Marie de Berry, duchesse d'Auvergne

Marie de Berry (c. 1375 – June 1434) was suo jure Duchess of Auvergne and Countess of Montpensier in 1416–1434. She was the daughter of John, Duke of Berry, and Joanna of Armagnac. She was married three times. She acted as administrator of the Duchy of Bourbon for her third spouse John I, Duke of Bourbon, during his imprisonment in England after he was captured following the French defeat at the Battle of Agincourt in 1415, until 1434.
Life
Marie was born about the year 1375,[1][2] the youngest daughter of John "the Magnificent", Duke of Berry and Joanna of Armagnac. Through her father, a great collector of antiquities, art patron and bibliophile, she was a granddaughter of King John II of France. She had three brothers, Charles, Louis, and John; and one older sister, Bonne.
Countess consort of Châtillon
The first of Marie's three marriages[3] took place on 29 May 1386 in the Cathedral of Saint-Etienne at Bourges: aged about 11, Marie married Louis III de Châtillon as her first husband. Marie's father gave her a dowry of 70,000 francs; he gave Louis, his son-in-law, the county of Dunois.[4] The marriage and trousseau had been arranged by the two fathers in 1384: "A Duke will dress her, in bed and out of it, and a Count will put the jewels on her",[citation needed] John Duke of Berry and Guy Count de Blois-Châtillon agreed. The festivities at the wedding de ces jeunes enfants ("of these young children") are described in Jean Froissart's Chronicles.[5]
Countess of Eu
There were no children from this marriage, and Louis died on 15 July 1391. On 27 January 1393 a marriage contract was drawn up for Marie and Philip of Artois, Count of Eu. They were married the next month at the Palais du Louvre in Paris; King Charles VI of France himself paid for the festivities, while her father gave her a dowry of 70,000 francs. They had two sons and two daughters. The King appointed Philip Constable in 1392. Philippe went on Crusade and fought alongside his friend Jean Le Maingre ("Boucicaut"), marshal of France at the disastrous Battle of Nicopolis on 25 September 1396. Both were captured, and Philip died some months later in captivity at Micalizo, now called Mihaliççik, in western Turkey.[6]
After Philippe's death inter Sarracenos ("among the Saracens"), his body was brought back to Eu, his home town, and Marie gave an endowment of £100 annually to the Collegial Church of Notre-Dame-et-Saint-Laurent for a mass to be celebrated there on 17 June each year in his memory.[7] Their eldest son, Philippe, died on 23 December in the same year and is also buried in Eu.[citation needed] Jointly with her widowed sister-in-law, Jeanne of Thouars, Marie was appointed guardian of the three surviving children of her marriage with Philippe: Charles, Bonne and Catherine. Aged about three, Charles succeeded his father as Count of Eu. His revenues were held for him until he came of age by three trustees: Marie herself, her father, and her uncle Philip the Bold, Duke of Burgundy.[1]
Duchess consort of Bourbon
Marie married her third husband John of Bourbon at the "King's Palace" (the Palais de la Cité) in Paris on 21 June 1401. The contract had been signed at Paris on 27 May 1400 after complex negotiations.[8][9] They had three children.[citation needed] He was appointed Grand Chamberlain of France on 18 March 1408 and succeeded his father as Duke of Bourbon on 19 August 1410. Marie's father had persuaded King Charles VI not to fight at the battle of Agincourt on 25 October 1415, but Marie's husband did fight, was captured, and spent the rest of his life in English captivity.
Marie is believed to be depicted in one or possibly two full-page miniatures in the Très Riches Heures du Duc de Berry, a lavishly-illustrated manuscript made for her father in the years after his sons' deaths. In the illustration for the month of April, the young noblemen and women in the foreground are grouped around a couple agreeing to be married. According to Patricia Stirnemann, referencing Saint-Jean Boudin, the scene, although not painted until about 1410, depicts the engagement of Marie with John of Bourbon in 1401.[10] Raymond Cazelles disputes this, arguing that the couple are Marie's niece Bonne of Armagnac and Charles, Duke of Orléans, who were to marry in 1411.[11] A May Day celebration among nobles takes place in the foreground of the illustration for the month of May. Details appear to confirm that the house of Bourbon is represented.[12] Both Cazelles and Stirnemann believe that the woman seen in the foreground, riding on a white horse and wearing a large white headdress, is Marie on the occasion of her marriage on 21 June 1401. These scholars do not agree as to which of the accompanying men is John of Bourbon.[10][11] The buildings in the background have been variously identified, but G. Papertiant suggests that they are the Châtelet, Conciergerie and Tour de l'Horloge in Paris, and at the centre the Palais de la Cité where Marie's wedding took place.[13]
A manuscript made for Marie's own use and presented to her in 1406 survives today as BnF, fr. 926. It is a short collection of Christian devotional works, beginning with Bonaventure's Stimulus amoris, translated into French by Simon de Courcy as the Traitieé de l'esguillon d'amour divine. It includes a miniature of Marie and her daughter Bonne (aged about ten at this time) kneeling in prayer before the Virgin Mary.[14] The manuscript is now in the Bibliothèque nationale de France.[15] Marie also selected approximately 40 manuscripts from among her father's collection on his death, as she was still owed the 70,000 franc dowry from her second marriage.[16]
Duchess of Auvergne and Countess of Montpensier
All three of Marie's brothers were dead before 1400,[citation needed] which explains the complexity of the negotiations for her third marriage: she and her elder sister Bonne were to be heirs to John of Berry's titles, which required royal assent.[8][17] John of Berry died on 15 June 1416 (by which time Marie's husband was already a prisoner in England). Marie was accordingly appointed Duchess of Auvergne and Countess of Montpensier on 26 April 1418; these titles were confirmed in 1425. On 17 January 1421, her husband appointed her administrator of his estates as well.[citation needed] He died a prisoner in London in January 1434.[citation needed] Marie died in Lyon on an unknown date in June of the same year. She was buried at Souvigny Priory.[citation needed]
Family
Louis III de Châtillon[2]
Philip of Artois, Count of Eu (1358–1397)[2]

