Margaret of Clermont
{{Infobox royalty
| succession = Countess of Amiens (Regnant)
| reign = 1118-1132
| predecessor = Renaud II, Count of Clermont-en-Beauvaisis
| birth_date = 1104/05
| death_date = 1132
| spouse = Charles I, Count of Flanders
Hugh II, Count of Saint-Pol
Baldwin of Encre
Thierry, Count of Flanders
| issue = Raoul
Guy
Elisabeth
Laurette
| house = House of Clermont
| father = Renaud II, Count of Clermont-en-Beauvaisis
| mother = Adelaide, Countess of Vermandois
| succession1 = Countess of Flanders
| reign1 = 1115-1127
| succession2 = Countess of Flanders
| reign2 = -1132
| succession3 = Countess of Saint-Pol
| reign3 = 1128-
}}
Margaret of Clermont ({{langx|fr|Marguerite}}; 1104/05 – 1132) was a countess consort of Flanders twice by marriage to Charles I, Count of Flanders and Thierry, Count of Flanders. She was ruling suo jure countess regnant of Amiens 1118–1132.
Life
Her parents were Renaud II, Count of Clermont-en-Beauvaisis and his first wife, Adelaide, Countess of Vermandois (daughter of Herbert IV, Count of Vermandois).Margaret’s parents are mentioned in the chronicles called Vita Karoli Comitis Flandriæ and De Genere Comitum Flandrensium.{{sfn|Galbert de Bruges|2013|p=42}}
Margaret was first married to Charles I, Count of Flanders in 1115. As a dowry, she received the county of Amiens. The marriage was brief and childless.{{sfn|Galbert de Bruges|2013|p=42}}
Later, c. 1128, Margaret married Hugh II, Count of Saint-Pol,{{Cite book |last=Dusevel |first=Hyacinthe |title=History of the city of Amiens: from the Gauls, until 1830 vol. 1 |publisher=Machart |year=1832}} they had two sons, Raoul, and Guy.{{sfn|Galbert de Bruges|2013|p=42}}
Her third husband was Baldwin of Encre.{{sfn|Galbert de Bruges|2013|p=42}} They had one daughter, Elisabeth (died after 1189) who later married Gautier III, Lord of Heilly.{{sfn|Galbert de Bruges|2013|p=42}}
Her fourth and final husband was Thierry, Count of Flanders.{{Cite book |last=Moréri |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=OCM-AAAAcAAJ&dq=Thierry+d%27Alsace++Marguerite+de+Clermont&pg=PA86 |title=Le grand dictionnaire historique, ou, Le mélange curieux de l'histoire sacrée et profane: qui contient, en abrégé l'histoire fabuleuse des dieux & des héros de l'Antiquité payenne, les vies et les actions remarquables des patriarches [...], l'établissement et le progrès des ordres religieux & militaires, & la vie de leurs fondateurs, les généalogies de plusieurs familles illustres de France, & d'autres pays, la description des empires [...], l'histoire des conciles généraux et particuliers, sous le nom des lieux où ils ont été tenus [...] tirées de differens auteurs, & surtout du Dictionnaire Critique de Mr. Bayle |date=1732 |publisher=chez Jean Brandmuller |language=fr}}{{Cite book |last=Sainte-Marie |first=Anselme de |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=eYPq3RQVh5EC&dq=Thierry+d%27Alsace++Marguerite+de+Clermont&pg=PA721 |title=Histoire généalogique et chronologique de la Maison Royale de France, des pairs, des grands officiers de la Couronne & de la Maison du Roy : & des anciens barons du Royaume... Par le P. Anselme,... continuée par M. Du Fourny. Troisième édition, revûë, corrigée & augmentée par les soins du P. Ange & du P. Simplicien... |date=1726 |publisher=par la compagnie des libraires associez |language=fr}}{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=LS4sAAAAIAAJ&dq=Thierry+d%27Alsace++Marguerite+de+Clermont&pg=PA22 |title=L'Univers: histoire et description de tous les peuples ... |date=1844 |publisher=F. Didot fréres |language=fr}}{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1eEPAAAAQAAJ&dq=Thierry+d%27Alsace++Marguerite+de+Clermont&pg=PA481 |title=Nouveau dictionnaire de la conversation: ou répertoire universel de toutes les connaissances nécessaires, utiles ou agréables dans la vie sociale, et relatives aux sciences, aux lettres, aux arts, a l'histoire, a la géographie, etc., avec des notices sur les principaux personnages, morts et vivants, de tous les pays, sur le plan du conversation's lexicon |date=1842 |publisher=Librairie Historique-Artistique |language=fr}} They had one daughter, Laurette of Flanders{{Cite book |last=Mons |first=Gilbert of |url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/9781846153815 |title=<i>Chronicle of Hainaut</i> by Gilbert of Mons |date=2005-04-15 |publisher=Boydell and Brewer Limited |doi=10.1017/9781846153815 |isbn=978-1-84615-381-5|s2cid=250631472 }} who, like her mother, had four husbands (Iwain, Count of Aalst, Henry II, Duke of Limburg; Raoul I of Vermandois, and Henry IV of Luxembourg. Laurette later retired to a nunnery where she died in 1170.
References
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Sources
- {{cite book |last=Galbert de Bruges |title=The Murder, Betrayal, and Slaughter of the Glorious Charles, Count of Flanders |translator-first=John Jeffrey |translator-last=Rider |publisher=Yale University Press |year=2013 }}
Category:Countesses of Flanders
Category:12th-century women from the county of Flanders