Brief lives of women who reigned or ruled in their own right or by marriage by providing their a) proprietary titles, b) parents and paternity, c) patrimony and properties, d) persona or personality, e) powers exercised, f) patronages and g) partner/progeny.
MARGUERITE D'ALENCON (1503-?)
Proprietary Title: Countess of Alencon
MARGUERITE D'AMBOISE (d.1475)
Proprietary Titles: Princess of Talmond, Viscountess of Thouars, Lady of Mauleon, Lady of Montrichard
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MARGUERITE D'ANGOULEME (1492-1549)
Proprietary Titles: Duchess of Berry, 1517
Other Titles: Duchess of Alençon, Countess of Armagnac & Countess of Perche, 1525-1549, as wife of
Charles IV of Alençon [Duke of Alençon and Count of Perche, 1492-1525; Count of Armagnac, Fézensac, & Rodez, 1497-1525 (from his great-uncle Charles); Count of Fezenzaguet, l'Isle-Jourdain, and Pardiac]; Queen of Navarre, 1527-1549, as 2nd wife of Henri II of Navarre
The Duchy of Berry: "Further, Marguerite's dowry excluded her duchy of Berry, the territory which would have both tied onto Henry's contiguous counties of Perigord and Limousin, and linked them to the great royal lands of the Loire valley, providing an almost unbroken line of communication through Albret lands from their courts at Pau and Nerac to the royal court at Blois. In 1521, Francis had declared that when the French duchies were united within the domain of the crown, he had not intended that the possessions which head given personally to his mother (the duchies of Angouleme and Anjou), his aunt (the duchy of Nemours), and his sister Marguerite (Berry) should be included. The duchy of Berry therefore remained among Marguerite's biens paraphernaux, and as such not only did not pass to Henry II d'Albret, but was reserved, as an appanage of the crown, at her brother the king of France's disposition. Consequently, the duchy of Berry also did not pass by inheritance from Marguerite to either her daughter Jeanne d'Albret or her grandson Henry III." (Queen Jeanne and the Promised Land: 57)
Patrimony/Properties: "Marguerite was also duchess of Alencon, duchess of Berry, and countess of Rodez, Perche, l"Isle and Lomanque. Her dowry brought to the marriage her lands of Armagnac, and the 'usufruct' incomes of Alencon and Berry. Henry II d'Albret was now king of Navarre, sovereign viscount of Bearn, duke of Armagnac, lord of Albret, viscount of Bigorre, Gabardan, Marsan and Nebouzan, and count of Fezenzaguet, Foix, Limousin, and Perigord. He was also count of Rodez, with its four castellanies of Rouergue (although these were inherited directly by Jeanne and her son Henry III after Marguerite's death). . . ." (Queen Jeanne and the Promised Land: 56)
" . . . During her first marriage to the Duc d'Alencon, her brother, King Francis I, gave Marguerite the Duchy of Berry, where she made the royal court a center of learning and humanism and helped to foster the growth of the University of Bourges. After her husband's death she married Henry d'Albret, King of Navarre. In Navarre, she once again attracted humanist scholars and artists to her court. As a Protestant married to a Catholic in a time of fierce religious warfare, her role was that of a peacemaker between Catholics and Protestants, and she protected the Protestant reformers at her court, often harboring them against her husband's will." (The Creation of Feminist Consciousness: 228)
"We remember Marguerite by her last, most exalted title: queen of Navarre (f. 1527-1549). Her second husband, Henri d'Albret (1503-1555), enjoyed his royal powers in Basse-Navarre, the amputated northern stub of a small kingdom straddling the Pyrenees. This realm barely sufficed to substantiate her royal title, nor did Marguerite spend much time there. It was other qualities that made her truly regal. Her authority over numerous French domains, her natural abilities, and her special relationship with the king enabled her to exercise a degree of influence at court that was rivaled only by a few other women close to Francis I (b. 1492, r. 1515-1547), including his mother, Louise of Savoy (1476-1531), and his mistress, Anne de Pisseleu, duchess d'Etampes (1508-1580), as well as a small circle of leading courtiers such as Antoine Duprat (1464-1535), Anne de Montmorency (1493-1567), and Philippe Chabot de Brion (1480-1453). Using her position to support the spread of the gospel, Marguerite was the recognized political leader of the French evangelicals. Referring to far more than a geographically limited territory, Marguerite's title 'Navarre,' therefore, serves to mark symbolically the people she shepherded in France whom contemporaries maligned, scholars have failed to perceive, and we will investigate: the Navarrian Network." (King's Sister – Queen of Dissent: 38)
MARGUERITE D'ANJOU (1273-1299)
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Proprietary Titles: Countess of Anjou and Maine, 1290-99
MARGUERITE DE ARENBERG (1527-1599)
[Fam1]
Proprietary Title: Princess and Countess of Arenberg, 1576-1599.
