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Marie, Countess of Champagne

1145–1198 · 12th century · Also known as Marie de Champagne

Marie was countess of Champagne by her marriage to Henry the Liberal, and the eldest daughter of Louis VII of France and Eleanor of Aquitaine. She acted as regent for her sons and was a leading literary patron, for whom Chrétien de Troyes wrote his Lancelot and Andreas Capellanus his treatise on courtly love. Her court at Troyes made Champagne a centre of French literature.

Marie, Countess of Champagne
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County of Champagne

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