Margaret, Countess of Brienne
Marguerite d'Enghien | |
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Countess of Brienne Countess of Conversano Heiress of Enghien Lady of Beauvois | |
Louis of Enghien | |
Mother | Giovanna of Sanseverino |
Marguerite d'Enghien (born 1365 - d. after 1394), was the ruling
Life
Marguerite was born in 1365, the eldest daughter of
She inherited the counties of
Reign
Marguerite became the suo jure Countess of Brienne and Conversano, and Dame of Enghien upon her father's death on 17 March 1394. Her husband John also became Count of Brienne and of Conversano by right of his wife.[1]
She died on an unknown date sometime after 1394. Her will was dated 19 September 1393. Her eldest son, Peter received her titles of Brienne and of Conversano.
Marriages and issue
On an unknown date, Marguerite married her first husband, Pierre de Baux, and following his death, she married as her second husband, a relative of her mother, Giacopo of Sanseverino. Both of these early marriages were childless.
In 1380, after Giacopo's death, Marguerite married her third husband,
- Margaret de Baux, by whom he had nine children, including Jacquetta of Luxembourg, mother of Elizabeth Woodville Queen-Consort of Edward IV of England.
- livres.
- Louis of Luxembourg (died 18 September 1443). He was a statesman and a high-ranking churchman. His posts and clerical titles included Cardinal (1439), Archbishop of Rouen (1437), Chancellor of France (1425), Governor of Paris (1436), Bishop of Thérouanne, Administrator of Ely (1437), Bishop of Frascati (1442). He was buried in Ely Cathedral.
- Catherine of Luxembourg (born c. 1393)
- Jeanne of Luxembourg (died 1420), married firstly, on 8 September 1415, Louis, Seigneur de Ghistelles (killed at the Battle of Agincourt); she married secondly on 28 October 1419, Jean IV, Viscount of Melun, Constable of Flanders.
References
- ^ a b c Luttrell 1982, p. 186.
- ^ Matthieu, Ernest (1877). Histoire de la ville d'Enghien (in French). Dequesne-Masquillier. p. 103. Retrieved 15 May 2018.
Sources
- Luttrell, Anthony (1982). Latin Greece, the Hospitallers and the Crusades, 1291-1440. Variorum.