Born in Boves, Somme, Picardie, France
[uncertain]
Ancestors [uncertain]
Daughter of Enguerrand (Coucy) de Coucy
and Marie (Montmirail) de Coucy
Sister of
Jeanne (Coucy) de Coucy, Raoul Coucy II, Alix (Coucy) de Guînes and Enguerrand (Coucy) de Coucy
Wife of
Alexander (Dunkeld) King of Scots
— married
15 May 1239 [location unknown]
Wife of
Jean (Brienne) de Brienne
— married
about 1240 in Boves, Somme, France
Descendants 
Mother of
Alexander (Dunkeld) King of Scots
Died
at about age 67
in Champagne, Dordogne, Aquitaine, France [uncertain]
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Marie de Coucy, Queen Consort of Scotland
Marie de Coucy was the daughter of Enguerrand III, Lord of Coucy and his third wife Marie de Montmirel. She married twice her first husband was King Alexander II of Scotland, who she married on 15 May 1239, in Roxburgh. Their marriage brought an alliance between the Scots and the Coucy lordship. In 1241 she gave birth to the future King, Alexander III of Scotland. King Alexander II of Scotland died in 1249, and her son was crowned soon after at Scone. She next married Jean de Brienne, Grand Butler of France, sometime before 1257. She was his second wife. They had no children together.
Sources
- See Also:
- Royal Ancestry by Douglas Richardson Vol. I p. 539
- Royal Ancestry by Douglas Richardson Vol. IV p. 590
- Wikipedia - Marie de Coucy
- Roots Web - Selected Families and Individuals
- Google Books - Historical Dictionary of the British Monarchy By James Panton
- Angelfire - The families de Coucy and de Guines
- Stringer, Keith. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography Online, 23 Sep 2004.Marie (née Marie de Coucy), available by subscription.
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Do we perhaps mean she died visiting family in Champagne? The Coucys had properties there, though mostly in... Coucy, in nearby Picardie. They had the biggest castle in France, perhaps in Europe, sadly destroyed by the Germans in WW1:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ch%C3%A2teau_de_Coucy
I think the current notional deathplace we're publishing here on WikiTree may simply be a garble introduced accidentally, by a well-intentioned amateur (sounds like me!) looking up "Champagne" on Google Maps or Wikipedia, and finding (without realizing it's wrong) 'Champagne-et-Fontaine, Dordogne, Nouvelle-Aquitaine.' And/or somebody else later deletes everything after the hyphens, thinking that's better. Prolly just wronger.
edited by Isaac Taylor