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After Isabelle's early death in childbirth, in 1190, Philip decided to marry again.
On 15 August 1193, he married Ingeborg ( 1175 – 1236 ), daughter of King Valdemar I of Denmark ( ruled 1157 – 82 ).
She was renamed Isambour, and Stephan of Dornik described her as " very kind, young of age but old of wisdom.
" For some unknown reason, Philip was repelled by her and he refused to allow her to be crowned Queen.
Ingeborg protested at this treatment ; his response was to confine her to a convent.
He then asked Pope Celestine III for an annulment on the grounds of non-consummation.
Philip had not reckoned with Isambour, however ; she insisted that the marriage had been consummated, and that she was his wife and the rightful Queen of France.
The Franco-Danish churchman William of Paris intervened on the side of Ingeborg, drawing up a genealogy of the Danish kings to disprove the alleged impediment of consanguinity.
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