FRANCE, Countess Constance

Abt 1124 - 1176  (52 years)  Submit Photo / Document

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• Name	FRANCE, Constance
  Prefix	Countess
  Birth	Abt 1124	Rheims, Marne, France
  Gender	Female
  Death	16 Aug 1176	Champagne, Dordogne, Aquitaine, France
  Burial	16 Aug 1177	Paris, Île-de-France, Francia
  WAC	26 May 1899
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  Person ID	I46180	Joseph Smith Sr and Lucy Mack Smith
  Last Modified	19 Aug 2021

  
  

  Father	FRANCE, Louis VI ,   b. 7 Dec 1081, Paris, Île-de-France, Frankreich Paris, Île-de-France, Frankreichd. 1 Aug 1137, Bethizy Castle, Paris, Seine, France (Age 55 years)
  Mother	SAVOY, Countess Alix Adelaid ,   b. 18 Nov 1092, Saint-Jean-De-Maurienne, Savoie, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France Saint-Jean-De-Maurienne, Savoie, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, Franced. 18 Nov 1154, Abbey Saint-Pierre, Montmartre, Paris, Île-de-France, France (Age 62 years)
  Marriage	Apr 1115	Paris, France
  Family ID	F24089	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	CHAMPAGNE, Count Eustace ,   b. Abt 1135, Blois, Jura, Franche-Comté, France Blois, Jura, Franche-Comté, Franced. 10 Aug 1153, Boulogne, Pas-de-Calais, Nord-Pas-de-Calais, France (Age 18 years)
  Marriage	Paris, France
  Family ID	F24114	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	24 Jan 2022

  
  

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  Constance of France (1124–1176) was the only daughter of Louis VI of France and his second wife Adélaide de Maurienne. She is also known as Constance Capet. Constance's elder siblings included: Louis VII of France, Philip, Henri, Robert I Capet, another Philip and Peter II of Courtenay. In 1140, Constance married Eustace IV, Count of Boulogne. Eustace was knighted in 1147, at which date he was probably from sixteen to eighteen years of age. In 1151 he joined Constance‘s brother Louis in an abortive raid upon Normandy, which had accepted the title of the Empress Matilda, and was now defended by her husband, Geoffrey Plantagenet, Count of Anjou. The couple had only one child, a daughter named EUSTACHIA who married Anselme the count of St Pol. Eustace died in 1153, aged between 17–26. In 1154, Constance remarried after being a widow for a year. She married Raymond V, Count of Toulouse, being his first wife. Raymond was implicated in the Cathar crisis. In 1176, Guilhem, the Bishop of Albi organized the council of Lombers, attended by both clerics and princes, including Raymond of Trencavel, Raymond V, and Constance, and the representatives of the Cathars. The crisis later led to the Albigensian Crusade. Raymond and Constance had five children together, they were: Raymond VI, who succeeded his father Aubri, died 1180 Azalais of Toulouse Baldwin of Toulouse, born 1165, executed on the orders of Raymond VI in 1214 Laura (died in 1230), wife of Odo of Comminger As Raymond was related to Constance within prohibited degrees, they were separated by ecclesiastical authority in 1165. Constance died in 1176, aged 51–52 by which time her brother Louis was king of France.