• Philippe (died 23 December 1397)
• Charles of Artois, Count of Eu (c. 1394–1472)
• Bonne (1396–1425), who married firstly Philip Count of Nevers (1389–1415), youngest son of Philip the Bold, Duke of Burgundy; and secondly Philip the Good, Duke of Burgundy (1396–1467).
• Catherine (1397–1422?), who married John of Bourbon, Lord of Carency.

John I, Duke of Bourbon[18]

• Charles I, Duke of Bourbon (1401–1456)
• Louis (1403–1412, Paris), Count of Forez
• Louis I, Count of Montpensier (1405–1486)

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Marie of Berry
Duchess of Auvergne
Countess of Montpensier
Born c. 1375
Died June 1434
Lyon
Burial Priory of Souvigny
Spouse
Louis III de Châtillon
​(m. 1386; died 1391)​
Philip of Artois, Count of Eu
​(m. 1393; died 1397)​
John I, Duke of Bourbon
(m. 1401; died 1434)​
Issue
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Charles of Artois, Count of Eu
Bonne, Duchess of Burgundy
Charles I, Duke of Bourbon
Louis I, Count of Montpensier
House Valois-Berry
Father John, Duke of Berry
Mother Joanna of Armagnac
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5. JEAN de France (Château du Bois de Vincennes 30 Nov 1340-Paris, Hôtel de Nesle 15 Jun 1416, bur Bourges Sainte-Chapelle). Comte de Poitou. Duc de Berry et d'Auvergne at Boulogne-sur-Mer Oct 1360, confirmed at Paris 3 Mar 1375, and at Vincennes Dec 1380. He was sent to England as a hostage under the Treaty of Brétigny 1360, remaining there for nine years. With his three brothers, he was regent during the minority of his nephew King Charles VI. Governor of Languedoc 19 Nov 1380. Principe di Tarento, by donation of his brother Louis Duc d'Anjou at Avignon 30 May 1380. He exchanged Tarento at Cavaillon 11 Sep 1385 for the counties of Etampes and Gien with his sister-in-law Marie Dss d'Anjou. Appointed Governor of Paris 21 Aug 1405. He was head of the Armagnac party, constituted after his alliance at Gien 18 Apr 1410 with the dukes of Brittany and Orléans, and the counts of Alençon, Clermont and Armagnac, aimed at releasing and restoring King Charles VI to power. The Chronique Rouennaise records the death “à Paris xvi jour de jung” 1416 of “monsr. de Berry”[976]. The testament of “Jean fils de Roy de France, Duc de Berry et d’Auvergne, Comte de Poictou, d’Estampes, de Boulongne et d‘Auvergne”, dated 25 May 1416, bequeathed property to “nos...compagne et filles Jeanne, Bonne [...Comtesse d’Armagnac] et Marie...Duchesse de Bourbon ”[977]. The Geste des Nobles records the death in Paris in May 1416 of “le duc Jehan de Berry et d’Auvergne conte de Poitou” and his burial “en la chapelle de Bourges”[978]. A compulsive collector of art, he lived a life of style and luxury in his palaces at Bourges, Poitiers, Bicêtre and Paris (Hôtel de Nesle). His collection of illuminated manuscripts survives. m firstly (contract Carcassonne, Aude 24 Jun 1360, Rodez, Aveyron 17 Oct 1360) JEANNE d'Armagnac, daughter of JEAN [I] Comte d'Armagnac & his second wife Béatrice de Clermont ([1346]-Mar 1387). The testament of "domini Johannis comitis Armaniaci", dated 18 Feb 1347, names as his heirs, in turn, "filii nostri Johannis primogeniti…Bernardum filium nostrum secundo genitum…Johannam filiam nostrum…"[979]. The testament of "domina Beatrix de Clermont, comitissa Armaniaci, dominaque Charrolesio, uxor…domini Johannes comitis Armaniaci", dated 20 Aug 1361, appoints "filiam nostrum Johannam, Bituriæ et Alverniæ ducessam ac…dominos Johannem de Francia, Bituriæ et Alverniæ necnon et Burgendie et Borboni duces, et comitem Pardiaci…"[980]. A second testament of "Johannes…comes Armaignaci, Fesensiaci et Ruthene, vicecomesque Leomaniæ et Altivillaris ac dominus terre Ripparie", dated 5 Apr 1373, names "…Johanne…filie nostre…uxorique domini ducis de Beriui et Alvernie…"[981]. Père Anselme records her death “à la my-mars 1387 comme il s’apprend du 5. compte de Jean Perdrier maître de la chambre aux deniers de la reine”[982]. m secondly (contract 9 Mar 1389, Riom, Puy-de-Dôme 5 Jun 1390) as her first husband, JEANNE d'Auvergne, daughter of JEAN II Comte d'Auvergne et de Boulogne & his wife Eléonore Ctss de Comminges (1378-before 6 Feb 1423, bur Bourges Sainte-Chapelle). The Chronique de Saint-Denis records the marriage “ver la fin mai...à Bourges”, 1389 from the context, of “monseigneur Jean duc de Berri” and “la fille et l’héritière légitime du comte de Boulogne...nièce du comte de Foix”, adding that the couple was childless which was generally attributed to “la disproportion de leur âge”[983]. The marriage contract between “le duc de Barri et d’Auvergne comte de Poictou” and "Jehan comte de Bologne et d’Auvergne et damoiselle Jehanne de Bologne fille dudit comte" is dated 5 Jun 1389[984]. She succeeded her father in 1394 as JEANNE II Ctss d'Auvergne et de Boulogne. She married secondly (Aigueperse-en-Auvergne, Puy-de-Dôme 16 Nov 1416) as his first wife, Georges Seigneur de La Trémoïlle [Grand Chamberlain of France] ([1385]-6 May 1446, bur Château de Sully). The marriage contract between “messire Georges de la Tremoille chevalier seigneur des baronnies de Sully et de Craon” and "Madame Jehanne de Bologne et d’Auvergne" is dated 16 Nov 1416[985]. Duke Jean & his first wife had five children:
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d) MARIE de Berry (-Lyon Jun 1434, bur Priory of Souvigny). The necrology of the church of Eu records that "Maria de Berry uxor sua" donated "centum libras annui redditus" for masses for "domini Philippi comitis de Augo conestablularii Franciæ" who died "inter Sarracenos"[995]. Père Anselme records the contract for her third marriage dated 27 May 1400[996]. She was appointed Dss d'Auvergne, Ctss de Montpensier 26 Apr 1418, confirmed 1425. Her third husband appointed her administrator of all his estates 17 Jan 1421 during his imprisonment. m firstly (contract Bourges, Cher 29 Mar 1386, Bourges Saint-Etienne 1386) LOUIS [II] de Châtillon Comte de Dunois, son of GUY [II] de Châtillon Comte de Soissons, de Blois et de Dunois & his wife Marie de Namur (-Beaumont en Hainaut 15 Jul 1391). m secondly (contract Paris 27 Jan 1393) PHILIPPE d'Artois Comte d'Eu, son of JEAN d'Artois Comte d'Eu & his wife Marie de Namur (1358-Mihaliççik, Anatolia 16 Jun 1397, bur Eu, Abbaye de Saint-Laurent, or bur Constantinople, Convent of Saint-François de Galata). Appointed Connétable de France 31 Dec 1392 by Charles VI King of France. He fought in Palestine, was captured by the Turks but was freed by Maréchal Boucicaut. He was captured again at the siege of Nicopolis. He was captured by the Turks after the failed siege of Nicopolis in Sep 1396, and died soon after. m thirdly (contract Paris 27 May 1400, in person Paris, Palais du Roi 21 Jun 1401) JEAN de Bourbon Comte de Clermont, son of LOUIS II "le Bon" Duc de Bourbon & his wife Anne Dauphine d'Auvergne Ctss de Forez (Mar 1381-in prison London 5 Jan 1434, bur Priory of Souvigny). Chamberlain of France 18 Mar 1408. He succeeded his father 1410 as Duc de Bourbon. He was captured by the English at the battle of Agincourt 1415, and remained a prisoner for the rest of his life.
