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.
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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