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MARGARET,

Daughter of Raymond Berenger, count of Provence, married St. Louis, King of France, in 1254, and attended him during his wars in the Holy Land with the Saracens; when, on his captivity, she behaved with heroic intrepidity in the defence of Damietta. She died at Paris in 1285, aged seventy-six.

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