Marie of Orléans, 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 of Foix, Duke of Nemours
House	House of Valois-Orléans
Father	Charles, Duke of Orléans
Mother	Marie of Cleves

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 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 1476.^[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.

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.

Ancestors

Ancestors of Marie of Orléans, Viscountess of Narbonne

16. John II of France               8. Charles V of France                       17. Bonne of Bohemia               4. Louis I de Valois, Duke of Orléans                             18. Peter I, Duke of Bourbon               9. Joanna of Bourbon                       19. Isabella of Valois               2. Charles, Duke of Orléans                                   20. Galeazzo II Visconti               10. Gian Galeazzo Visconti                       21. Bianca of Savoy               5. Valentina Visconti                             22. = 16. John II of France               11. Isabelle of Valois                       23. = 17. Bonne of Bohemia               1. Marie of Orléans                                         24. Adolph II, Count of Mark               12. Adolph III, Count of Mark                       25. Margaret of Cleves               6. Adolph I, Duke of Cleves                             26. Gerhard VI of Jülich               13. Margaret of Julich                       27. Margaret of Ravensberg               3. Marie of Cleves                                   28. Philip II, Duke of Burgundy               14. John II, Duke of Burgundy                       29. Margaret III, Countess of Flanders               7. Mary of Burgundy                             30. Albert I, Duke of Bavaria               15. Margaret of Bavaria                       31. Margaret of Brieg