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Mary would become queen consort of France as the second wife of King Philip III of France, better known as Philip the Bold, but she would soon be involved in a series of palace intrigues and rivalries with her husband's favorite, being accused of poisoning his stepson to facilitate the accession of his own son to the French throne. Maria had to deal with the power exercised by the counselor Pierre de la Bronce and his mother-in-law, the widowed queen Margaret of Provence, over her husband the king, although over time she would manage to make her place at the French court and at her husband's side.
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