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Marie de Berry1
F, #113650, b. 1367, d. 1434
Last Edited=30 Jun 2020
Consanguinity Index=1.11%
Marie de Berry was born in 1367 at France.2 She was the daughter of Jean I, Duc de Berry and Jeanne d'Armagnac.1 She married, firstly, Louis III de Châtillon, Comte de Dunois, son of Guy II de Blois-Châtillon and Marie de Namur, on 29 May 1386.1,3 She married, secondly, Philippe d'Artois, Comte d'Eu, son of Jean d'Artois, Comte d'Eu and Isabelle de Melun, in 1392.1 She married, thirdly, Jean I de Bourbon, Duc de Bourbon, son of Louis II de Bourbon, Duc de Bourbon and Anne de Clermont, Comtesse de Forez, in 1400.1 She died in 1434 at Lyon, France.1
Children of Marie de Berry and Philippe d'Artois, Comte d'Eu
1. Sir Jenico d'Artois+2 d. c Nov 1426
2. Phillipe d'Artois2 b. 1390
3. Bona d'Artois+2 b. c 1393, d. 17 Sep 1425
4. Charles d'Artois, Comte d'Eu2 b. c 1394, d. 25 Jul 1472
5. Catherine d'Artois2 b. c 1395
Children of Marie de Berry and Jean I de Bourbon, Duc de Bourbon
1. Louis I de Bourbon, Comte de Montpensier+4 d. 1486
2. Charles I de Bourbon, Duc de Bourbon+4 b. 1401, d. 4 Dec 1456
Citations
1.[S16] Jirí Louda and Michael MacLagan, Lines of Succession: Heraldry of the Royal Families of Europe, 2nd edition (London, U.K.: Little, Brown and Company, 1999), table 65. Hereinafter cited as Lines of Succession.
2.[S5792] Robin Dening, "re: Rochfort Family," e-mail message to Darryl Roger LUNDY (101053), 2 January 2012. Hereinafter cited as "re: Rochfort Family."
3.[S130] Wikipedia, online http;//www.wikipedia.org. Hereinafter cited as Wikipedia.
4.[S16] Louda and MacLagan, Lines of Succession, table 68.
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Marie du Berry1,2,3,4
Last Edited 15 Feb 2012
F, #18472, b. 1367, d. June 1434
Father John de Valois, Duke du Berry3 b. 1340, d. 15 Jun 1416
Mother Johanna d' Armagnac b. c 1346, d. 15 Mar 1387
Charts
14 Generation Pedigree of George III, King of Great Britain & Ireland (#1)
14 Generation Pedigree of George III, King of Great Britain & Ireland (#2)
14 Generation Pedigree of Friedrich Wilhelm III, King of Prussia
Marie du Berry was born in 1367.3 She married Louis II de Chatillon, Comte de Dunois, Seigneur de Romorantin, son of Guy II de Chatillon, Comte de Soissons & Blois, Seigneur d'Argies, Baume, Tongre, Chimay, Trelon, & d'Avesnes and Marie de Namur, on 29 March 1386 at Burgos, Castile-Leon, Spain.5,6,3 Marie du Berry married Philippe d' Artois, Comte d'Eu, son of Sir Jean 'Sans Terre', Comte d'Eu, Seigneur de St. Valery & d'Ault and Isabeau de Melun, on 27 January 1393 at Paris, Ile-de-France, France.7,3,4 Marie du Berry married Jean I, 4th Duke de Bourbon, Duke d'Auverge, Comte de Clermont & Montpensier, son of Louis II, 3rd Duke de Bourbon and Anne d' Auvergne, on 24 June 1400 at Paris, Ile-de-France, France.3 Marie du Berry died in June 1434 at Lyon, Rhône, Rhône-Alpes, France; Buried at Souvigny-en-Bourbonnais.3,4
Family 1
Philippe d' Artois, Comte d'Eu b. c 1358, d. 16 Jun 1397
Children

