Beati Petri Insulensis (= É. Hautcœur (ed.), Documents liturgiques et nécrologiques de l'église collégiale de Saint-Pierre de Lille, Lille - Paris, 1895, p. 313). Philippe Mouskes, Chronique rimée, edited by Frédéric Auguste Ferdinand Thomas de Reiffenberg, vol. 2 (Brussels, 1838), vv. 20375–20380, p. 305).

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