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Margaret of Burgundy

1290–1315

Margaret of Burgundy was queen consort of Louis X of France and one of the women implicated in the Tour de Nesle scandal. Her imprisonment and death became part of the dynastic crisis that destabilised the final Capetian succession.

Margaret of Burgundy also held the offices or ranks of royal consort and Queen Consort of France. Margaret of Burgundy belonged to the Burgundy family. Margaret of Burgundy died in Château Gaillard.

In Maurice Druon’s The Strangled Queen, after Philip IV's death, Louis X inherits the throne while his imprisoned wife Margaret of Burgundy remains an obstacle to a new marriage and a secure succession. Further fictional perspectives on Margaret of Burgundy can be found in Maurice Druon’s The Iron King.

Series

Historical novels and book series featuring Margaret of Burgundy (1 series)

The Accursed Kings in Order

by Maurice Druon 7 books 4.2(8,269)

The Accursed Kings follows the French and English monarchies from the final year of Philip IV's reign in 1314 to the capture of John II at Poitiers and the political crisis of the late 1350s. Across seven novels, the direct Capetian line fails, the Valois dynasty takes the…

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