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Mary of Avesnes

French noblewoman (1280–1354)

Summary

French noblewoman (1280–1354)

Field	Value
name	Mary of Avesnes
image	MarieAvesnes.jpg
caption	Mary of Avesnes
house	Avesnes
father	John II, Count of Holland
mother	Philippa of Luxembourg
spouse
issue	Peter I, Duke of Bourbon
Jeanne
Marguerite
Marie of Bourbon
James I, Count of La Marche
issue-link	#Life
birth_date	1280
birth_place	Valenciennes, Nord, France
death_date
death_place	France

Jeanne Marguerite Marie of Bourbon James I, Count of La Marche | issue-link = #Life Marie of Hainaut (1280 – 1354) was the daughter of John II, Count of Holland and Philippa of Luxembourg, and her brother was William I, Count of Hainaut.

Family

Her nieces by her brother William were Margaret II, Countess of Hainaut who married Louis IV, Holy Roman Emperor; and Philippa of Hainault, Queen of England, who married Edward III and was the mother of nine surviving children including Edward, the Black, Prince of Wales, father of Richard II, and John of Gaunt, father of Henry IV, and founder of the House of Lancaster.

Life

In 1310 Mary married Louis I, Duke of Bourbon, son of Robert, Count of Clermont and Beatrix of Bourbon. They had eight children,

Peter I, Duke of Bourbon (1311–1356), killed at the Battle of Poitiers
Jeanne (1312–1402), married in 1324 Guigues VII, Count of Forez
Marguerite (1313–1362), married on July 6, 1320 Jean II de Sully, married in 1346 Hutin de Vermeilles
Marie of Bourbon (1315–1387, Naples), married first in Nicosia in January 1330 Guy of Lusignan (d. 1343), titular Prince of Galilee, married second on September 9, 1347 Robert of Taranto, the titular Latin Emperor. Only her first marriage produced surviving children.
Philip (1316 – aft. 1327)
James (1318)
James I, Count of La Marche (1319 – 1362), killed at the Battle of Brignais
Beatrice of Bourbon, Queen of Bohemia (1320 – December 23, 1383, Danvillers), married first at Vincennes in 1334 John of Luxembourg, King of Bohemia as his second wife, married herself second c. 1347 Eudes II of Grancey (d. 1389)

Ancestry

Sources

References

(23 November 2016). "A Breakthrough in C-Section History: Beatrice of Bourbon's Survival in 1337". [[New York Times]].

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