Maria de la Cerda y de Lara (1319 – 13 March 1375) was the youngest daughter of Fernando de la Cerda and his wife

Juana Núñez de Lara Juana Núñez de Lara (1286 – 1351) was a daughter of Juan Núñez de Lara ''the Fat'' and his wife Teresa Díaz II de Haro of the lordship of Biscay. Juana is also known as la Palomilla or Lady of Lara. Life Juana was first married to Infan ...

. Maria was a member of the Castilian House of Burgundy. By her second marriage she was Countess of Alençon.

Life

Maria was a younger sister of

Juan Núñez III de Lara Juan III Núñez de Lara y de la Cerda (born Juan Fdez. de la Cerda y Núñez de Lara: 1313 - Burgos, 28 November 1350), Lord of Lara and Vizcaya, son of Ferdinand de la Cerda (1275–1322) and Juana Núñez de Lara ''the Little Dove''. Despit ...

and Blanca de la Cerda y Lara. When she was only three years of age her father died, her mother died twenty-nine years later in 1351. In April 1335 at

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, Maria married her first husband Charles d'Évreux. They were married for only a year but had twin sons. On the 5 September 1336 Charles died leaving Maria a seventeen-year-old widow with her two young sons. Maria remarried only three months after Charles' death to

Charles II, Count of Alençon Charles II of Alençon, called the Magnanimous (1297 – 26 August 1346) was Count of Alençon and Count of Perche (1325–1346), as well as Count of Chartres and Count of Joigny (1335–1336) as husband of Jeanne of Joigny. Life ...

. It was a second marriage for them both, Charles' first wife Jeanne of Joigny had died the previous year. They were married for nine years when Charles died at the

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. Maria died in

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on 13 March 1375 and was buried beside her second husband in the now-demolished church of the Couvent des Jacobins in

- their effigies are now in the Basilica of St Denis.

Children

With Charles d'Évreux she had twin sons: #

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(1336–1400), married Jeanne (d. 1389), daughter of

Raoul I of Brienne, Count of Eu Raoul I of Brienne (died 19 January 1344, Paris) was the son of John II of Brienne, Count of Eu and Jeanne, Countess of Guînes. He succeeded his father as Count of Eu in 1302, and his mother as Count of Guînes in 1332. In 1329, he was named C ...

# John (1336 – aft. 1373,

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) With Charles II of Alençon she had the following children: # Charles III of Alençon (1337 – 5 July 1375,

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) #

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(1338–1397, Rome), made

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in 1356, later Cardinal,

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, Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem,

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, and

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and

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# Peter II of Alençon (1340 – 20 September 1404) # Isabelle (1342 – 3 September 1379,

), became a nun #

Robert of Alençon Robert of Alençon (1344–1377) was the son of Charles II of Alençon and Maria de La Cerda y Lara. He succeeded his father in 1346 as Count of Perche The county of Perche was a medieval county lying between Normandy and Maine. It was held by ...

(1344–1377), Count of Perche, married 5 April 1374 Jeanne, daughter of Viscount John I of Rohan

References

Sources

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Cerda y Lara, Maria de la 1319 births 1375 deaths

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