Life[edit]

Her parents were Renaud II, Count of Clermont-en-Beauvaisis and his first wife, Adelaide, Countess of Vermandois (daughter of Herbert IV, Count of Vermandois).^[1][2]


Margaret was first married to Charles I, Count of Flanders in 1115. As a dowry, she received the county of Amiens. The marriage was brief and childless.^[2]


Later, c. 1128, Margaret married Hugh II, Count of Saint-Pol,^[3] they had two sons, Raoul, and Guy.^[2]


Her third husband was Baldwin of Encre.^[2] They had one daughter, Elisabeth (died after 1189) who later married Gautier III, Lord of Heilly.^[2]


Her fourth and final husband was Thierry, Count of Flanders.^[4][5][6][7] They had one daughter, Laurette of Flanders^[8] who, like her mother, had four husbands (Iwain, Count of Aalst, Henry II, Duke of Limburg; Raoul I of Vermandois, and Henry IV of Luxembourg. Laurette later retired to a nunnery where she died in 1170.