Marie d'Alençon (29 March 1373 – 1417) was a French noblewoman, a Princess of the Blood, and the wife of Jean VII of Harcourt,

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and of Aumale, Viscount of Châtellerault, Baron of Elbeuf, of Mézières, of Lillebone, of La Saussaye.

Family

Marie was born on 29 March 1373, at the Chateau d'Essay,

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, and Marie Chamaillart, Viscountess of Beaumont-au-Maine. Marie's father was knighted in 1350. At the

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in 1356, he was taken hostage in exchange for King

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, and he did not return home until 1370. On 20 October 1371, he married Marie Chamaillart (died 18 November 1425 at Chateau d'Argentan), by whom he had eight children. Marie was their eldest child.

List of siblings

* Pierre d'Alençon (1374 – 1375) * Jean d'Alençon (1375 – 1376) * Marie d'Alençon (1377 – 1377) * Jeanne d'Alençon (1378 – 6 August 1403) *

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(1380

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– 25 June 1462. She married firstly in 1411, Peter d' Évreux, Infante of

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, and secondly on 1 October 1413,

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, Duke of

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. By her last marriage she had a son Johann (Born 6 February 1415) and an unnamed daughter. Both children died young. * Marguerite d'Alençon (1383- after 1400). Nun at Argentan. *

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(9 May 1385- 25 October 1415 at The

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). On 26 June 1396, he married Marie of Brittany (18 February 1391- 18 December 1446). They had five children, including his heir,

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Marriage

Marie married John VII, Count of Harcourt and of Aumale (1369 – 18 December 1452) in Paris on 17 March 1390 shortly before her seventeenth birthday. He was the son of

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, Count of Harcourt, and Catherine de Bourbon. The marriage produced three children. Marie died in 1417 about two years after her husband, having distinguished himself at the Battle of Agincourt, was taken prisoner by the victorious English troops, led by King

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. John died in 1452.

Issue

* Jean VIII of Harcourt, Count of Aumale (9 April 1396 Chateau d'Harcourt, Calvados – 17 August 1424 at the

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). He was the senior French commander at the battle. By mistress Marguerite de Preullay, he had one illegitimate son, Louis II of Harcourt * Marie of Harcourt, Countess of Aumale (9 September 1398 Chateau d'Harcourt, Calvados – 19 April 1476). She married, on 12 August 1416,

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, Count of Vaudémont, Sire of Joinville (1401 – 22 March 1458), by whom she had five children including Frederic II of Vaudémont, Count of Vaudemont, Sire of Joinville (May 1428 – 31 August 1470

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), who in his turn in 1445, married

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of Anjou, elder sister of

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, Queen-consort of England. * Jeanne of Harcourt, Countess of Harcourt (11 September 1399 Chateau d' Harcourt, Calvados -1456). She married firstly in 1414, Jean, Seigneur de Rieux et de Rochfort, Baron d'Ancenis (died 1431). She married secondly in 1434, Bertrand de Dinan, Baron de Chateaubriant, Marshal of

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. She had issue.

Ancestry

References

# Pére Anselm "Histoire des Rois de France" # "The Royal Family: A Genealogy" by François Velde # le Maison des Ducs D'Alençon # Stammtafeln zur Geschichte der Europaischen Staaten, 4 volumes, Marburg, 1953, 1975 {{DEFAULTSORT:Dalencon, Marie 1373 births 1417 deaths French princesses

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