MARGUERITE D'ARMAGNAC (d.1504)
Proprietary Titles: Duchess of Nemours and Countess of Guise & Pardiac, 1503-1504.
MARGUERITE DE BAUGE (d.c1252)
Proprietary Title: Lady of Miribel.
MARGUERITE DE BEARN (1245-1319)
a.k.a. Margarita de Moncada
[Gen1]
Proprietary Title: Viscountess of Bearn, 1290-1301.
Parents/Pedigree: Daughter of Gaston VII, Viscount of Bearn, and of Mathe de Matha, Viscountess of Marsan.
Notes: " . . . Then toward the end of the thirteenth century, Roger-Bernard III of Foix married the heiress of Bearn. Marguerite was only one of the several daughters of Gaston VII, last of the Moncade viscounts. To Guilhelmina, an unmarried sister, he bequeathed some of the Catalan fiefs, and to Matha, married to the Count of Armagnac, the lesser viscounty of Gavardan. But the bulk of his domains in Bearn and Gascony were to be henceforth indissolubly joined in the dual lordship of Foix-Bearn. . . ." (Vernier: 5)
Partner/Progeny: 'Roger Bernard III (poet and warrior was taken prisoner by Philip III of France and Peter III of Aragon. He married Marguerite, daughter and heiress of Gaston VII, Viscount of Bearn (who died in 1290), and then inherited Bearn-Nebouzan from his father-in-law in 1290. . . ." (Judah: 48)
Power Exercised: " . . . Marguerite de Bearn outlived both her husband and their son, and for a time ruled as regent during the minority of her grandson Gaston II. . . ." (Vernier: 5)
MARGUERITE DE BEAUMEZ (d.1323)
Lady of Châteaumeillant and du Broc.
MARGUERITE DE BEAUMONT (d.1307)
a.k.a. Marguerite de Beaumont-en-Gatinais
Parents/Pedigree: Daughter of Pierre de Beaumont, Count of Montescaglioso and of Alba, and of Filipppa de Ceccano.
Partner/Progeny: Married (1) Jean de Montfort (d.1300), Count of Squillace, Lord of la Ferte-Alais and of Castres-en-Albigeis, 1270-1300.; (2) Robert II de Dreux, Lord of Beu. "Phillipe's elder son Jean then inherited his father's lands and became the only sizeable French landholder (apart from the king) in the whole island of Sicily. By 1273 Jean was chamberlain of the Regno, at that point a predominantly military office. He was put in charge of various campaigns in Tuscany. By way of reward for faithful service, Charles gave him as his bride Marguerite de Beaumont, heiress of Pierre de Beaumont . . . and conferred on him Pierre's county of Montescaglioso. . . ." (Dunbabin: 145)
MARGUERITE DE BEAUMONT (d.1307)
Proprietary Title: Countess of Charmerlan.
