Yolande, Duchess of Lorraine
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Duchess of Lorraine | |||||
Born | 2 November 1428 Nancy | ||||
Died | 23 March 1483 Nancy | (aged 54)||||
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René, King of Naples | |||||
Mother | Isabella, Duchess of Lorraine |
Yolande (2 November 1428 in
In the 19th century, a romanticised version of her early life was popularised by the play
Marriage and children
In 1445, she married her
Children
- René (future Duke of Lorraine) (1451–1508), Duke of Lorraine.[1] On 1 September 1485 he married, secondly, Philippa of Guelders.
- Nicolas of Lorraine, Lord of Joinville and Bauffremont, died in 1476.
- Peter of Lorraine, died in 1451.
- Jeanne of Lorraine (1458 – 25 January 1480), married in 1474 to Charles IV, Duke of Anjou[2]
- Yolande of Lorraine, who died in 1500, married in 1497 to William II, Landgrave of Hesse, by whom she had issue.
- Marguerite of Lorraine (1463–1521), married in 1488 to René, Duke of Alençon (1454–1492)
Reign
In 1473, on the death of her nephew Nicolas, she inherited the Duchy of Lorraine, but passed it immediately to her eldest son René II. In 1480, after the death of her father, she did the same with the Duchy of Bar. She died on 23 March 1483, which was the birthday of her sister Queen Margaret, who had died the previous summer. Yolande was 54 years old.
Cultural references
In 1845 the Danish poet
The portrayal of Yolande as a saintly dreaming beauty (regularly placed in an entranced sleep by the physician) was immensely popular. The play was translated into numerous languages. The Russian translation by Fyodor Miller was adapted by Vladimir Zotov, whose version was used as the basis for the opera Iolanta, written by Tchaikovsky, with libretto by his brother Modest Ilyich Tchaikovsky. It received its premiere on 18 December 1892 in St. Petersburg.[3]
The heroine's name was given as "Iolanthe" in the original Danish version and in the English translation by Theodore Martin, making this version of her name familiar in the 19th century. In 1913 a silent film of Hertz's play was made by the Thanhouser Company, starring Maude Fealy as Yolande.[4] It was also adapted in 1990 as the German film Das Licht der Liebe.[5]
In the pseudohistorical book The Holy Blood and the Holy Grail Yolande de Bar was alleged to have been the tenth Grand Master of the Priory of Sion, succeeding her father, King René. The evidence for this claim was derived from the Dossiers Secrets d'Henri Lobineau, forged documents created in 1967.
Notes
- ^ a b c Kekewich 2008, p. xiv.
- ^ Potter 1995, p. 374.
- ^ Wheeler, Victor (2011). "Dicapo Opera – Tchaikovsky's Iolanta". www.classicalsource.com. Retrieved 2011-12-18.
- ^ King's Rene's Daughter, Thanhouser films .
- ^ Das Licht der Liebe (1990)
Sources
- Kekewich, Margaret L. (2008). The Good King: René of Anjou and Fifteenth Century Europe. Palgrave Macmillan.
- Potter, David (1995). A History of France, 1460-1560: The Emergence of a Nation State. St. Martin's Press.