Marguerite de Lorraine

Margaret of Lorraine, Duchess of Alençon (1463 at the castle of Vaudémont, Lorraine – 2 November 1521 in Argentan, Normandy) was a French noblewoman and a nun of the order of Poor Clares (Ordre des Clarisses). She was beatified in 1921.[1]
Life
Margaret was born in 1463 in Vaudémont Castle, Lorraine as the youngest daughter of Frederick II, Count of Vaudémont and Yolande d'Anjou. She lost her father when she was the age of seven, and was brought up at Aix-en-Provence by her grandfather René of Anjou. When latter died in 1480, she was sent back to Lorraine to her brother, René II. He arranged her marriage to René, Duke of Alençon, whom she wed in Toul on 14 May 1488.[2]
Alençon and Margaret had three children:

• Charles IV of Alençon (1489–1525), married Marguerite of Angoulême as her first husband.
• Françoise of Alençon, Duchess of Beaumont (1490- 14 September 1550), married firstly in 1505, François, Duke of Longueville; married secondly in 1513, Charles de Bourbon, Duke of Vendôme, by whom she had thirteen children.
• Anne, Lady of La Guerche (30 October 1492- 18 October 1562), married in 1508, William IX Palaeologos, Marquis of Montferrat by whom she had three children.

Margaret died on November 2, 1521, in Argentan, Orne from natural causes.
Almost 400 years after her death, she was beatified on March 10, 1921, by Pope Benedict XV.
Widowhood
Left a widow in 1492, she busied herself in the administration of her duchy and the education of her children. When she was relieved of the duties imposed upon her by her position, she decided to renounce the world and retired to Mortagne, to a monastery of religious women who followed the rule of Saint Elizabeth. Later, having brought with her to Argentan some of these nuns, she founded there another monastery which she placed, with the authorization of the pope, under the rule of Saint Clare, modified by the Minor Observants.[3]
She herself took the religious habit in this house and made her vows on 11 October 1520. On 2 November 1521, after having lived an austere life for a year, she died in her modest cell, at the age of fifty-eight. Her body, preserved in the monastery of the Poor Clares, and when that monastery was suppressed, was transferred to the church of Saint Germain d'Argentan. In 1793, during the French Revolution, it was profaned and thrown into the common burial place.[3]
Legacy
The memory of Margaret of Lorraine is preserved in the Martyrologium franciscanum and in the Martyrologium gallicanum. After an invitation made by the bishop of Séez, Jacques Camus de Pontcarré, Louis XIII asked Pope Urban VIII to order a canonical inquiry into the virtues and the miracles of the Duchess.
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From: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret_of_Lorraine
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Margareta of Lorraine1,2
Last Edited 29 Nov 2005
F, #50087, b. 1463, d. 2 November 1521
Father Frederick VI, Count Vaudemont, Baron Joinville, Seigneur de Lambesc, Suse, Verbenne, Rumigny, & Boves1 b. 1417, d. 31 Aug 1470
Mother Jolanta de Anjou1,3 b. 2 Nov 1428, d. 23 Feb 1484
Margareta of Lorraine was born in 1463.1 She married Rene, 3rd Duke d'Alencon, Comte de Perche, Vicomte de Beaumont, son of Jean II, Duke d'Alencon and Marie d' Armagnac, on 14 May 1488 at Toul, France.1,4 Margareta of Lorraine died on 2 November 1521; Died a nun at Argentan.1,2
Family
Rene, 3rd Duke d'Alencon, Comte de Perche, Vicomte de Beaumont b. c 1454, d. 1 Nov 1492
Children

• Francoise d' Alencon+2 b. c 1491, d. 14 Sep 1550
• Anne d' Alencon+ b. 30 Oct 1492, d. 18 Oct 1562

Citations
1.[S2] Detlev Schwennicke, Europaische Stammtafeln, New Series, Vol. I/2, Tafel 206.
2.[S11569] Europaische Stammtafeln, by Wilhelm Karl, Prinz zu Isenburg, Vol. VI, Tafel 131; Vol. III, Tafel 71.
3.[S11569] Europaische Stammtafeln, by Wilhelm Karl, Prinz zu Isenburg, Vol. VI, Tafel 130 & 131.
4.[S11569] Europaische Stammtafeln, by Wilhelm Karl, Prinz zu Isenburg, Vol. III, Tafel 71; Vol. VI, Tafel 131.
From: https://our-royal-titled-noble-and-commoner-ancestors.com/p1667.htm...
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Marguerite de Lorraine
F, #3213, b. 1463, d. 1 November 1521
Last Edited=10 May 2003
Consanguinity Index=2.42%
Marguerite de Lorraine was born in 1463. She was the daughter of Frederic VI de Vaudémont, Comte de Vaudémont and Yolande d'Anjou. She married René d'Alençon, Duc d'Alençon, son of Jean II d'Alençon, Duc d'Alençon, in 1488. She died on 1 November 1521.
Child of Marguerite de Lorraine and René d'Alençon, Duc d'Alençon
1. Françoise d'Alençon+ b. bt 1490 - 1491, d. 14 Sep 1550
From: https://www.thepeerage.com/p322.htm#i3213
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René of Alençon (1454 – 1 November 1492) was a French nobleman. He succeeded his father John II of Alençon as Duke of Alençon.
Life
René was born in 1454 to the House of Valois-Alençon. He was the son of John II of Alençon and Marie of Armagnac.[1]
In 1478, he was restored as Duke of Alençon and Count of Perche, titles which had been confiscated from his family after his father's conviction in 1474.
Family
His first wife was Marguerite, daughter of William of Harcourt, Count of Tancarville.
He married a second time on 14 May 1488 at Toul, to Margaret of Lorraine (1463 – 1 November 1521),[2] daughter of Frederick, Count of Vaudémont and Yolande of Anjou. Margaret bore him three children:
1. Charles IV of Alençon (1489–1525)[1]
2. Françoise of Alençon (c. 1490 – 14 September 1550, La Fleche), Duchess of Beaumont, married 1505 in Blois, François, Duke of Longueville (d. 1512),[1] married 1513 Charles, Duke of Vendôme
3. Anne (30 October 1492 – 18 October 1562, Casale Monferrato), Lady of la Guerche, married 31 August 1508 in Blois William IX Paleologos, Marquess of Montferrat[1]
He also had several illegitimate children:
1. Charles (d. 1545), Lord of Cany[1]
2. Marguerite, married 1485 Jacques de Boisguyon,[1] married Henri de Bournel
3. Jacqueline, married Gilles des Ormes[1]
From: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ren%C3%A9,_Duke_of_Alen%C3%A7on
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