Marguerite de Bourbon

Margaret of Bourbon (5 February 1438 – 24 April 1483) was a French noblewoman and the first wife of Philip II, Duke of Savoy, from 1472 until her death in 1483. She was the daughter of Charles I, Duke of Bourbon and Agnes of Burgundy.

Marriage and issue

Portrait of Margaret of Bourbon and Claudine de Brosse, the first and second wives, respectively, of Philip II, Duke of Savoy. 1620–1635 On 6 April 1472, she became the first wife of Philip II, Duke of Savoy (1443–1497). Her children from this marriage were:

Louise (1476–1531), married Charles d'Orléans, Count of Angoulême, and had children including: Francis I of France, whose daughter Margaret of Valois married Emmanuel Philibert, Duke of Savoy. Marguerite of Navarre, Queen consort of King Henry II of Navarre. Girolamo (1478) Philibert II (1480–1504)

Death

The tomb of Margaret in the Royal Monastery of Brou, Bourg-en-Bresse. She died on 24 April 1483 at the Chateau de Pont d'Ain. Her tomb is currently in the Royal Monastery of Brou, which her daughter-in-law, Margaret of Austria, Duchess of Savoy, began in 1506 to house the tombs of Philbert after his early death, as well as Margaret and eventually herself.

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