Marie of Orléans, Viscountess of Narbonne

Marie of Orléans (19 December/September 1457 – 1493) was the elder sister of King Louis XII of France. Due to her marriage to John of Foix,^[1] she was Countess of Étampes and Viscountess of Narbonne.

Marie of Orléans
Countess of Étampes Viscountess of Narbonne
Born	19 December/September 1457
Died	1493
Spouse	John of Foix
Issue	Germaine, Queen of Aragon Gaston, Duke of Nemours
House	Valois-Orléans
Father	Charles, Duke of Orléans
Mother	Marie of Cleves

Marie was the eldest daughter of Charles, Duke of Orléans, and his third wife Marie of Cleves. After a previous betrothal to Peter II, Duke of Bourbon,^[2] she married John of Foix on 8 September 1483.^[3]

Issue

She had two children by John of Foix:

• Germaine of Foix (1488–1538)^[4]
  • married Ferdinand II of Aragon, and whose relationship to the Navarrese throne was used as an excuse by Ferdinand to claim the throne of Navarre (see Spanish conquest of Iberian Navarre)
• Gaston of Foix (1489–1512)^[4]
  • served as a general for his uncle Louis XII, killed at the battle of Ravenna in 1512.

Ancestors

Ancestors of Marie of Orléans, Viscountess of Narbonne

8. Charles V of France[5] 4. Louis I, Duke of Orléans[5] 9. Joanna of Bourbon[5] 2. Charles, Duke of Orléans 10. Gian Galeazzo Visconti[5] 5. Valentina Visconti[5] 11. Isabella of Valois[5] (≠ 9) 1. Marie of Orléans 12. Adolph III, Count of the Mark[6] 6. Adolph I, Duke of Cleves[5] 13. Margaret of Jülich[6] 3. Marie of Cleves 14. John II, Duke of Burgundy[7] 7. Mary of Burgundy[5] 15. Margaret of Bavaria[7]

References

1. André Thevet, Portraits from the French Renaissance and the Wars of Religion, transl. Edward Benson, ed. Roger Schlesinger, (Truman State University Press, 2010), 3.
2. Frederic J. Baumgartner, Louis XII, (St. Martin's Press, 1996), 8.
3. Elena Woodacre, The Queens Regnant of Navarre: Succession, Politics, and Partnership, 1274-1512, (Palgrave Macmillan, 2013), 122.
4. Frederic J. Baumgartner, Louis XII, 146.
5. Anselm de Gibours (1726). Histoire généalogique et chronologique de la maison royale de France [Genealogical and chronological history of the royal house of France] (in French). Vol. 1 (3rd ed.). Paris: La compagnie des libraires. pp. 205–208.
6. Ornato, Monique (1981). Répertoire de personnages apparentés à la couronne de France aux XIVe et XVe siècles [Directory of characters related to the crown of France in the 14th and 15th centuries]. Publications de la Sorbonne. p. 145. ISBN 9782859444426.
7. Backhouse, Janet (1997). The illuminated page: ten centuries of manuscript painting in the British Library. p. 166.