Isabelle of Burgundy

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Isabelle of Burgundy (1270 - August, 1323), Lady of Vieux-Château, was the second and last Queen consort of Rudolph I of Germany.

1 Family
2 Marriages
3 Descendants
4 External links

[edit] Family

She was the second daughter of Hugh IV, Duke of Burgundy and his second wife Beatrice of Champagne.

Her maternal grandparents were Theobald I of Navarre, also Count of Champagne, and his third wife Margaret of Bourbon.

Margaret was a daughter of Archambaud VIII de Bourbon, Sire de Bourbon from 1216 to 1242, and his first wife Guigone de Forez.

[edit] Marriages

She was betrothed in 1272 to Charles of of Flandres. He was born in 1266 to the later Robert III of Flanders and his first wife Blanche of Sicily. His maternal grandparents were Charles I of Sicily and Beatrice of Provence. Her betrothed died in 1277.

On 6 February 1284, Isabelle married Rudolph I of Germany. The bride was fourteen years old and the groom almost sixty-six. She seems to have been younger that eight of his children from his previous marriage to Gertrude of Hohenburg. She was a year older than her step-daughter Judith of Habsburg, his ninth child and wife of Wenceslaus II of Bohemia.

Their marriage remained childless. Rudolph died on 15 July 1291. He was succeeded as Duke of Austria by his co-ruling sons Albert I and Rudolph II.

She returned to the Court of Burgundy and was granted the title of Lady of Vieux-Château on 20 November 1294

She had a second marriage to Pierre IX de Chambly, Lord of Neaufles who died c. 1319.

[edit] Descendants

Isabelle and Pierre de Chambly had at least one daughter and through her further descendants:

Jeanne de Chambly, Dame de Neauphle-le-Chateau. Married first Philippe de Vienne, Lord of Pagny (1317 - 1353) and secondly Jean de Vergy, Lord of Mirebeau.
- Hugues de Vienne, Lord of Pagny (1335 - 1374), also Lord of Choye. Married Henriette of Chalon-Auxerre, a daughter of Jean II of Chalon, Count of Auxerre.
  - Jean de Vienne, Lord of Pagny (d. 1436). Married Henriette de Vergy.
  - Henri de Vienne, Lord of Neublans (1365 - 1429). Married Jeanne de Gouhenans.
    - Jean de Vienne, Lord of Neublans (1390 - 1430), also Lord of Essoyes. Married Henriette de Grandson.
      - Gerard de Vienne, Lord of Pagny (d. 1437). Succeeded his father as Lord of Essoyes in 1430 and his great-uncle Jean de Vienne as Lord of Pany in 1436.
    - Jeanne de Vienne. Married Chevalier Guillaume, Knight de Grandson.
      - Simon de Grandson. Married Catherine of Lorraine.
        
        Helyon de Grandson. Married Avoye of Neufchatel.
        
        Benigne de Grandson. Married Francois de Vienne.
        
        Anne de Vienne. Married Louis Motier de La Fayette.
        
        Jacqueline Motier de La Fayette. Married Guy de Daillon.
        
        Antoinette de Daillon. Married Philibert de Gauche.
        
        Anne de la Guiche. Married Henri de Schomberg, Count of Nanteuil.
        
        Jeanne Armande de Schomberg. Married Charles II de Rohan, Duke of Montbazon.
        
        Charles III de Rohan, Duke of Montbazon. Married Charlotte Elizabeth de Cochefilet.
        
        Charles de Rohan, Prince of Rohan-Rochefort. Married Eleonore Eugenie of Bethisy.
        
        Louise de Rohan. Married Louis III of Lorraine, Prince of Brionne.
        
        Josepha of Lorraine. Married Victor Amadeus II, Prince of Savoy-Carignan.
        
        Charles Emmanuel of Savoy, 6th Prince of Carignan. Married Princess Maria Christina of Saxony.
        
        Charles Albert of Sardinia. See his article for further descenants.
- Guillaume de Vergy, Lord of Mirebeau (d. 1374). Married Agnès de Jonvelle, Lady of Jonvelle.