Marie I, Countess of Saint-Pol and Soissons

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Marie of Luxembourg-Saint-Pol (died 1 April 1547) was the ruling Countess Regnant of

Charles de Bourbon.[2]

Life

Marie was the elder daughter and principal heiress of

Louis I, Duke of Savoy.[3] She belonged to the French cadet branch of a dynasty which had reigned as Dukes of Luxembourg, and whose senior line provided several Holy Roman Emperors
before eventually becoming extinct in 1437.

Marie was first married as a child to her maternal uncle,

Louis de Luxembourg, Count of Saint-Pol's, execution for treason in 1475; which entailed the sequestration
of his property. She inherited the County of Soissons and the County of Saint-Pol after the death of her father in 1482.

Marie's status and part of her French inheritance were restored upon her remarriage to

Francis de Bourbon, Count of Vendôme, a prince du sang, in 1487.[4] Although she had a younger sister, Francisca of Luxembourg, who wed Philip of Cleves, Lord of Ravenstein, and her father had several younger brothers, she brought vast revenues and estates to the House of Bourbon. These included the counties of Saint-Pol and Soissons in Picardy, Ligny, and Marle, as well as the Château de Condé which was later passed down as a residence to the Princes of Condé: the descendants of her grandson, Louis de Bourbon, 1st Prince of Condé
.

When her husband Francis died in 1495, she became

Mairie
.

Her great-granddaughter was crowned Mary, Queen of Scots in 1542.

She died in 1547 in the château de Fère-en-Tardenois in Picardy, and was buried with her second husband in Vendôme.

Marie depicted in an engraving with her second husband Francis.

Issue

Marie's first marriage was to

Jacques of Savoy, Count of Romont
. They had:

Marie's second marriage was to

Francis de Bourbon, Count of Vendôme
. They had:

Ancestors

References

  1. ^ Putko 1996, p. ?.
  2. ^ Thomson 2009, p. 6.
  3. ^ a b Busby et al. 1993, p. 145.
  4. ^ Potter 1993, p. 48.
  5. ^ Guenther 1995, p. 5.
  6. ^ Potter 1993, p. 73.
  7. ^ Potter 1993, p. 227.
  8. ^ Carroll 2011, p. 25.

Sources

  • Busby, Keith; Freeman, M.J.; Houppermans, Sjef; Pelckmans, Paul, eds. (1993). Les Manuscrits de Chrétien de Troyes. Vol. 2. Rodopi.
  • Carroll, Stuart (2011). Martyrs and Murderers: The Guise Family and the Making of Europe. Oxford University Press.
  • Guenther, Ilse (1995). "Henry III of Nassau". In Bietenholz, Peter G.; Deutscher, Thomas Brian (eds.). Contemporaries of Erasmus: A Biographical Register of the Renaissance and Reformation. Vol. 2. University of Toronto Press.
  • Potter, David (1993). War and Government in the French Provinces, Picardy 1470-1560. Cambridge University Press.
  • Putko, Carole Ann (1996). The pursuit of power: Charles de Guise, Cardinal de Lorraine (1525-1574): A study in complexity, controversy, and compromise. University of Southern California.
  • Thomson, Oliver (2009). The Impossible Bourbons: Europe's Most Ambitious Dynasty. Amberley Publishing Limited.
    ISBN 978-1-4456-3148-6
    .
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