Frederick II of Vaudémont

Frederick II , called Ferry II in France (* around 1428; † August 31, 1470 in Joinville ) was Count of Vaudémont and Lord of Joinville. He was the son of Antoine de Vaudémont and Marie d'Harcourt, Countess of Aumale and Baroness of Elbeuf . To underline his claims to the Duchy of Lorraine , he is also Frederick VI. from Lorraine or Ferry VI. called de Lorraine .

He married Jolande von Anjou in Nancy in 1445 , daughter of René I , Duke of Bar , Count of Provence and Forcalquier etc. and Isabella , Duchess of Lorraine . The marriage was part of a marriage contract concluded between their fathers in 1433, with which the succession disputes in Lorraine were settled.

Her children were among others:

• René II , † 1508, 1473 Duke of Lorraine; ⚭ 1) Jeanne d'Harcourt, Countess of Tancarville , daughter of Count Guillaume; ⚭ 2) Philippa von Geldern , daughter of Adolf von Egmond , Duke of Geldern ; The descendants were the Dukes of Lorraine from 1473 , from which the House of Habsburg-Lothringen emerged in 1736 , and the House of Guise
• Nicolas , † around 1476, Seigneur de Joinville et de Bauffremont,
• Jeanne, † 1480; ⚭ Charles IV Duke of Anjou , Duke of Maine, † 1481 ( Younger House of Anjou )
• Marguerite , † 1521, ⚭ René , † 1492, Duke of Alençon ( House of Valois-Alençon )
• Yolande, † 1500, ⚭ Wilhelm II. The Middle , Landgrave of Hesse , † 1509

In 1456 René I entrusted him with the administration of the Duchy of Bar and in 1459, while he was making his second attempt to win the kingdom for himself, gave him the title of Lieutenant General of Sicily. He died in Joinville in 1470, three years before the Duchy of Lorraine fell to his wife.

After 1495, his brother, Bishop Heinrich von Metz, had Jacques Bachot , one of the most important sculptors of the late Gothic period in Champagne and Lorraine, make a splendid tomb for the family burial place in the collegiate church of Joinville for him and his wife Jolande , which was destroyed during the revolution.

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 .