Madeleine de la Tour d'Auvergne

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Madeleine de la Tour d´Auvergne

Madeleine de La Tour d'Auvergne (c. 1500? – April 28, 1519) was a penultimate representative of the senior branch of the house de La Tour d'Auvergne. She married Duke Lorenzo II de' Medicis in Château d'Amboise on May 5, 1518.

Madeleine's parents were Jean III de La Tour (1467–March 28, 1501), Count of Auvergne and Lauraguais, and a princess of Bourbon (1465–1511) whose name was either Jeanne or Catherine.

She died in Italy together with her husband due to plague, having just given birth to a daughter - Catherine de' Medici (1519–1589), the future Queen of France.

Madeleine's elder sister Anne, who inherited Auvergne and married John Stewart, 2nd Duke of Albany, outlived Madeleine by five years but died childless, after which the Counties of Auvergne and Boulogne as well as the barony of La Tour passed to Madeleine's daughter Catherine de Medici and then to the French crown.

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