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On 2 June 1202 a noble birth took place at Ghent. The baby was a girl, who received the name Margaret. Family Her father was Baldwin IX, Count of Flanders and Hainaut. Margaret 's mother was Marie of Champagne. Baldwin IX left the County of Flanders for the Fourth Crusade, before Margaret was born. In 1204, he even became the first Latin Emperor. The capital of the Latin Emperor was Constantinople. That's why Margaret was often called Margaret of Constantinople.  Her mother, on the other hand, Marie of Champagne was a granddaughter of King Louis VII of France and Eleanor of Aquitaine.  Youth When Margaret's mother died in 1404 and her father the next year, she and her sister, Joan, remained under the guardianship of their uncle: Philip of Namur. Soon he transferred the girls to King Philip II of France. Love and Marriage In 1211, Enguerrand III of Coucy offers to the King the sum of  50,000 Livres to marry Joan, while h

São Jorge Castle - Lisbon - Portugal São Jorge Castle - Lisbon - Portugal On one of my recent trips, I visited the São Jorge Castle in, Lisbon, Portugal. This Moorish Castle on top of the hill is an important tourist site of the Portuguese capital. Entrance tickets of the São Jorge Castle The main entrance is a 19th. century gate surmounted with the coat-of-arms of Queen Maria II of Portugal and 1896. Main Entrance São Jorge Castle - Lisbon - Portugal However the other entrances are also very beautiful entrance and stairs of São Jorge - Lisbon Royal History of the São Jorge Castle in Portugal In 1147 the castle and the city of Lisbon were freed from Moorish rule by Alfonso Henriques. When Lisbon became the capital in 1255 the castle served as the alcáçova, a fortified residence for King Alfonso III. São Jorge Castle Portugal - Flags  It was highly renovated around 1300 by King Denis I. Then it was transformed from a Moorish Castl