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French noble
Maria of Cleves
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French noble
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Gender
Female
Place of birth
Duchy of Cleves
Death
23 August 1487 (aged 60 years)
People who died on this day
Place of death
Picardy
Age
60 years
Family
Mother:
Marie of Burgundy, Duchess of Cleves
Father:
Adolph I, Duke of Cleves
Siblings:
Adolph of Cleves
Lord of Ravenstein
John I
Duke of Cleves
Elisabeth of Cleves
Countess of Schwarzburg-Blankenburg
Helen of Cleves
Agnes of Cleves
Margaret of Cleves
Duchess of Bavaria-Munich
Catherine of Cleves
Spouse:
Charles Duke of Orléans
Children:
Louis XII of France
Marie of Orléans
Viscountess of Narbonne
Anne of Orléans
Abbess of Fontevraud
The details (from wikipedia)
Biography
Maria of Cleves (19 September 1426 – 23 August 1487) was the third wife of Charles, Duke of Orléans, and the mother of his only son, King Louis XII of France. She was born a German princess, the last child of Adolph I, Duke of Cleves and his second wife, Marie of Burgundy.
Marriage and issue
At age fourteen, Maria married Charles of Valois, Duke of Orléans, a man 32 years her senior, on 27 November 1440 in Saint-Omer. They had three children:
- Marie of Orléans (19 December 1457 – 1493); married John of Foix, Count of Étampes in 1476
- Louis XII of France (1462–1515)
- Anne of Orléans (1464–1491); became the Abbess of Fontevrault and Poitiers.
Maria was a patron of letters and commissioned many works; she was also an active poet herself, producing ballads and other verses. After the Duke's death she was secretly remarried in 1480 to one of her gentlemen of the chamber, the Artesian "Sieur de Rabodanges", who was some years her junior. She died in Chaunay.
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