Marie of France (1326–1341)
Marie of France (October 1326 – 6 October 1341) was a Capetian princess, daughter of King Charles IV of France and Queen Joan of Évreux. She was born in Château-Thierry in October 1326; her elder sister Joan died soon after birth.
When Charles IV died in 1328, the French throne passed to Philip VI because women could not inherit the crown. Marie and her sister Blanche could not become queen, though their mother pressed a claim to Navarre for them.
Marie died in Paris on 6 October 1341, at about 14 years old. She was buried beside her father in the Basilica of Saint-Denis.
Her tomb was made by the sculptor Jean de Liège around 1381. It shows Marie wearing a crown, with a canopy decorated with fleurs-de-lis above her recumbent figure. The tomb was damaged during the French Revolution in 1793, but the bust of Marie survived and was later kept and eventually became part of the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.
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