Catherine of Vendôme
Catherine of Vendôme | |
|---|---|
| Countess of la Marche | |
Jeanne of Ponthieu |
Catherine de Vendôme (1354 – 1 April 1412) was a ruling
countess of Vendôme and of Castres
from 1372 until 1403.
Life
Catherine was the daughter of
In 1372 inherited Vendôme on the death of her niece
Jeanne
and administered it jointly with her husband, then (after his death) with her second son Louis until 1403.
Issue
Catherine and John had:
- James II, Count of La Marche and Castres (1370–1438)
- Isabelle (born 1373), a nun at Poissy
- Louis, Count of Vendôme (1376–1446)
- Lord of Carency (1378–1457), married c. 1416 Catherine, daughter of Philip of Artois, Count of Eu, without issue, married in 1420 at Le Mans, his mistress Jeanne de Vendômois, with whom he had issue
- Count of Montpensier (d. 1401), married in Paris in 1402 Louis VII, Duke of Bavaria[1]
- Marie (1386 – aft. 11 September 1463), Lady of Brehencourt, married Jean de Baynes, Lord of Croix
- Janus of Cyprus
References
- ^ a b c Richards 2007, p. 13.
- ^ de Salazar y Acha 2006, p. 95.
Sources
- Richards, Earl Jeffrey (2007). "Political Thought as Improvisation: Female Regency and Mariology in Late Medieval French Thought". In Broad, Jacqueline; Green, Karen (eds.). Virtue, liberty, and toleration: political ideas of European women, 1400-1800. Springer. p. 1-22.
- de Salazar y Acha, Jaime (2006). Manual de genealogía española (in Spanish). Instituto Salazar y Castro.