Antoine de Vaudémont

Sarcophagus by Antoine de Vaudémont and Marie d'Harcourt, in the Église des Cordeliers in Nancy

Antoine de Vaudémont (* around 1400; † March 22, 1458 ) was Count of Vaudémont and Lord of Joinville from 1418 to 1458. Through his marriage he was also Count of Aumale and Baron of Elbeuf from 1452 to 1458 . He was the son of Frederick I of Vaudémont and Marguerite de Joinville .

Life

Antoine married Marie, Countess of Harcourt and Aumale and Baroness of Elbeuf , daughter of Count Jean VII , and Marie d'Alençon on August 12, 1416 . Your children were:

• Friedrich (Ferry) II. (* 1428; † 1470), Count of Vaudémont and Lord of Joinville,
• Johann (Jean) VIII. († 1473), Count of Aumale and Baron of Elbeuf,
• Heinrich (Henri) († 1505), Bishop of Thérouanne (1447–1484), then Bishop of Metz (1484–1505),
• Marie († 1455), ⚭ 1450 Alain IX. († 1462), Viscount de Rohan,
• Margarete (Marguerite) († after 1477), ⚭ 1432 Antoine I. de Croÿ († 1475).

Antoine de Vaudémont was the nephew of Duke Charles II of Lorraine , whose successor he wanted to be because he had no sons. Charles II decided, however, that his daughter Isabella (* around 1400; † 1453), who was married to René I of Anjou , Duke of Bar in 1420 , should inherit the duchy, which Antoine contested, which is why Karl formally took over him in 1425 disinherited. Charles' attacks on Antoine's property came to nothing, however, as Antoine had sought a powerful ally in Philip the Good , Duke of Burgundy . After the succession occurred in 1431, Antoine resumed the fight for the duchy, and on July 2, 1431 he succeeded in capturing René at the Battle of Bulgnéville .

On October 10, 1432, René and Antoine agreed to appeal to Philip the Good as arbitrator, but his mediation only brought about an agreement (Brussels, February 13, 1433), which, among other things, resulted in a later marriage between children of the opposing parties, Jolande von Lorraine ( * 1428) and Frederick II of Vaudémont (* around 1428). Emperor Sigismund enfeoffed René with Lorraine in 1434, whereupon Antoine turned to the Burgundy again, without being able to change the decision. On March 27, 1441, Antoine finally renounced his claim to Lorraine in the Treaty of Reims ; for this the independence of his county Vaudémont was recognized and his son Friedrich II. was betrothed to Jolande. Their wedding took place in Nancy in 1445 . Antoine's grandson René II was able to become Duke of Lorraine in 1473.

literature

• Michel François: Histoire des comtes et du comté de Vaudémont des origines à 1473. Humblot, Nancy 1935.
• Georges Poull: La maison ducale de Lorraine devenue la Maison impériale et royale d'Autriche, de Hongrie et de Bohême. Presses Universitaires de Nancy, Nancy 1991, ISBN 2-86480-517-0 .
• Detlev Schwennicke : European family tables . New series Volume 1, 2: Přemyslids, Ascanians, Dukes of Lorraine, the houses of Hesse, Württemberg and Zähringen. Klostermann, Frankfurt am Main 1999, ISBN 3-465-03020-6 , plate 206