MARGUERITE DE BERRI
Proprietary Title: Lady of Berrie [112]
MARGUERITE DE BIGORRE
Proprietary Title: Countess of Bigorre, 1290-1301
MARGUERITE DE BLOIS (1170-1230)
Proprietary Titles: Lady of Romorantin & Millancay & Countess of Dunois & Blois, 1218-1230 [113]
MARGUERITE DE BLOIS (d.1419)
Proprietary Title: Countess of Sancerre, Lady of Charenton
MARGUERITE DE BLOIS (c1170's-1230)
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Proprietary Title: Countess of Blois "A series of deaths among Countess Alix of Blois's children left only daughters in the direct line. . . These granddaughters of Eleanor of Aquitaine divided the family holdings, with Marguerite, probably born in the late 1170s, inheriting Blois. Her first marriage placed her at the center of the circle of late twelfth-century northern French 'courtly love.' According to Reto Bezzola, Marguerite in her first marriage (ca. 1189) became the third wife of the first trouvere, Huon d'Oisi; this explains her appearance in his poems. Her second marriage, probably in 1192, was to Count Otto of Burgundy, a son of Emperor Frederick I; her third, probably ca. 1200, was to Gautier II, lord of Avesnes in Hainaut, who in 1218 became count of Blois in her right. Although Marguerite's date of death is sometimes given as 1230, she evidently survived Gautier and appears alone in a charter of 1230, granting rights to hold a market or fair to the abbey of the Madeleine in Chateaudun, and another of 1235. She probably retired soon thereafter to Fontevraud and was probably dead in 1241, the year of the death of her only child, Marie of Avesnes, whose children with John of Chatillon continued the line of the counts of Blois." (Wheeler: 195)
MARGUERITE DE BOURBON (1211-1256)
Power Exercised: Regent of Champagne and Navarre, 1253-1256, for her son Thibaut V of Champagne/Teobaldo II of Navarre.
MARGUERITE DE BOURGOGNE (1250-1308)
Proprietary Title: Countess of Tonnerre, 1262-1308
MARGUERITE DE BOURGOGNE (1229-1277)
[Fam1]
Proprietary Title: Lady of Molinot
MARGUERITE DE BRETAGNE (1392-1428)
Proprietary Title: Lady of Guillac.
MARGUERITE DE CHALON (d.1463)
[Ref1]
Proprietary Title: Countess of Tonnerre, 1440-1462.
MARGUERITE DE CRAON
Proprietary Titles: Lady of Marsillac and of Montbazon
Progeny/Posterity: "Guy VIII lord of la Rocheofoucault, was one of the first lords of Guinne who did homage to the crown of France after the peace of Bretigny. . . He married Margaret de Croan, lady of Marsillac and Montbazon, by whom he had two sons, Foulcault III lord of la Rocehfoucault. . . and Aymar lord of Montbazon and Sainte Maure." (de Monstrelet: 164)
MARGUERITE DE CLERMONT (1104/05-c1145)
[Gen1]
Proprietary Title: Countess of Amiens, 1118-1127 (inherited from her mother, Adelaide of Vermandois)
MARGUERITE DE CLISSON (c1366-1441)
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[Gen1]
Proprietary Titles: Lady of Champtoceau, of Monfaucon and of Palluau.
Parents/Pedigree: Daughter of Olivier IV of Clisson (1336-1407), Lord of Clisson and Catherine Beatrix of Laval
Power Exercised: Countess of Penthievre and Viscountess of Limoges
Progeny/Posterity: Married in 1387 Jean I of Chatillon (c1340-1404), Count of Penthievre, Viscount of Limoges, with whom she had 4 sons and a daughter.
" . . . Olivier's younger daughter, the countess of Penthievre, inherited her father's propensity for feuding and litigation and brought ruin on her family by inducing her sons to kidnap Jean V (of Brittany) in 1420."(Kibler: 234)
MARGUERITE DE COMMINGES (1363-1443)
Proprietary Title: Countess of Comminges, 1375-1375
MARGUERITE DE CROY (1508-1549)
[Fam1]
Proprietary Title: Lady of Wavrin
MARGUERITE DE DAMPIERRE (d.1316)
Proprietary Titles: Lady of Dampierre and of Saint-Dizier.
