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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