Nicole (Penthièvre)

Nicole de Châtillon-Blois (also called Nicole d'Avaugour ) (* before 1434, † after December 19, 1479) was the daughter of Charles de Châtillon-Blois, Baron d' Avaugour , Seigneur de Reynal .

After the death of her father (1434), she was adopted by Jean I de Brosse , Marshal of France , who three years later married her to his son Jean II de Brosse ; the marriage contract dates from June 18, 1437.

In 1454 Nicole inherited the county of Penthièvre after all her father's brothers had died without leaving any sons , while her cousin Françoise got the vice-county of Limoges . On her behalf, Jean II. De Brosse renounced Nicole's claims to the Duchy of Brittany in 1479 , which came from her great-grandfather Charles de Blois-Châtillon , who had triggered the War of the Breton Succession (1341-1364). Despite this renunciation, the descendants of Jean and Nicole carried the name "de Brosse dit de Bretagne".

The children of Jean de Brosse and Nicole de Châtillon-Blois are:

1. Jean III, † 1502, Comte de Penthièvre, Viscount de Bridiers; ∞ Louise de Montfort de Laval, † 1480, daughter of Guy XIV. De Laval ( House of Montfort-Laval )
2. Antoine, † after 1522, Viscount de Bridiers
3. Claudine, † 1513, 1505 Vicomtesse de Bridiers; ∞ Philip II , Duke of Savoy , † 1497 ( House of Savoy )
4. Pauline, † 1479; ∞ Jean de Bourgogne , Count of Nevers , Rethel and Étampes , 1491 ( House of Burgundy )
5. Bernarde, † 1485; ∞ Wilhelm X. (VIII.), Margrave of Montferrat , † 1483 ( palaeologists )
6. Hélène, † 1484; ∞ Boniface III, 1483 Margrave of Montferrat , † 1494 ( palaeologists )

literature

• Detlev Schwennicke: European family tables . Volume III.4, 1989, plate 775