Charles of Orléans (1459 – 1 January 1496) () was the
Count of Angoulême from 1467 until his death. He succeeded his father,
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, and was initially under the regency of his mother, Marguerite de Rohan, assisted by Jean I de La Rochefoucauld, one of his vassals.
Charles commissioned the luxuriously illustrated ''
Heures de Charles d'Angoulême''.
Family
Charles was a grandson of
Louis I, Duke of Orléans, a younger son of King
Charles V of France
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. He was thus a member of the Orléans cadet branch of the ruling
House of Valois
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. The Orléans came to the throne in 1498 in the person of Charles's cousin
Louis XII
Louis XII (27 June 14621 January 1515), was King of France from 1498 to 1515 and King of Naples from 1501 to 1504. The son of Charles, Duke of Orléans, and Maria of Cleves, he succeeded his 2nd cousin once removed and brother in law at the tim ...
, who was followed in 1515 by Charles's own son
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.
Marriage and issue
Charles married
Louise of Savoy
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, daughter of
Philip the Landless and
Margaret of Bourbon, on 16 February 1488.
They had:
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Marguerite of Angoulême (11 April 1492 – 21 December 1549)
*
François of Angoulême (12 September 1494 – 31 March 1547), who became
King of France as Francis I.
Charles also had two illegitimate daughters by his mistress Jeanne (often mistakenly called Antoinette by confusion with a member of a quite distinct family by the same name) de Polignac, Dame de Combronde, who was his wife's
lady-in-waiting:
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Jeanne d'Angoulême (c. 1490 – after 1531/1538), married firstly Jean Aubin, Seigneur de Malicorne, and secondly, Jean IV de Longwy, Baron of Pagny, by whom she had three daughters. The youngest,
Jacqueline de Longwy
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(died 28 August 1561), in her own turn married
Louis III de Bourbon, Duke of Montpensier
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.
* Madeleine d'Angoulême, Abbess of Fontevrault (died 26 October 1543)
He also had an illegitimate daughter by mistress Jeanne Le Conte:
* Souveraine d'Angoulême (died 23 February 1551), married Michel III de Gaillard, Seigneur de Chilly. In 1534 Married French Ambassador Louis de Perreau, Sieur de Castillon.
Ancestry
References
Sources
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House of Valois-Angoulême
Counts of Angoulême
1459 births
1496 deaths
15th-century peers of France
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