Marie of Armagnac
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{{Infobox royalty
| name = Marie of Armagnac
| title = Duchess of Alençon
| spouse = {{marriage|John II of Alençon|1437}}
| issue = Catherine of Alençon
René of Alençon
| father = John IV of Armagnac
| mother = Isabella of Navarre
| birth_date = 1420
| death_date = 25 July {{death year and age|1473|1420}}
| death_place = Cloister Mortagne-au-Perche
| house = Armagnac
}}
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Marie of Armagnac (c. 1420–1473) was a French noblewoman, daughter of John IV of Armagnac and his second wife, Isabella of Navarre.{{sfn|des Noes|2004|p=71}}
Marriage and children
On 30 April 1437, Marie became the second wife of John II of Alençon.{{sfn|Potter|1995|p=375}} Their marriage was at the Chateau L'Isle-Jourdain. They had two surviving children:
- Catherine (1452–1505){{sfn|Pernoud|Clin|1998|p=173}}
- René of Alençon (1454–1492).{{sfn|Potter|1995|p=375}}
Marie died on 25 July 1473 at Cloister Mortagne-au-Perche. Her husband died three years later, on 8 September 1476 in Paris.
References
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Sources
- {{cite book |title=Procédures politiques du règne de Louis XI: le procès de René d'Alençon, comte du Perche, 1481-1483 |volume=1 |first=François Bouvier |last=des Noes |language=French |publisher=Atelier national de reproduction des thèses |year=2004 }}
- {{cite book |title=Joan of Arc: Her Story |first1=Regine |last1=Pernoud |first2=Narue-Veronique |last2=Clin |translator-first=Jeremy duQuesnay |translator-last=Adams |editor-first=Bonnie |editor-last=Wheeler |publisher=St. Martin's Press |year=1998 }}
- {{cite book |title=A History of France, 1460–1560: The Emergence of a Nation State |first=David |last=Potter |editor-first=Maurice |editor-last=Keen |publisher=Macmillan |year=1995 }}
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{{succession box|title=Duchess of Alençon|before=Jeanne of Valois|after=Marguerite of Tancarville|years=1437–1473}}
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Category:House of Valois-Alençon
Category:15th-century French women
Category:15th-century French nobility
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