Yolande II or Yolande of Nevers (), (December 1247 – 2 June 1280) was ruling Countess of Nevers between 1262 and 1280.

Life

She was the daughter of Odo of Burgundy, and Matilda II, Countess of Nevers.Guida Myrl Jackson-Laufer, ''Women Rulers Throughout the Ages: An Illustrated Guide'', (ABC-CLIO, 1999), 425. On the death of her mother in 1262, Yolande, became the titular countess of Nevers, Tonnerre and Auxerre. However, in 1273 the arbitrators at the Parlement de Paris decided that the inheritance would be split among the sisters: Yolande got Nevers and the Château de Druyes, while her sisters

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and

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inherited Tonnerre and Auxerre, respectively. Their aunt Agnes received the Bourbon fiefs. Her first marriage was to John Tristan, Count of Valois, son of

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and

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, in June 1265; they had no children, and he died of

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in 1270 at

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while on the

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. Upon the death of her paternal grandfather,

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, in 1272, after their marriage in Auxerre the same year, Yolande and her influential second husband,

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, claimed the Duchy of Burgundy on the basis of primogeniture, being the first-born child of Hugh's deceased eldest son. Hugh IV, however, in his will named his third son, Robert, as heir to the Duchy while giving other fiefs to his granddaughters. King

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, one of the arbitrators, decided in favor of her uncle, who thus became Duke Robert II, on the basis of

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Issue

Yolande's children with

, were: *

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(1272–1322), Count of Nevers and of Réthel. His son was

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(d. 1331), Seigneur of Marle and of Cassel, married (1323) Joan of Brittany (1294–1364), daughter of Arthur II of Brittany, and Yolande, countess of Montfort, producing: ** John, Seigneur of Cassel (d. 1332) ** Yolande (1331–1395), married Henry IV of Bar. * Joan (d. 1333), married in 1288 Enguerrand IV of Coucy (d. 1310), Seigneur of Coucy and Viscount of Meaux * Yolande (d. 1313), married in about 1287 Wautier II of Enghien (d. 1309) * Matilda, married about 1314 in Matthieu of Lorraine (d. 1330), lord of Warsberg

Notes

References

* Chronique ou histoire abrégée des évêques et des comtes de Nevers écrite en Latin au seizième siècle et publiée pour la première fois Texte imprimé]par René de Lespinasse,..1870; Le Nivernais et les comtes de Nevers... par René de Lespinasse,.Paris : H. Champion, 1909 (-1914) {{DEFAULTSORT:Yolande II, Countess of Nevers 1247 births 1280 deaths 13th-century countesses regnant 13th-century countesses consort Counts of Nevers House of Burgundy House of Dampierre 13th-century French nobility 13th-century French women