A Cyclopaedia of Female Biography/Agnes de Merania

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AGNES DE MERANIA,

Daughter of the duke de Merania, married Philip Augustus, king of France, after he was divorced by his bishops from his wife, Ingeborge, sister of the King of Denmark. The Pope declared this second marriage null, and placed France under an interdict, till Philip should take back Ingeborge. Philip was at length obliged to do this, and Agnes died of grief the same year, 1201 at Poissy. Her two children were declared legitimate by the Pope.