Jeanne de Laval (1433–1498)

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King René and his second wife, Jeanne de Laval. Nicolas Froment, around 1475. (Paris, Musée du Louvre)

Jeanne de Laval (* 1433 in Auray ; † 1498 ) was a French noblewoman and the daughter of Guy XIV. De Laval and Isabelle de Bretagne. Her brothers are Guy XV. de Laval and Pierre de Laval, who was to become Archbishop of Reims in 1473 . She was married on September 10, 1454 in Angers to René I. von Anjou , 24 years older and widowed .

Life

The marriage contract was signed on September 3, 1454, and the marriage was concluded on September 10 in the Saint-Nicolas monastery . The couple lived in various castles in the Angers and Saumur area for three years before moving to Provence in 1457 . In 1462 Jeanne and René returned to Anjou and finally settled in Provence in 1469. The marriage remained childless.

In both Aix-en-Provence and Angers, Jeanne and René ran a farm that was shaped by art and science. Le poème Regnauld et Jeanneton was a poem that René wrote in her honor. Nicolas Froment painted the couple for a triptych for the cathedral of Aix-en-Provence . In addition, she is shown on a tableau with René, listening to a sermon from Mary Magdalene . The tableau is located in the Musée national du Moyen Age in the Hôtel Cluny in Paris. The Cabinet des médailles of the Bibliothèque nationale de France has two medals from 1462, which depict them and René. A miniature shows her with her court ladies in the French version of the manuscript Pèlerinage de la vie humaine (Bibliothèque de l'Arsenal). There are monuments in her honor in Beaufort (1842), Les Rosiers-sur-Loire (1875) and Tarascon .

René died in 1480 and left his wife with enormous income in Anjou, Provence and the Barrois . She kept the usufruct of the county of Beaufort and the lordship of Mirebeau (which she exchanged for the barony of Aubagne ), and resided alternately in Saumur and at her castle in Beaufort-en-Vallée , where she died in 1498. She was buried in the Minorite Church in Angers.

literature

  • Comptes de Jean Legay , argentier de la Reine de Sicile , manuscript of the Bibliothèque d'Angers, published in L'Anjou Historique (1900).
  • Lecoy de la Marche, Le Roi René
  • J. Levron, Vie et mœurs du Roi René .
  • Vallet de Viriville, Histoire de Charles VII
  • Pierre Le Roy , La Reine Jeanne. Jeanne de Laval. Seconde épouse du Roi René . Regional editions de l'Ouest.

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personal data
SURNAME Laval, Jeanne de
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French nobles
DATE OF BIRTH 1433
PLACE OF BIRTH Auray
DATE OF DEATH 1498