MARGUERITE DE DONZY
Notes: "...It is likely that Gervase II de Chateauneuf married Margaret, daughter of the Burgundian castellan Hervey de Donzy because her mother Matilda was heiress of the great Gouet family from the western Chartrain: Margaret's dowry lay at Brou, one of the Gouet castles, and the marriage also explains why Margaret's brother Renaud de Montmirail appears alongside Gervase and Hervey de Chateauneuf during the Fourth Crusade." (Power, p. 237)
MARGUERITE D'ENGHIEN (1365-after 1394)
[Bio1]
Proprietary Title: Countess of Brienne and Conversano, Lady of Enghien, 1394-1397.
Parents/Pedigree: Daughter and heiress of Louis d'Enghien, Comte de Brienne and of Conversano, Sire d'Enghien, and of Giovanna di Sanseverino.
Partners/Progeny: Married (1) Pierre de Baux, no issue; (2) Giacopo di Sanseverino, no issue; (3) in 1380, Jean de Luxembourg (1370-1397), Sire de Beauvois, with whom she had 3 sons and 2 daughters.
MARGUERITE DE FOIX (d.1593)
Proprietary Titles: Countess of Candale, of Benauges & of Astarac and Captale of Buch.
Parents/Pedigree: Only child and heiress of Henri of Foix (f.1572) and Marie of Montmorency.
Partner/Progeny: Married in 1587 Jean Louis de Nogaret de la Valette (1554-1642), 1st Duke of Epernon with whom she had no issue.
MARGUERITE I DE FRANCE (1310-1382)
Proprietary Titles: Countess Palatine of Burgundy and Artois and Lady of Salins, 1361-1382.
MARGUERITE DE JOIGNY
Proprietary Titles: Countess of Joigny, Lady of Pouilly and Premartin.
MARGUERITE DE JOINVILLE (1354-1418)
Proprietary Titles: Lady of Joinville & Countess of Vaudemont, 1365-1415.
MARGUERITE DE LA ROCHE
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Proprietary Title: Lady of Chateuneuf-en-Thymerais, 1329.
Parents/Pedigree: Daughter of Etienne de La Roche (d.1327), Lord of La Rochelle, Viscount of Dreux, Lord of Chateauneuf and Senonches, 1300-1327, Beaussart and La Ferriere.
Progeny/Posterity: Married in 1316 Jean I of Dreux (1290-1347), Viscount of Dreux, Vidame and Baron of Enneval and Senonches.
MARGUERITE DE LA TREMOILLE (1425-1457)
Proprietary Title: Lady of Saint-Fargeau.
Parents/Pedigree: She was the daughter of George de la Tremoille, Comte de Guines
Partner/Progeny: She married Juan de Salazar with whom she had Lancelot, Jeanne, Hector, Galeas, Tristan, Jeanne and Isabelle, all surnamed Salazar y la Tremoille. "John de Salazar, a native of Spain, knight, chamberlain and councillor of the king, captain of a hundred lances of his own raising, and Lord of Montagne, Saint-Just, Marcilly, Laz, Lonsac, and Issodun, married Margaret de la Tremoille, Lady of Saint-Fargeau, on the 31st of October, 1441; became a widower, by her death, on the 18th of December, 1457, and died at Troyes on the 12th of November, 1479." (de Commynes: 42)
MARGUERITE DE LIGNE (1552-1611)
[Fam1]
Proprietary Titles: Countess of Ligne, 1576-1611.
MARGUERITE DE LORRAINE (1463-1521)
Proprietary Titles: Lady of Mayenne, 1499-1509.
