Marie of Champagne (c. 1174 – 29 August 1204[1] was the first Latin empress of Constantinople by marriage to Emperor Baldwin I.
[3] According to the chronicle of Gislebert of Mons, on 13 May 1179 Marie was officially bethrothed to Baldwin, son of the count of Flanders and Hainaut, to whom she was already promised to be wed in 1171.
[9] It was only when she arrived in Outremer that the news reached her of the fall of Constantinople and the election of Baldwin as the new Emperor of the East.
[11] She wanted to set sail for Constantinople but fell sick and died in the Holy Land.
[10] They had two known children: Media related to Maria of Champagne, Latin Empress of Constantinople at Wikimedia Commons