Jacqueline de Longwy, Comtesse de Bar Sur Seine

Jacqueline de Longwy

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Jacqueline de Longwy, Countess of Bar-sur-Seine (before 1520- 28 August 1561), Duchess of Montpensier, Dauphine of Auvergne was a French noblewoman, and a half-niece of King Francis I of France. She was the first wife of Louis III de Bourbon, Duke of Montpensier, and the mother of his six children. Charlotte of Bourbon, the third wife of William The Silent, Prince of Orange, was her daughter.

Family

Jacqueline was born on an unknown date sometime before 1520, the youngest daughter of Jean IV de Longwy, Seigneur de Givry, Baron of Pagny and of Mirebeau (died 1520) and Jeanne of Angouleme, Countess of Bar-sur-Seine (c.1490- after 1531/1538), the illegitimate half-sister of King Francis I of France.[1]

Jacqueline had two older sisters. The eldest, Francoise de Longwy, Dame de Pagny and de Mirebeau (c.1510- after 14 April 1561), married firstly in 1526, Philippe de Chabot, Seigneur De Brion, Count of Charny and Buzançois, Admiral of France, by whom she had six children, and secondly in 1545, Jacques de Perusse, Seigneur d'Escars, by whom she had a son, Cardinal Anne d'Escars de Givry. Her second eldest sister was Claude Louise de Longwy, Abbess of Jouarre.

Jacqueline's paternal uncle was Claude de Longwy de Givry, Bishop of Amiens. Her paternal grandparents were Philippe de Longwy, Seigneur of Pagny and Jeanne de Bauffremont, Dame de Mirebeau. Her maternal grandparents were Charles, Count of Angouleme and his mistress Antoinette de Polignac, Dame de Combronde, who was a lady-in-waiting to the Count of Angouleme's wife, Louise of Savoy.[2]Antoinette (born c.1460) was the daughter of Foucaud de Polignac, Seigneur des Fontaines and Agnès de Chabanais.

Marriage and children

In 1538, Jacqueline married, as his first wife, Louis III de Bourbon-Montpensier, who would become Duke of Montpensier on the death of his mother Louise de Bourbon, Duchess of Montpensier on 5 July 1561. On the occasion of the marriage, Jacqueline's uncle, King Francis restored the Montpensier estates and the counties of Forez, Beaujeu, and Dombes to Louis' mother. They had been confiscated by the French Crown following Charles III, Duke of Bourbon's treason in 1523 when he defected to the side of Emperor Charles V.

The marriage of Jacqueline and Louis produced one son and five daughters:

Francois, Duke of Montpensier (1542- 4 June 1592), married in 1566, Renee of Anjou, Marquise de Mézières (21 October 1550- 1597), daughter of Nicholas of Anjou, Marquis de Mézières and Gabrielle de Mareuil, by whom he had one son, Henri de Bourbon, Duke of Montpensier.

Francoise de Bourbon-Vendome (1539- 1587), in 1559 married Henri-Robert of La Marck (de la Marck), Duke of Bouillon, Prince of Sedan

Anne de Bourbon (1540 1577), in 1561 married Francois II de Cleves, Duke of Nevers

Jeanne de Bourbon, Abbess of Jouarre (1541- 1620)

Charlotte de Bourbon (1547- 5 May 1582), on 24 June 1575, married William The Silent of Nassau, Prince of Orange, by whom she had six daughters

Louise de Bourbon, Abbess of Faremoutier (1548- 1586)

Jacqueline succeeded to the title of suo jure Countess of Bar-sur-Seine upon her mother's death, which occurred on an unknown date sometime after 1531/1538. Her father's titles had passed to her eldest sister, Francoise upon his death in 1520.

In 1543, the dauphinate of Auvergne was restored to Louis, Jacqueline therefore became the Dauphine of Auvergne.

She died in Paris on 28 August 1561. She had been the Duchess of Montpensier for less than two months.

Her husband married secondly, in 1570, Catherine of Lorraine, daughter of Francis, Duke of Guise and Anna d'Este. Their marriage was childless.

Through her daughter, Charlotte, Jacqueline was an ancestress of the House of Hanover, which reigned in Great Britain from 1714 to 1901, and from which descends the current British Royal Family.

[edit]In art

Jacqueline de Longwy's portrait was drawn in 1550 by French painter Francois Clouet.

[edit]Notes

^ Charles Cawley, Medieval Lands, France, Capetian Kings

^ Cawley, Medieval Lands, France, Capetian Kings

[edit]References

www.Genealogy.euweb.cz/Capet

Charles Cawley, Medieval Lands, France, Capetian Kings