Anne de La Tour d'Auvergne (1496–1524) was sovereign Countess of Auvergne from 1501 until 1524, and Duchess of Albany by marriage to

John Stewart, Duke of Albany John Stewart, 2nd Duke of Albany (8 July 14822 July 1536) was the regent of the Kingdom of Scotland and the count of Auvergne and Lauraguais in France. Early life John was a son of Alexander Stewart, Duke of Albany, son of King James II of S ...

. In her marriage contract, she was called 'Anne de Boulogne fille de Jehan Comte de Boulogne et Auvergne.'

Family

She was the eldest of two daughters born to Jean III of la Tour d'Auvergne and

Jeanne of Bourbon Joanna of Bourbon (''Jeanne de Bourbon''; 3 February 1338 – 6 February 1378) was Queen of France by marriage to King Charles V. She acted as his political adviser and was appointed potential regent in case of a minor regency. Life Early ...

. Her younger sister was

Madeleine de La Tour d'Auvergne Madeleine de La Tour d'Auvergne (1498 – 28 April 1519) was a younger daughter of Jean III de La Tour (1467– 28 March 1501), Count of Auvergne and Lauraguais, and Jeanne de Bourbon, Duchess of Bourbon (1465–1511). She was a penu ...

, who would marry

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and become the mother of

Catherine de' Medici Catherine de' Medici ( it, Caterina de' Medici, ; french: Catherine de Médicis, ; 13 April 1519 – 5 January 1589) was an Florentine noblewoman born into the Medici family. She was Queen of France from 1547 to 1559 by marriage to King ...

. As the elder daughter, Anne was her father's heiress.

Marriage

On 13 July 1505, she married her first cousin

, the intermittent

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to the

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and its sometime-

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, who lived in France as a sort of exile.

Death and inheritance

Anne died in 1524 at her castle of Saint-Saturnin, leaving her inheritance (the feudal

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) to her niece,

(born 1519), daughter of her late younger sister Madeleine and

Lorenzo II, Duke of Urbino Lorenzo di Piero de' Medici (; 12 September 1492 – 4 May 1519) was the ruler of Florence from 1516 until his death in 1519. He was also Duke of Urbino during the same period. His daughter Catherine de' Medici became Queen Consort of Franc ...

. A manuscript detailing Anne's inheritance, with pictures of her castles in Auvergne, and her descent from the legendary Belle Moree, daughter of a Pharaoh, survives in the Royal Library of

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. The

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has another manuscript version of this fabulous genealogy, and a similar inventory of Auvergne castles made for Catherine de' Medici. Anne and the Duke of Albany were painted in a stained-glass window at Vic-le-Comte.Stuart, Marie W., ''The Scot who was a Frenchman'', (1940), 293: Luneau, Jean-François, ''Revue de l'Art'', vol. 107, (1995), 17-26,

Ancestry

References

Sources

* * Coombs, B.,
The Artistic Patronage of John Stuart, Duke of Albany, 1518-19: The 'Discovery' of the Artist and Author, Bremond Domat
, ''The Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland'', 144 (2014). * Coombs, B.,
The Artistic Patronage of John Stuart, Duke of Albany, 1520-1530: Vic-le-Comte, the Last Sainte-Chapelle
, ''Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland'', 147 (2017). {{DEFAULTSORT:Tour dAuvergne, Anne De La 1496 births 1524 deaths Dukes of Auvergne

Anne Anne, alternatively spelled Ann, is a form of the Latin female given name Anna. This in turn is a representation of the Hebrew Hannah, which means 'favour' or 'grace'. Related names include Annie. Anne is sometimes used as a male name in the ...

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