Marie (Ligny and St. Pol)
Marie de Luxembourg (* 1462 or 1472; † April 1, 1547 in La Fère ) is the daughter of Pierre II de Luxembourg , Comte de Saint-Pol , and Margaret of Savoy (1439-1483), daughter of Duke Louis of Savoy and Anne de Lusignan .
The eldest daughter of a couple with no sons to reach adulthood, Marie was the heir to a number of fiefdoms, including Counties of Saint-Pol , Conversano , Marle and Soissons , as well as the Vice- County of Meaux .
Marriage and offspring
Marie de Luxembourg married her uncle Jacob of Savoy (1450–1486), Count of Romont and Baron of Vaud, for the first time in 1484 . The only child in this marriage is:
- Françoise de Savoie, † 1511; ∞ Henry III. von Nassau-Breda , son of Johann V. von Nassau-Dillenburg , without descendants
As a widow, she married François de Bourbon (1470–1495), Comte de Vendôme , Seigneur d ' Epernon on September 8, 1487 . The children from this marriage are:
- Charles (born June 2, 1489 in Vendôme, † March 25, 1537 in Amiens ), Count and from 1515 Duke of Vendôme, the grandfather of Henry IV of France
- Jacques (July 6, 1490 - August 16, 1491)
- François (6 October 1491, † 1 September 1545), Count of St. Pol, by marriage Duke of Estouteville ; ∞ Adrienne d'Estouteville
- Louis (January 2, 1493 - March 11, 1557), Vice Count of Meaux, Archbishop of Sens , Cardinal
- Antoinette (25 December 1494 - 22 January 1583); ∞ June 9, 1513 in Paris Claude de Lorraine , first Duke of Guise
- Louise (born May 1, 1495 in La Fère; † September 21, 1575), Abbess of Fontevrault
Life
With the death of her second husband, she took over the guardianship of her children and the reign of the county of Vendôme , whose usufruct she had. As compensation after the women's peace of 1529, which cost her Flemish fiefs, she received the Duchy of Valois from King Francis I in 1530 , whose governor (together with Picardy and Île-de-France ) was her son Charles, the county Montfort-l'Amaury , and according to some sources the county of Castres as a usufruct. After "La Fère, son histoire", her immediate heir was her grandson Antoine de Bourbon , Duke of Vendôme.
Marie de Luxembourg was an active and cultured woman, modest and on good terms with the courts in Paris and Brussels. About 150 people were at her service, her resources were immense, but she used them with great intelligence. She was able to travel long distances so that she was able to run her own business. She built the castle in La Fere , founded the monastery and maintained the Hôtel-Dieu, built the halls of Condé-en-Brie, supported the collegiate monastery in Vendôme and is said to have introduced embroidery in the Vendômois . In 1529 she initiated the Saint-Gobain glass factory .
In their residence in Saint-Pol, in 1529, the "Peace of Cambrai" between the Emperor and the King of France was concluded, signed by their cousins, the sisters-in-law Margaret of Austria and Luise of Savoy .
Marie de Luxembourg is the great-grandmother of King Henry IV , Henri I. de Lorraine, duc de Guise , Maria Stuart , Henri I. de Bourbon, prince de Condé , Charles de Bourbon, comte de Soissons , Henri I. d'Orléans, duc de Longueville and Henriette de Clèves , duchesse de Nevers et Rethel.
literature
- Jean-Claude Pasquier, Le Château de Vendôme , 2000
- La Fère, son histoire , Syndicat d'initiative de La Fère
- C. Theillez, Marie de Luxembourg et son temps
- Anne S. Korteweg, La collection de livres d'une femme indépendante: Marie de Luxembourg (v. 1470-1547) , in: Anne-Marie Legaré (ed.): Livres et lectures de femmes en Europe entre Moyen Âge et Renaissance , Turnhout, Brepols, 2007, pp. 221-232
- Maximilien Melleville, Dictionnaire historique du Département de l'Aisne , 1865
- Maximilien Melleville, Histoire de la ville de Chauny , 1869;
- Claude Carlier, Histoire du Duché de Valois , 1764, volume 7
- Jean Vassort, Une société provinciale face à son devenir: le Vendômois aux XVIIIè et XIXè siècles , Paris, Publications de la Sorbonne, 1995
- Société historique de Haute-Picardie, St-Gobain avant la Manufacture établie en 1692 ( [1] )
Remarks
- ↑ The epitaph on Marie de Luxembourg's destroyed grave is said to have read: “En ce même lieu gist très-sage et très-excellente princesse Marie de Luxembourg, comtesse de Saint-Paul et de Marles, femme dudit comte François de Bourbon, laquelle trépassa en son château de La Fère, en Picardie, le premier avril 1546 ». Philibert-Jérôme Gaucher de Passac, Vendôme et le Vendomois , Morard-Jahyer, 1823.
- ↑ Melleville (1865); Melleville (1869); on Montfort-l'Amaury: MJ L'Hermite, 1825; Chronique de Dourdan, Joseph Guyot, 1869; Carlier, p. 551
- ^ Vassort, p. 82
- ^ Société historique de Haute-Picardie
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Marie |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Marie de Luxembourg |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Countess of Saint-Pol, Marle, Soissons and Conversano |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1462 or 1472 |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 1, 1547 |
| Place of death | La Fère |