Marie of Cleves

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Marie, Countess Of Cleves (19 September 1426 - 23 August 1487 was born in Prussia to Adolph I of Cleves and Marie of Burgundy. On 27 November 1440 at the age of 14 she married Charles of Valois, Duke of Orléans they had three children:

• Marie d' Orléans (19 December 1457 – 1493). She married Jean of Foix, Count of Étampes in 1476.
• Louis XII of France (1462–1515)
• Anne d' Orléans (1464–1491), Abbess of Fontevrault and Poitiers.

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Darwin, Francis Darwin Swift. "Louis d'Orléans (1372-1407) a necessary prologue to the tragedy of La Pucelle d'Orleans". London: J. Murray. 1936.