Bonne of Luxembourg

{{Infobox royalty

| title = Duchess of Normandy

| image = Bonne of Luxembourg, with her husband Jean.jpg

| caption = Bonne with her husband

| birth_date = 20 May 1315

| birth_place = Prague, Bohemia

| death_date = 11 September 1349 (aged 34)

| death_place = Maubuisson, France

| place of burial = Maubuisson Abbey, France

| spouse = John, Duke of Normandy
(later John II)

| issue = {{ubl|Charles V, King of France|Louis I, Duke of Anjou|John, Duke of Berry|Philip II, Duke of Burgundy|Joan, Queen of Navarre|Marie, Duchess of Bar|Isabella, Countess of Vertus}}

| house = Luxembourg

| father = John, King of Bohemia

| mother = Elizabeth of Bohemia

|}}

Bonne of Luxemburg or Jutta of Luxemburg (20 May 1315{{spaced en dash}}11 September 1349), was born Jutta (Judith), the second daughter of King John of Bohemia,{{sfn|Nicolle|2004|p=17}} and his first wife, Elisabeth of Bohemia.{{sfn|Boehm|Fajt|2005|p=xvi}} She was the first wife of King John II of France; however, as she died a year prior to his accession, she was never a French queen. Jutta was referred to in French historiography as Bonne de Luxembourg, since she was a member of the House of Luxembourg. Among her children were Charles V of France, Philip II, Duke of Burgundy, and Joan, Queen of Navarre.

Biography

In June or July 1315, Jutta was betrothed to the future King Casimir the Great of PolandKazimierz Jasiński: [https://www.wbc.poznan.pl/dlibra/publication/161996/edition/164293/content Polityka małżeńska Władysława Łokietka]. In: Genealogia - rola związków rodzinnych i rodowych w życiu publicznym w Polsce średniowiecznej na tle porównawczym, p. 14. but he married Aldona of Lithuania in 1325 instead.

In 1326, Jutta was next betrothed to Henry of Bar. This arrangement was broken, however, and she stayed at the abbey of Saint-Esprit until her marriage to John, Duke of Normandy and future King John II of France.{{sfn|Hand|2013|p=12}}

File:Jan Jitka.jpg

Jutta was married to John, Duke of Normandy, on 28 July 1332{{sfn|Hand|2013|p=12}} at the Collegiate Church of Notre-Dame, Melun. She was 17 years old, and the future king was 13. Her name Jutta (or Guta), translatable into English as Good (in the feminine case), was changed by the time of her marriage to Bonne (French) or Bona (Latin). Upon marriage, Bonne was the wife of the heir to the French throne, becoming Duchess of Normandy and Countess of Anjou and Maine. The wedding was celebrated in the presence of six thousand guests. The festivities were prolonged by a further two months when the young groom was finally knighted at the cathedral of Notre-Dame in Paris. John was solemnly granted the arms of a knight in front of a prestigious audience bringing together the kings of Bohemia and Navarre, and the dukes of Burgundy, Lorraine and the Brabant.

Bonne was a patron of the arts, the composer Guillaume de Machaut being one of her favorites.{{sfn|Robertson|2002|p=3}}

She died on 11 September 1349 of the bubonic plague in Maubuisson, France at the age of thirty-four.{{sfn|Nicolle|2004|p=17}} She was buried in the Abbey of Maubuisson.{{sfn|Perrot|Reinach|1907|p=448–449}}

Less than six months after Bonne's death, John married Joan I, Countess of Auvergne.

