| Name |
Marie de Coucy |
| Birth |
1218 |
Boves, Somme, Picardie, France  |
| Gender |
Female |
| Fact 1 |
According to the chronicler Matthew Paris, she was beautiful and very wealthy. |
| Fact 2 |
great-great granddaughter of Louis VI of France |
| Fact 3 |
Marie's marriage to Alexander II of Scotland brought an alliance between the Scots and the Coucy lordship, and for the rest of the 13th century they exchanged soldiers and money. She brought a large train of French followers to Scotland. In her retinue |
| Title of Nobility |
1239 |
| Queen Consort of Scotland |
| Note 1 |
8 Jul 1249 |
| Immediately after the news of her husband Alexander II's death reached her, Marie made sure her 8-year-old son was crowned as soon as possible at Scone. Although her son was a minor and was placed under regency, Marie did not become regent. |
| Note 3 |
1250 |
Picardie, France |
| She returned to Picardie and, for the rest of her life, she divided her time between France and Scotland. |
| Note 2 |
9 Jun 1250 |
Dunfermline, Fife, Scotland |
| Marie and her son Alexander III were present in Dunfermline for the observance of the canonisation of Saint Margaret of Scotland and the transference of her remains to the new shrine. |
| Note 4 |
1252 |
York, Yorkshire, England |
| She attended the wedding in York of her son Alexander III and Margaret of England with a great entourage of French and Scottish nobles. |
| Title of Nobility |
1260 |
| Member of the Royal Council. The rivalries between the Scottish factions for influence during the minority of her son made the situation in Scotland critical, and Marie and her spouse were therefore named members of the Royal Council during the remainin |
| Note 5 |
1268 |
| Marie separated from her spouse and returned to Scotland. |
| Note 7 |
From 1275 to 1276 |
Canterbury, Kent, England |
| She made a pilgrimage to the shrine of Saint Thomas Becket in Canterbury. |
| Note 6 |
Feb 1275 |
| When her daughter-in-law Margaret of England died in February 1275, Marie arranged the new marriage between her son and Yolande, the stepdaughter of her spouse. |
| _FSFTID |
93PZ-1JZ |
| _UID |
F947F263A46F9043B0AD5F8B1A02ED4F1A2F |
| Death |
1285 |
Roxburgh, Roxburghshire, Scotland |
| Burial |
1285 |
Newbattle, Midlothian, Scotland |
| Person ID |
I33391 |
Ken Tree |
| Last Modified |
3 Nov 2019 |
| Father |
Enguerrand III de Coucy, Lord of Coucy, b. 1182, Marle, Laon, Aisne, Picardie, France d. 1242, Aisne, Picardie, France (Age 60 years) |
| Mother |
Marie de Montmirel-en-Brie, b. 1184, Oisy, Aisne, Picardie, France d. Abt 1267, Longpont, Aisne, Picardie, France (Age 83 years) |
| _UID |
3360997AF47A78458D77B857CB030426DC3A |
| Family ID |
F15127 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
1218 - 1285 (67 years)