Marie of Cleves (19 September 1426 – 23 August 1487) was the third wife of

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. She was born a German princess, the last child of

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and his second wife, Mary of Burgundy. Marie was a patron of letters and commissioned many works; she was also an active poet herself, producing ballads and other verses.Wilson p. 258 After the Duke's death she was secretly remarried in 1480 to one of her gentlemen of the chamber, the

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"Sieur de Rabodanges", who was some years her junior. She died in

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Marriage and issue

At the age of fourteen, Marie was married to 46-year-old Charles of Valois, Duke of Orléans, a man 32 years her senior, on 27 November 1440, in Saint-Omer.Arn p. 41 She became his third and last wife. Their eldest child was born fully 17 years after the wedding. They had three children together, being: *

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(19 December 1457 – 1493); married

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in 1483. * King Louis XII of France (1462–1515) *

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and

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(1464–1491).

In literature

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'' (original Dutch title ''Het Woud der Verwachting'').

Ancestry

Notes

References

*Arn, Mary-Jo. ''Charles d'Orléans in England, 1415-1440.'' Cambridge; Rochester, NY, USA : D.S. Brewer, 2000
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Retrieved August 17, 2009 *Wilson, Katharina M. ''An Encyclopedia of Continental Women Writers.'' Vol. 2 New York: Garland Pub, 1991
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*Holt, Emily Sarah. ''Memoirs of Royal Ladies.'' London : Hurst and Blackett, 1861
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