Agnes (Bourbon)

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Agnes von Dampierre or Agnes von Bourbon (* probably 1237; † September 7, 1288 ) was mistress of Bourbon from 1262 and Countess of Artois from 1277 . She was the younger daughter of Archambault IX. , Lord of Bourbon and Jolanthe of Châtillon , Countess of Nevers , Auxerre and Tonnerre .

Her father married Agnes and her sister Mathilde in February 1248 to members of the older house of Burgundy , before joining King Louis IX in August of the same year . set out for the Sixth Crusade . The corresponding marriage contracts had already been drawn up in February 1237. Mathilde's husband was Odo , heir duke of Burgundy , and Agnes's younger brother Johann , Count of Charolais.

Johann and Agnes had a daughter, Beatrix (Béatrice) (* probably 1257; † October 1, 1310), who married Robert in the summer of 1272 , Count of Clermont-en-Beauvaisis since 1269 , and from the wedding Lord of Bourbon. Robert and Beatrix are the first parents of the Bourbons .

After the death of her sister Mathilde, Agnes inherited the Bourbon rule in 1262. She also received some possessions in the Nivernais . Her husband Johann died on September 29, 1268. Agnes had a castle built in Nevers to the west of the cathedral there and in November 1275 it was given to Jacobins who had recently settled in Nevers, a gift from the French King Philip IV. later confirmed.

Nine years after John's death in 1277, Agnes married Robert II , Count von Artois, as a second marriage . This marriage remained childless. Agnes modified her earlier will through a codicil dated August 16, 1278.

Agnes died in 1288 at the age of about 50 and was buried in the Couvent des Cordeliers de Champaigue near Souvigny .

literature

  • Detlev Schwennicke: European Family Tables Volume II (1984) Plate 21
  • A. Desforges: Agnes de Bourbon . In: Dictionnaire de Biographie française , Vol. 1 (1932), Col. 740f.

Remarks

  1. ↑ Charles Cawley, Medieval Lands , Agnes de Bourbon gives September 5, 1287 and June 30, 1288 as other possible dates of the death of Agnes.
  2. ↑ A. Desforges, Dictionnaire de Biographie française , Vol. 1, Col. 740f.
personal data
SURNAME Agnes
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Agnes of Dampierre
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Mistress of bourbon
DATE OF BIRTH around 1237
DATE OF DEATH September 7, 1288