Marie Of PONTHIEU

Other Events and Attributes:

• Lineage: Countess of Ponthieu
• Name: Marie
• Fact: 1225, Heiress of Ponthieu and Montreuil

Marie married Simon II DE DAMMARTIN in Sep 1208/11. Simon (son of Albri DE LUZARCHES and Maud Of PONTHIEU) was born about 1180 in Dammartin, Seine-Et-Marne, France; died on 21 Sep 1239 in Abbeville, France; was buried in Valoires, France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Phillippa DE DAMMARTIN was born about 1214 in Aumale, Seine-Maritime, France; died in 1271 in Zutphen, Gelderland, Netherlands.
2. Jeanne DE DAMMARTIN was born between 1208 and 1220; died on 15/16 Mar 1278/9 in Abbeville, France; was buried in Abbey de Valloires.

Family/Spouse: Seigneur de Montmorency Matthew DE MONTGOMERY. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Also Known As: William II Talvas
• Fact: Commanded the right wing for the French at Bouvines, on the Albigensian Crusde

William married Alice Of FRANCE on 20 Aug 1195. Alice (daughter of Louis VII and Alix Of CHAMPAGNE) was born about 1170 in France; died after 18 Jul 1218. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Excerpt from "The Spear and the Spindle": Alice of France was the half sister of Philip II "Augustus," King of France 1180-1223. She was betrothed to Richard the Lion-Heart, son of Henry II and Eleanor of Aquitaine, and sent to England at an early age to be reared in the English ways; however, she was never married to Richrd but eventually taken as a mistress by Richard's father, Henry II. She later m. William II, Count of Poitou. He mother was Alix/Adela/Alice of Champagne, third wife of Louis VII.