Suzanne, Duchess of Bourbon

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Suzanne de Bourbon-Beaujeu
Suzanne de Bourbon-Beaujeu

Suzanne of Bourbon (10 May 149128 April 1521, Château de Châtellerault) was Duchess of Bourbon and Auvergne from 1503 to her death.

She was daughter of Peter II of Bourbon and Anne of France, daughter of King Louis XI of France.

On 10 May 1505, at Château du Parc-les-Moulins, Suzanne married her cousin Charles of Bourbon-Montpensier, head of the Montpensier family, a cadet branch of the Bourbons.

By Charles, she had three children:

  • Francis, Count of Clermont. He was born on July 17 1517, and died c.January or February 1518.
  • An unnamed pair of twins. They were born dead, Suzanne having suffered either a miscarriage or a still-birth in the wake of Francis' death.
Preceded by
Peter II
Duchess of Auvergne and Bourbon
Countess of Clermont-en-Beauvaisis, Forez, and La Marche

1503–1521
Succeeded by
Charles III
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