MARGUERITE DE LUSIGNAN
Proprietary Titles: Lady of Tyre, 1284-1286.
MARGUERITE DE MACON (d.1257/59)
Proprietary Titles: Lady of Salins, 1219-1225.
MARGUERITE DE MAUNY
Partner/Progeny: " . . . The Norman lordship of Torigni had been acquired by Jean de Matignon, the eldest son of Bertrand III, through his marriage to Marguerite de Mauny, daughter of Olivier de Mauny, Baron de Torigni. She eventually inherited the barony when her brother died without issue. Jean de Matignon died in 1450, which made his son, Bertrand IV, lord of Matignon, but not necessarily Baron de Torigni if the title was retained by his mother during her lifetime. . . ." (Busby: 206).
"Jean I (c1390-1450). Jean was the eldest son of Bertrand III. He married, on 18 April 1424, Marguerite de Mauny, daughter of Olivier de Mauny, Baron de Thorigny (Torigni-sur-Vire in Normandy). Marguerite became heiress to the barony when her brother Olivier died without issue. From this time onwards the family of Goyon established itself at Torigni and played an active role in Normandy rather than Brittany. Jean died in February 1450." (Busby: 150)
MARGUERITE DE MELUN (d.1448)
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Proprietary Titles: Countess of Tancarville, Baroness of Varenguebec, Lady of Parthenay, 1415-1448.
Parents/Pedigree: Daughter of Gauillame, Count of Tancarville and Viscount of Melun, and of Jeanne l'Archeveque, Lady of Samblancay and of Parthenay.
Partner/Progeny: Married in 1417, Jacques II de Harcourt, Lord of Montgomery.
MARGUERITE DE MONTMORENCY (1175-?)
Proprietary Titles: Lady of Verneuil, Poissy, Vernouillet and Meulan.
MARGUERITE DE NAVARRE.
MARGUERITE DE NESLE (1306-1350)
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Proprietary Titles: Lady of Argies, and of Chimay; Countess of Soissons, 1306-1350; Lady of Catheu, 1334-1350.
Parents/Pedigree: Daughter of Hugues de Nesle (d.1306), Count of Soissons and Lord of Chimay, and of Jeanne de Dargies (d.1348), Lady of Dargies and of Catheux.
Partner/Progeny: Married in 1317 Jean d'Avesnes (1288-1356), Lord of Beaumont, Valenciennes and Conde.
MARGUERITE DE NEUILLY
Proprietary Titles: Lady of Passava; Heiress of Akova
Partner/Progeny: Guglielmo II da Verona
Note: "Akova [Matagrifon], located in the interior, controlled the Greeks of Arkadia and guarded the passes to the valley of Alphea. After the death of Gauthier [II] Baron of Akova (Matagrifon), the barony devolved to his niece Marguerite de Neuilly Lady of Passava but she was unable to claim her inheritance within 2 years and 2 days because she was held as a hostage in Constantinople. Guillaume Prince of Achaia therefore declared her inheritance forfeit. Marguerite´s third husband, Jean de Saint-Omer, demanded the return of her inheritance, which was refused by a specially summoned parliament at Glarentza. Prince Guillaume granted one third of the barony to Marguerite as a concession, granting the other two-thirds to his own daughter Marguerite." (FMG)
MARGUERITE D'ORLEANS (1406-1466)
Proprietary Titles: Countess of Vertus.
MARGUERITE DE PICQUIGNY (d.1378)
[Ref1]
Proprietary Titles: Lady of Falvy.
Parents/Pedigree: Daughter of Renault de Picquigny (d.1315), Vidame d'Amiens.
Partners/Progeny: Married (1) in 1323, Jean de Roucy; (2) in 1328 Gaucher de Noyers (d.1339); and (3) Raoul de Raineval, Lord of Raineval and of Pierrepont.
Notes: Heiress to the Picquigny family which held the title of vidame of Amiens. She married Robert d'Ailly in 1342 and their line ended with Charlotte Eugenie who married Honore d'Albret.
