About Marie of Orléans, Viscountess of Narbonne
Lived 1457 – 1493 (aged 35–36). Marie of Orléans, Viscountess of Narbonne was an aristocrat.
Marie of Orléans (19 December/September 1457 – 1493) was the elder sister of King Louis XII of France. Due to her marriage to John of Foix, she was Countess of Étampes and Viscountess of Narbonne.
Marie was the eldest daughter of Charles I, Duke of Orléans, and his third wife Marie of Cleves. After a previous betrothal to Peter II, Duke of Bourbon, she married John of Foix on 8 September 1483.
Issue She had two children by John of Foix:
Germaine of Foix (1488–1538) married Ferdinand II of Aragon, and whose relationship to the Navarrese throne was used as an excuse by Ferdinand to claim the throne of Navarre (see Spanish conquest of Iberian Navarre) Gaston of Foix (1489–1512) 5= 5. Valentina Visconti 13= 13. Margaret of Jülich 15= 15. Margaret of Bavaria
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Marie of Orléans, Viscountess of Narbonne was born on 19 December 1457 in Château de Blois.
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Marie of Orléans, Viscountess of Narbonne died in 1493 in Mazères.
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Marie of Orléans, Viscountess of Narbonne was an aristocrat.
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