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• Roepnaam is Duchess Constance of /Brittany/.
• Zij is geboren rond 1162 in Nantes, Bretagne, France.
• Beroep: Duquesa da Britânia, Duchesse, de Bretagne, Comtesse, de Richmond.
• (Marriage) rond juli 1181 in France probably.

  Echtgeno(o)t(e): Geoffrey Onbekend

• Zij is overleden op 5 september 1201 in Nantes, Loire-Atlantique, Pays de la Loire, France.
• Zij is begraven op 24 november 1225 in Villeneuve Abbey, Nantes, Loire-Atlantique, Pays de la Loire, France.
• Een kind van Conan IV van Bretagne en Margaretha van Schotland van Huntingdon

Gezin van Constance "Duchess Constance of /Brittany/" van Bretagne

Zij heeft/had een relatie met Guy de Thouars.

Kind(eren):

1. Catherine van Thouars  1201-1240
2. Adelheid van Thouars van Bretagne  1201-1221 

• Het echtpaar heeft gemeenschappelijke voorouders.



Notities over Constance "Duchess Constance of /Brittany/" van Bretagne

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.196. Constance was the only child of Conan IV, Duke of Brittany and Earl of Richmond, by his wife Margaret of Huntingdon, later called Countess of Hereford, a granddaughter of David I of Scotland.ontents=urth son of Henry II of England and Eleanor of Aquitaine. With Geoffery she had three children: Eleanor, Fair Maid of Brittany (1184-1241), Matilda/Maud of Brittany (1185-bef 1189) and Arthur (b 1186-1203), the latter born after Geoffrey's death. As de jure uxoris Duke, Geoffrey excluded Constance from exercising authority in government. In 1186, in a riding accident in Paris, Geoffrey was stamped to death during a tournament. Constance thereafter became the effective ruler of Brittany. February 1188. In 1191 King Richard I of England officially proclaimed his nephew, Constance's son Arthur of Brittany, as his heir in a treaty signed with Philip II of France. To promote her son's position and inheritance, Constance abdicated in his favor in 1194.ellions were sparked across Brittany on her behalf. Ranulph bowed to growing pressure and had the Duchess released in 1198.iers, Constance took Guy of Thouars as her 'second' husband. Throughout these years, Constance advised her son towards a French alliance, pursuing the policy of her late husband Geoffrey II.hard I died in 1199, Phillip II agreed to recognize Arthur as count of Anjou, Maine, and Poitou, in exchange for Arthur swearing fealty to Phillip II, becoming a direct vassel of France. However 13-year-old Arthur was captured while besieging Mirabeau, and the following year he was transferred to Rouen, under the charge of William de Braose, and then vanished mysteriously in April 1203.e conflict, Constance's eldest daughter Eleanor was captured and imprisoned at Corfe Castle in Dorset, where she remained imprisoned until her death.Alix of Thouars, who married Peter de Dreux, first Breton ruler of the House of Dreux; and Katherine of Thouars (1201-c. 1240) who married Andre III of Bretagne, Sire of Vitre.nstance died, age 40, on 5 September 1201 at Nantes. She was buried at Villeneuve Abbey in Nantes.he died from complications of childbirth, shortly after birthing twin girls. Still others believe that she had leprosy, leading to a difficult delivery, and ultimately to her death shortly after the birth of the twins, thus both leprosy and childbirth being the causes of death. That Constance was birthing twins, at the age of forty, in the unsanitary conditions of the age, should be taken greatly into account in this debate. As the exact date of the twins birth is not currently known, and may never be known, there may never be a resolution to this question.n the play King John by William Shakespeare, in which she has several very eloquent speeches on grief and death. On screen, she has been portrayed by Julia Neilson in the silent short King John (1899), which recreates John's death scene at the end of the play, Sonia Dresdel in the BBC Sunday Night Theatre version (1952), and Claire Bloom in the BBC Shakespeare version (1984). She was also played by Paula Williams (as a girl) and Nina Francis (as an adult) in the BBC TV drama series The Devil's Crown (1978).

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