MARGUERITE DE ROHAN (1617-1684)
[Ref1]
Proprietary Titles: Duchess of Rohan and Peer of France, Duchess of Frontenay and Lady of Soubise, 1642 (succeeded her uncle Benjamin de Soubise), Princess of Leon and Countess of Porhoet, Marquise of Blain, Lady of Lorges and other fiefs.
MARGUERITE DE SABLE (c1179-1238)
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Proprietary Title: Lady of Sable, of la Suse, of Briole (Briollay), Mayet, Loupeland, Genneteil, Precigne and the Norman manor of Agon, 1193
Parents/Pedigree: 1st daughter of Robert IV de Sable, and of Clemence de Mayenne (d.c1209)
Partner/Progeny: She married, in 1201, as his 2nd wife, William de Roches (d.1222) Seneschal of Anjou, of Touraine and of Maine, with whom she had: (1) Jeanne des Roches, Lady of Sable, of Briole, of Chateauneuf-sur-Sarte, of Precigne and of Brion; and (2) Clemence des Roches, Lady of Chateau-du-Loir, of Maiet, of la Suse, of la Loupelande, etc.
Properties/Patrimony: "Guillaume de Roches belonged to a group of royal agents who had assumed an increasingly prominent role in Angevin administration in the late twelfth century. Of modest origins, he strikingly improved his position by loyal service to a prince and by marriage to a baronial heiress. Stemming from a family of lesser knights from Chateau-du-Loir...Guillaume entered Henry II's service...and loyally defended the king during his last days at Le Mans.... [H]is faithful service to the Angevin monarchy, which continued under Richard, undoubtedly elicited royal permission to marry a rich heiress---in Gauillaume's case, the daughter of Robert of Sable, a leading Angevin baron. When Robert and his son died in the 1190s, Guillaume de Roches succeeded to the lordship of Sable. His wife not only brought him extensive lands, but also ties to the baronial families of Mayenne, Craon and Laval... After Arthur conferred the hereditary seneschalship on Guillaume, the new seneschal became the decisive figure in the military and political history of Anjou. . . ." (Baldwin: 234)
MARGUERITE DE SAINT-VERAIN
[Gen1]
Proprietary Title: Lady of Bleneau
MARGUERITE DE SALINS (d.1257)
[Gen1]
Proprietary Title: Lady of Salins, who sold the Lordship of Salins to Hugues IV, Duke of Burgundy, in 1225
MARGUERITE DE SOISSONS (d.1350)
[Bio1]
Proprietary Title: Countess of Soissons, 1306, Lady of Chimay and Countess of Soissons, 1307-1315. [Check this]
MARIE DE BOURBON (1315-1387)
[Bio1]
Parents/Pedigree: Louis I, Duke of Bourbon, and of Marie d'Avesnes.
Partner/Progeny: (1) in 1328, Guy de Lusignan (1343), titular Prince of Galilee, with whom she had a son Hugh de Lusignan (1335-1385); (2) in 1347, Robert of Taranto (d.1364), with whom she had no children.
Note: "Du Cange long ago remarked on the special affection and solicitude which Robert of Taranto demonstrated for Marie of Bourbon. The prince had given repeated proof of his sentiments by granting his consort large estates and by treating her son, Hugh of Galilee, as if he were his own. He had warmly espoused Hugh's claims to the throne of Cyprus. At the time of their marriage (September 1347) Robert had assigned to Marie for her dower an annual revenue of 2,000 gold ounces from his possessions in Italy and in Corfu and Cephalonia. In 1355 he granted her for her household an annual income of 1,050 ounces from his Italian lands. In 1357 he bestowed in her the rich castellany of Kalamata, with two dependent castles and the rights of high justice. About this time Marie purchased the two important baronies of Vostitsa and Nivelet. . . ." (Setton: 137)
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