Catherine of Vendôme

Catherine of Vendôme
Countess of la Marche
Catherine and John I
Spouse(s) John I, Count of La Marche
Issue
James II, Count of La Marche
Isabelle of La Marche
Louis, Count of Vendôme
John, Lord of Carency
Anne, Countess of Montpensier
Marie, Lady of Croix
Charlotte, Queen of Cyprus
Father John VI of Vendôme
Mother Jeanne of Ponthieu
Born 1354
Died 1412

Catherine de Vendôme (1354  – 1 April 1412), countess of Vendôme and of Castres (1372–1403) was a French noblewoman of the House of Montoire. She was the daughter of John VI of Vendôme and Jeanne of Ponthieu.[1]

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Marriage

In 1364 she married John I, Count of La Marche[2] and they had:

She inherited Vendôme on the death of her niece Jeanne and administered it jointly with her husband then (after his death) with her second son Louis until 1403.

Ancestry

Notes

  1. ^ Broad, Jacqueline and Karen Green, Virtue, liberty, and toleration: political ideas of European women, 1400-1800, (Springer, 2007), 13.
  2. ^ Broad, 13.

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