Marie of France (18 September 1344 – 15 October 1404) was the sixth child and second daughter of

John II of France John II (; 26 April 1319 – 8 April 1364), called John the Good (French: ''Jean le Bon''), was King of France from 1350 until his death in 1364. When he came to power, France faced several disasters: the Black Death, which killed between a thir ...

and

Bonne of Bohemia Bonne of Luxemburg or Jutta of Luxemburg (20 May 131511 September 1349), was born Jutta (Judith), the second daughter of King John of Bohemia, and his first wife, Elisabeth of Bohemia. She was the first wife of King John II of France; however, a ...

.Jean d'Arras, ''Melusine; or, The Noble History of Lusignan'', transl. Donald Maddox, (The Pennsylvania State University Press, 2012), 234.

Marriage and issue

In 1364, Marie married Robert I, Duke of Bar. Marie had an extensive library and obtained works about a variety of topics. She read romances and poetry, but also works about history and theology.

Jean d'Arras Jean d'Arras ( 1392–1394) was a 14th-century writer from Northern France about whom little is known. He collaborated with Antoine du Val and Fouquart de Cambrai in putting together a collection of stories entitled ''L'Évangile des quenouilles ...

dedicated his ''Roman de Mélusine'' to Marie. Pit Péporté, ''Constructing the Middle Ages: Historiography, Collective Memory and Nation-Building in Luxembourg'', (Brill, 2011), 77. Marie and Robert I were parents to eleven children: *Charles of Bar (d. 1392) *

Henry of Bar Henry of Bar (c. 1362 – October 1397, in Treviso, Italy) was lord of Marle, Aisne, Marle and the Marquis of Pont-à-Mousson, Marquis de Pont-à-Mousson. He was the eldest son of Robert I of Bar and Marie of Valois (1344-1404), Marie of Valois. ...

(d. October 1397) in

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, of the plague; married Marie de Coucy, Countess of Soissons *Philip of Bar (d. 25 September 1396), killed at the

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* Edward III, Duke of Bar (d. 25 October 1415), killed at the

Battle of Agincourt The Battle of Agincourt ( ; ) was an English victory in the Hundred Years' War. It took place on 25 October 1415 (Saint Crispin's Day) near Azincourt, in northern France. The unexpected victory of the vastly outnumbered English troops agains ...

* John of Bar (d. 25 October 1415), killed at the

* Louis, Duke of Bar (d. 1431). Bishop of Verdun and bishop of Chalon, later a

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. He was childless and his designated heir and eventual successor was René I of Naples. *Marie of Bar, married William II, Marquis of Namur in 1384 * Yolande of Bar (c. 1365 - 1431), married John I of Aragon in 1384 *Bonne of Bar, married Waleran III of Luxembourg, Count of Ligny in 1393 *Joanna of Bar (d. 15 January 1402, married Theodore II, Marquis of Montferrat in 1393 *Yolande the Younger of Bar, named after older sister for uncertain reasons, married Adolf, Duke of Jülich-Berg

Notes

External links

A pedigree of the Dukes of Bar
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