Princess Margaret FRANCE

   Other names for Margaret were FRANCE Princess, HUNGARY Queen, MAGYARORSZAG Queen and Marguerite.

   Ancestral File Number: 8XJ4-43.

   General Notes:

Princess of FRANCE, Queen of HUNGARY or MAGYARORSZAG.

BOOKS
Kings and Queens of Europe, Genealogical Chart, Anne Taute and Romilly Squire, Taute 1989: "Marguerite, Daughter of Louis VII and Constancia Castilla, Mar =2 Bela III King of Magyarorszag, Died 1197."

Kings and Queens of Great Britain, Genealogical Chart, Anne Taute and Romilly Squire, Taute, 1990: "Henry, The Young King, Crowned 1170 & 1172, Duke of Normandy, Count of Anjou, Mar Margaret Daughter of Louis VII King of France, Died 1198."

The Political History of England George Burton Adams 1066-1216, Longmans Green and Co, 1905
p267: [1158] "...It was probably the death of his brother and the question of the occupation of Nantes that led Henry to cross to Normandy in August. He went first of all, however, to meet the king of France near Gisors. There it was agreed that Henry's son Henry, now by the death of his eldest brother recognized as heir to the throne, should marry Louis' daughter Margaret. The children were still both infants, but the arrangement was made less for their sakes than for peace between their fathers and for substantial advantages which Henry hoped to gain. First he desired Louis' permission to take possession of Nantes, and later, on the actual marriage of the children, was to come the restoration of the Norman Vexin which Henry's father had been obliged to give up to France in the troubles of his time..."
p271: [1160] "...Henry saw the probable results, and at once responded [to the marriage of Louis VII and Alice of Champagne] with an effort to improve his frontier defences. The marriage of the young Henry and Margaret of France was immediately celebrated, though the elder of the two was still a mere infant. This marriage gave Henry the right to take possession of the Norman Vexin and its strong castles, and this he did..."
p338: [1183] "The death of young Henry led at once to annoying questions raised by Philip of France. His sister Margaret was now a widow without children, and he had some right to demend that the lands which had been ceded by France to Normandy as her marriage portion should be restored. These were the Norman Vexin and the important frontier fortress of Gisors...[Geoffrey] replied to Philip that the cession of the Vexin had been final and that there could be no question of its return. Philip was not easily satisfied, and there was much negotiation before a treaty on the subjectwas finally made at the beginning of December, 1183. At a conference near Gisors Henry did homage to Philip for all his French possessions, a liberal pension was accepted for Margaret in lieu of her dower lands, and the king of France recognized the permanence of the cession to Normandy on the condition that Gisors should go to one of the sons of Henry on his marriage with Adela which was once more promised. This marriage in the end never took place, but the Vexin remained a Normanpossession..."
Ch XVI, p346: [1186] "...The question of Margaret's dower lands- the return of the Norman Vexin- and of the payment of her money allowance, complicated now by her second marriage to Bela, king of Hungary..."

Eleanor of Aquitaine the Mother Queen, Desmond Seward, 1978, Dorset Press, p62:
"Margaret Daughter of Constance of CASTILE and Louis VII King of FRANCE, Married (1) 1160 Henry, Son of Henry II King of ENGLAND, (2) 1186 Bela III of HUNGARY."

The Lives of the Kings and Queens of England, Antonia Fraser, Alfred A Knopf, 1975, p25: "Margaret of France, died 1198..."

ANCESTRAL FILE
Ancestral File Ver 4.10 8XJ4-43 Margaret FRANCE Princess Mar 1160, 8WKQ-0W Marguerite Born 1156, LKQE EofA Margaret, IGI Birth T990177-3-1260732 Marguerite Born 1158, 8WKQ-0W Margaret HUNGARY Mar 1173.

INTERNATIONAL GENEALOGICAL INDEX
IGI Birth T990177-3-1260732 Marguerite Princess of FRANCE Father Louis VII King of FRANCE Mother Constanza Princess of CASTILE 1158 Paris Seine France.

IGI Marriage T990246-49-1260879 Marguerite Princess of FRANCE Spouse Bela III King of HUNGARY 1186 Paris Seine France.

   Marriage Information:

Margaret married Prince Henry ENGLAND, son of King Henry ENGLAND, II and Queen Eleanor Aquitaine ENGLAND, on 2 Nov 1160-1173 in Neubourg, Manche, Normandy, France. (Prince Henry ENGLAND was born on 28 Mar 1155 in Palace, Bermandsey, London, Middlesex, England, died on 11 Jun 1183 in Castle, Mortel, Turenne, Correze, France and was buried in Rouen, Seine-Maritime, France.)

   Marriage Information:

Margaret also married King Bela Magyarorszag HUNGARY, III, son of King Geza Magyarorszag HUNGARY, II, in 1185-1186 in Paris, Seine, France. (King Bela Magyarorszag HUNGARY, III died in 1196.)