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Marie of Cleves, Duchess of Orléans

Field	Value
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
death_date
death_place	Chaunay
burial_place	Couvent des Célestins, Paris
spouse
issue	Marie, Viscountess of Narbonne
Louis XII of France
Anne, Abbess of Fontevraud
house	La Marck
father	Adolph I, Duke of Cleves
mother	Mary of Burgundy

Louis XII of France Anne, Abbess of Fontevraud Marie of Cleves (19 September 1426 – 23 August 1487) was the third wife of Charles I, 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. 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. She died in Chaunay.

Marriage and issue

On 27 November 1440, in Saint-Omer, the 14-year-old Marie was married to the 46-year-old Charles of Valois, Duke of Orléans, who was 32 years her senior. She was his third and final wife. They had three children together, the first of whom was born 17 years after their wedding:

Marie of Orléans, Viscountess of Narbonne (19 December 1457 – 1493); married John of Foix, Viscount of Narbonne in 1483, had issue.
King Louis XII of France (1462–1515); married firstly Joan of France in 1476, annulled in 1498, no issue; secondly Anne, Duchess of Brittany, in 1499, had issue; and thirdly Mary Tudor in 1518, no issue.
Anne of Orléans, Abbess of Fontevraud and Poitiers (1464–1491); died unmarried, no issue.

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).

Notes

References

Arn, Mary-Jo. Charles d'Orléans in England, 1415-1440. Cambridge; Rochester, NY, USA : D.S. Brewer, 2000. googlebooks Retrieved August 17, 2009
Wilson, Katharina M. An Encyclopedia of Continental Women Writers. Vol. 2 New York: Garland Pub, 1991. googlebooks
Holt, Emily Sarah. Memoirs of Royal Ladies. London : Hurst and Blackett, 1861. googlebooks

References

Wilson p. 258
Holt, p. 231
Arn p. 41

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