=Issue=

John and Bonne had the following children together:

Charles V of France (21 January 1338{{spaced en dash}}16 September 1380){{sfn|d'Arras|2012|p=234}}
Catherine (1338{{en dash}}1338) died young
Louis I, Duke of Anjou (23 July 1339{{spaced en dash}}20 September 1384){{sfn|d'Arras|2012|p=234}}
John, Duke of Berry (30 November 1340{{spaced en dash}}15 June 1416)
Philip II, Duke of Burgundy (17 January 1342{{spaced en dash}}27 April 1404){{sfn|Vaughan|2005|p=152}}
Joan (24 June 1343{{spaced en dash}}3 November 1373){{sfn|Boehm|Fajt|2005|p=xvi}}
Marie (12 September 1344{{spaced en dash}}October 1404), married Robert, Duke of Bar in 1364{{sfn|d'Arras|2012|p=234}}
Agnes (1345{{en dash}}1349), died young
Margaret (1347{{en dash}}1352), died young
Isabelle (1 October 1348{{spaced en dash}}11 September 1372),{{sfn|Boehm|Fajt|2005|p=xvi}} married Gian Galeazzo Visconti in 1360

Ancestors

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|1= 1. Bonne of Bohemia

|2= 2. John I of Bohemia

|3= 3. Elisabeth of Bohemia

|4= 4. Henry VII, Holy Roman Emperor

|5= 5. Margaret of Brabant

|6= 6. Wenceslaus II of Bohemia

|7= 7. Judith of Habsburg

|8= 8. Henry VI, Count of Luxembourg

|9= 9. Beatrice d'Avesnes

|10= 10. John I, Duke of Brabant

|11= 11. Margaret of Flanders

|12= 12. Ottokar II of Bohemia

|13= 13. Kunigunda of Slavonia

|14= 14. Rudolf I of Germany

|15= 15. Gertrude of Hohenberg

}}

References

Sources

{{cite book |title=Melusine; or The Noble History of Lusignan |first=Jean |last=d'Arras |author-link=Jean d'Arras |translator1-first=Donald |translator1-last=Maddox |translator2-first=Sara |translator2-last=Sturm-Maddox |publisher=Penn State University Press |year=2012 |orig-year=First publ. 1394 |oclc=782252390 }}
{{cite book |title=Prague: The Crown of Bohemia, 1347-1437 |editor-first1=Barbara Drake |editor-last1=Boehm |editor-first2=Jiri |editor-last2=Fajt |editor2-link=Jiří Fajt |publisher=Yale University Press |year=2005 |url=http://resources.metmuseum.org/resources/metpublications/pdf/Prague_The_Crown_of_Bohemia_1347_1437.pdf }}
{{cite book |first=Joni M. |last=Hand |title=Women, Manuscripts and Identity in Northern Europe, 1350-1550 |publisher=Ashgate Publishing |year=2013 |oclc=1067212145 }}
{{cite book |first=David |last=Nicolle |author-link=David Nicolle |title=Poitiers 1356: The Capture of a King |publisher=Osprey Publishing |year=2004 |isbn= 9781841765167 }}
{{cite journal |title=Revue archéologique |journal=Revue Archéologique Ou Recueil de Documents et de Mémoires Relatifs À l'Étude des Monuments et À la Philologie de l'Antiquité et du Moyen Age |issue=Juillet-Decembre 1907 |volume=4-Vol. 9 |editor1-first=Georges |editor1-last=Perrot |editor1-link=Georges Perrot |editor2-first=Salomon |editor2-last=Reinach |editor2-link=Salomon Reinach |language=French |publisher=Ernest Leroux |year=1907 |issn=0035-0737 }}
{{cite book |first=Anne Walters |last=Robertson |title=Guillaume de Machaut and Reims |publisher=Cambridge University Press |year=2002 |oclc=472826512 }}
{{cite book |first=Richard |last=Vaughan |title=Philip the Bold: The Formation of the Burgundian State |publisher=Boydell & Brewer |year=2005 |orig-year=First publ. 1962 |oclc=645377248 }}

Category:1315 births

Category:1349 deaths

Category:14th-century deaths from plague (disease)

Category:14th-century people from Bohemia

Category:14th-century French people

Category:14th-century Luxembourgian people

Category:14th-century women from Bohemia

Category:14th-century French women

Category:14th-century Luxembourgian women

Category:Bohemian princesses

Category:Countesses of Anjou

Category:Countesses of Maine