Mary of Avesnes

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(m. 1310; died 1341)​
HouseAvesnesFatherJohn II, Count of HollandMotherPhilippa of Luxembourg

Marie of Hainaut (1280 – 1354) was the daughter of John II, Count of Holland and Philippa of Luxembourg, and her brother was William I, Count of Hainaut.

Family

Her nieces by her brother William were Margaret II, Countess of Hainaut who married Louis IV, Holy Roman Emperor; and Philippa of Hainault, Queen of England, who married Edward III and was the mother of nine surviving children including Edward, the Black, Prince of Wales, father of Richard II, and John of Gaunt, father of Henry IV, and founder of the House of Lancaster.

Life

In 1310 Mary married Louis I, Duke of Bourbon,[1] son of Robert, Count of Clermont and Beatrix of Bourbon. They had eight children,

  1. Peter I, Duke of Bourbon (1311–1356), killed at the Battle of Poitiers
  2. Jeanne (1312–1402), married in 1324 Guigues VII, Count of Forez
  3. Marguerite (1313–1362), married on July 6, 1320 Jean II de Sully, married in 1346 Hutin de Vermeilles
  4. Marie of Bourbon (1315–1387, Naples), married first in Nicosia in January 1330 Guy of Lusignan (d. 1343), titular Prince of Galilee, married second on September 9, 1347 Robert of Taranto, the titular Latin Emperor. Only her first marriage produced surviving children.
  5. Philip (1316 – aft. 1327)
  6. James (1318)
  7. James I, Count of La Marche (1319 – 1362), killed at the Battle of Brignais
  8. Beatrice of Bourbon, Queen of Bohemia[2] (1320 – December 23, 1383, Danvillers), married first at Vincennes in 1334 John of Luxembourg, King of Bohemia as his second wife, married herself second c. 1347 Eudes II of Grancey (d. 1389)

Ancestry

Ancestors of Mary of Avesnes
16. James of Avesnes
8. Bouchard IV of Avesnes
17. Adela of Guise
4. John I of Avesnes
18. Baldwin I of Constantinople
9. Margaret II, Countess of Flanders
19. Marie of Champagne
2. John II, Count of Holland
20. William I of Holland
10. Floris IV, Count of Holland
21. Adelaide of Guelders
5. Adelaide of Holland
22. Henry I, Duke of Brabant
11. Matilde of Brabant
23. Mathilde of Flanders
1. Mary of Avesnes
24. Henry III of Limburg
12. Waleran III of Limburg
25. Sophia of Saarbrücken
6. Henry V of Luxembourg
26. Henry IV of Luxembourg
13. Ermesinda of Luxembourg
27. Agnes of Guelders
3. Philippa of Luxembourg
28. Theobald I, Count of Bar
14. Henry II, Count of Bar
29. Ermesinde of Bar-sur-Seine
7. Margaret of Bar
30. Robert II, Count of Dreux
15. Philippa of Dreux
31. Youlande de Coucy

Sources

  1. ^ Griffiths 1993, p. 78.
  2. ^ Goeij, Hana de (23 November 2016). "A Breakthrough in C-Section History: Beatrice of Bourbon's Survival in 1337". New York Times. p. A17. Retrieved 24 November 2016.

Sources

  • Griffiths, Quentin (1993). "The Nesles of Picardy in the Service of the Last Capetians". Francia. 20 No. 1: 69–78.