Marie of Cleves, Duchess of Orléans
{{redirect|Mary of Cleves|the princess of Condé|Marie of Cleves, Princess of Condé}}
{{Infobox royalty
| name =Marie of Cleves
| title = Duchess of Orléans
| image = Marie de Clèves (1426-1487).jpg
| caption = Marie of Cleves (or Anne of Cyprus)
| birth_date =19 September 1426
| birth_place =
| death_date ={{death date and age|1487|8|23|1426|9|19|df=y}}
| death_place =Chaunay
| burial_place =Couvent des Célestins, Paris
| spouse ={{Marriage|Charles, Duke of Orléans|1440|1465|end=died}}
| issue = Marie, Viscountess of Narbonne
Louis XII of France
Anne, Abbess of Fontevraud
| full name =
| house =La Marck
| father =Adolph I, Duke of Cleves
| mother =Mary of Burgundy
}}
Marie of Cleves (19 September 1426 – 23 August 1487) was the third wife of Charles, Duke of Orléans. She was born a German princess, the last child of Adolph I, Duke of Cleves and his second wife, Mary of Burgundy.
Marie was a patron of letters and commissioned many works; she was also an active poet herself, producing ballads and other verses.Wilson p. 258 After the Duke's death she was secretly remarried in 1480 to one of her gentlemen of the chamber, the Artesian "Sieur de Rabodanges", who was some years her junior.Holt, p. 231 She died in Chaunay.
Marriage and issue
At the age of fourteen, Marie was married to 46-year-old Charles of Valois, Duke of Orléans, a man 32 years her senior, on 27 November 1440, in Saint-Omer.Arn p. 41 She became his third and last wife. Their eldest child was born fully 17 years after the wedding. They had three children together, being:
- Marie of Orléans, Viscountess of Narbonne (19 December 1457 – 1493); married John of Foix, Viscount of Narbonne in 1483.
- King Louis XII of France (1462–1515)
- Anne of Orléans, Abbess of Fontevraud and Poitiers (1464–1491).
In literature
Marie is a character in Hella Haasse's historical novel about Charles, Duke of Orléans In a Dark Wood Wandering (original Dutch title Het Woud der Verwachting).
Ancestry
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| 1= 1. Marie of Cleves
| 2= 2. Adolph I, Duke of Cleves (1373–1448)
| 3= 3. Mary of Burgundy (1393–1466)
| 4= 4. Adolph I of Kleve-Mark (1334–1394)
| 5= 5. Margaret of Jülich (c.1350–1425/29)
| 6= 6. John I, Duke of Burgundy (1371–1419)
| 7= 7. Margaret of Bavaria (1363–1424)
| 8= 8. Adolph II of the Mark (c.1314–1347)
| 9= 9. Margaret of Cleves (c.1310-aft 1348)
|10= 10. Gerhard VI of Jülich, Count of Berg and Ravensberg (c.1325–1360)
|11= 11. Margaret of Ravensberg (c.1320–1389)
|12= 12. Philip II, Duke of Burgundy (1343–1404)
|13= 13. Margaret III, Countess of Flanders (1393–1466)
|14= 14. Albert I, Duke of Bavaria (1350–1405)
|15= 15. Margaret of Brieg (1342–1386)
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Notes
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References
- Arn, Mary-Jo. Charles d'Orléans in England, 1415-1440. Cambridge; Rochester, NY, USA : D.S. Brewer, 2000. [https://books.google.com/books?id=1_dxcXLZ5AwC&q=Charles+d'Orleans+in+England+1415-1440. googlebooks] Retrieved August 17, 2009
- Wilson, Katharina M. An Encyclopedia of Continental Women Writers. Vol. 2 New York: Garland Pub, 1991. [https://books.google.com/books?id=2Wf1SVbGFg8C&pg=PA258 googlebooks]
- Holt, Emily Sarah. Memoirs of Royal Ladies. London : Hurst and Blackett, 1861. [https://books.google.com/books?id=J2ABAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA231 googlebooks]
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Category:People from the Duchy of Cleves
Category:15th-century French people
Category:15th-century French women