Marie de Coucy

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Marie de Coucy (c. 1218 – 1285) was the daughter of Enguerrand III, Lord of Coucy and his third wife Marie de Montmirel (c. 1184-1267). She was Queen consort of the Kingdom of Scotland.

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On May 15, 1239 she married King Alexander II of Scotland at Roxburgh, with whom she mothered the future King, Alexander III of Scotland. The marriage brought an alliance between the Scots and the Coucy lordship, and for the rest of the 13th century, they exchanged soldiers and money. Her husband died in 1249, and so two years later she returned to Picardy, although she would frequently revisit the Kingdom of Scotland.

Her second husband was Jean de Brienne, Grand Butler of France, whom she married sometime before 1257. She was his second wife. They had no children together, however, de Brienne had a daughter Blanche by his first wife Jeanne, Dame de Chateaudun.

Marie de Coucy died in 1285.

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• Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists Who Came to America Before 1700, by Frederick Lewis Weis, Line 120-30
• Brown, Michael, The Wars of Scotland, 1214-1371, (Edinburgh, 2004)

Preceded by Joan of England	Queen consort of Scotland 1239-1249	Succeeded by Margaret of England
Preceded by Ermengarde de Beaumont	Queen mother 1249–1285	Succeeded by Joan Beaufort