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Anne of Auvergne
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Anne as Duchess of Bourbon
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Born
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Died
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1417-09-22
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22 September 1417
Moulins
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Noble family
| House of Auvergne
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Spouse(s)
| Louis II, Duke of Bourbon
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Father
| Beraud II, Dauphin of Auvergne
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Mother
| Jeanne of Forez
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Anne of Auvergne
also known as
Anna d'Auvergne
(1358 – 22 September 1417)
[1]
was Sovereign Dauphine of
Auvergne
1400-1417 and Countess of
Forez
in 1372-1417 as well as Dame de Mercoeur
[2]
from 1400 and 1417. She was also Duchess of Bourbon by marriage to
Louis II, Duke of Bourbon
.
Life
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Anne's mother,
Jeanne d'Ussel
, died when she was around eleven years of age. Her father remarried two more times; she gained several half-siblings from her father's third marriage to Margaret of Sancerre.
Duchess of Bourbon
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Anne was betrothed to her cousin
Louis
when she was ten years old. The marriage contract was signed at
Montbrison
on 4 July 1368 and the pair were married in person at
Ardes
in January 1370. Due to the fact that the couple were cousins, a papal dispensation was required; this was granted to them by the Pope on 15 September 1370.
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citation needed
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Countess of Forez
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On 15 May 1372, Anne's uncle, John Count of Forez, died leaving no children. Anne was his heir, as all of John's siblings had died including Anne's mother Jeanne and she had been the only one to leave a child, namely Anne. At the time of her accession, Anne was still only a minor (aged fourteen) so her grandmother, Joan of Clermont, acted as
regent
until Anne reached her majority, at which time she ruled together with Louis.
Dauphine of Auvergne
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In 1400, Anne's father died and he left her the Dauphinate of Auvergne, which she ruled over for the next seventeen years. Anne also founded an anniversary for her stepmother Margaret
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Ten years after the death of her father, Anne was widowed; her husband, Louis, died in 1410 at
Montlucon
and their older son John succeeded him as duke. Anne ruled over her Dauphinate for another seven years, until her own death at
Moulins
on 22 September 1417. She was outlived by her son John and daughter Isabelle; her son inherited Forez and her grandson,
Louis I, Count of Montpensier
, eventually inherited the Dauphinate.
Issue
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- Catherine of Bourbon (b. 1378), d. young
- John of Bourbon
(1381–1434), Duke of Bourbon
- Louis of Bourbon (1388 – 1404), Sieur de
Beaujeu
- Isabelle of Bourbon (1384 – aft. 1451), engaged to
Eric of Pomerania
but eventually became a nun.
Of their four children, John and Isabelle reached adulthood; only John having had children of his own.
References
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- Dominique Laurent, ≪ Anne Dauphine, duchesse de Bourbon, comtesse de Forez et dame de Beaujeu ≫, in Forez et Bourbon. Les ducs de Bourbon, maitres du Forez aux XIVe et XVe siecles, Actes du colloque de Montbrison du 23 octobre 2010, sous la direction d'Olivier Troubat et Christophe Mathevot, Montbrison, La Diana, 2011 (
ISBN
978-2-911623-23-3
), pp. 25?39.
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