Marguerite de France was a daughter of Philippe IV, King of France and his wife Joanna I, Queen of Navarre. She is listed as the second child and eldest daughter of this couple by Kerrebrouck, which would place her birth in about 1290 or 1291, but there are no sources cited to confirm this placement in their children.[1]
However she must have been born before 1294, when she was betrothed to Ferdinand of Castile, later Ferdinand IV, King of Castile by treaty probably in October that year and definitely before Feast of All Saints, which is 1 November.[2]. He had previously been betrothed to her younger sister Blanche who died young.[2] Marguerite also died soon after the betrothal in 1294.[1]
The primary sources that confirm the treaty for her proposed marriage to Ferdinand IV and her death shortly afterwards have so far not been located.
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