Marie of Orléans, Viscountess of Narbonne

Marie of Orléans
Countess of Étampes
Viscountess of Narbonne
Born 19 December/September 1457
Died 1493
Spouse John of Foix
Issue Germaine, Queen of Aragon
Gaston of Foix, Duke of Nemours
House House of Valois-Orléans
Father Charles, Duke of Orléans
Mother Marie of Cleves

Marie of Orléans (19 December/September 1457 – 1493) was the elder sister of King Louis XII of France. Due to her marriage to John of Foix,[1] she was Countess of Étampes and Viscountess of Narbonne.

Marie was the eldest daughter of Charles, Duke of Orléans, and his third wife Marie of Cleves. After a previous betrothal to Peter II, Duke of Bourbon,[2] she married John of Foix on 8 September 1476.[3]

Issue

She had two children by John of Foix:

References

  1. ↑ André Thevet, Portraits from the French Renaissance and the Wars of Religion, transl. Edward Benson, ed. Roger Schlesinger, (Truman State University Press, 2010), 3.
  2. ↑ Frederic J. Baumgartner, Louis XII, (St. Martin's Press, 1996), 8.
  3. ↑ Elena Woodacre, The Queens Regnant of Navarre: Succession, Politics, and Partnership, 1274-1512, (Palgrave Macmillan, 2013), 122.
  4. 1 2 Frederic J. Baumgartner, Louis XII, 146.

Ancestors

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