Margaret of Joinville

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Margaret of Joinville (French: Marguerite de Joinville ; * 1354 ; † 1418 ) was Mistress of Joinville and Countess of Vaudémont (German: Widmont , hence Margarete von Widmont ) from 1365 to 1418 .

family

Margarete's parents were Heinrich V , Lord of Joinville and Count of Vaudémont , and Marie of Luxembourg. Her father died when she was only eleven years old.

In 1367 she married Johann von Châlon (* 1340; † 1373), Lord of Montaigu. After his death in 1374 she married Peter , Count of Geneva . Peter's brother Robert was elected Antipope Clement VII . Peter died in 1392 in the service of his brother. Both marriages remained childless.

In 1392 Margarete married Frederick I of Vaudémont (* 1368; † 1415), the younger brother of Duke Charles II of Lorraine, in her third marriage, and brought inheritance with her into the marriage.

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Ancestral mother of Habsburg-Lorraine

The direct descendants of Margarethe and Friedrich took over the Duchy of Lorraine as the House of Vaudémont in 1473 . In 1528 their descendants divided into a German line, the Dukes of Lorraine , and a French line, the Dukes of Guise . The Joinville reign came to the latter. The German line came to the throne of the Holy Roman Empire through the marriage of Duke Franz Stephans to the heiress of the Habsburgs , Maria Theresa of Austria , and thereby founded the House of Habsburg-Lothringen .

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SURNAME Margaret of Joinville
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Marguerite de Joinville; Margaret of Widmont; Margaret of Vaudémont
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Countess of Vaudémont, mistress of Joinville
DATE OF BIRTH 1354
DATE OF DEATH 1418