• Charles d' Artois, Comte d'Eu, Seigneur de St. Valéry & Houdain-en-Artois, Governor of Paris, Guyenne, & Normandy7 b. c Jan 1394, d. 25 Jul 1472
• Bonne d' Artois+8 b. c 1396, d. 17 Sep 1425
• Catherine d' Artois7 b. c 1397, d. bt 1418 - 1422

Family 2
Jean I, 4th Duke de Bourbon, Duke d'Auverge, Comte de Clermont & Montpensier b. Mar 1381, d. 5 Feb 1434
Children

• Louis III 'the Good', Comte de Bourbon-Montpensier+9 d. May 1486
• Charles, Duke of Bourbon, Duke d'Auvergne, Grand Marshal of France, Governor of Languedoc, Count of Clermont+ b. 1401, d. 4 Dec 1456

Citations
1.[S5517] Unknown author, Lineage and Ancestry of HRH Prince Charles by Gerald Paget, Vol. II, p. 286; The Augustan, Vol. XXII, #1, p. 27.
2.[S11569] Europaische Stammtafeln, by Wilhelm Karl, Prinz zu Isenburg, Vol. III, Tafel 72.
3.[S2] Detlev Schwennicke, Europaische Stammtafeln, New Series, Vol. XXVI, Tafel 3.
4.[S11600] 40000 Ancestors of the Counts of Paris, 21-88.
5.[S11569] Europaische Stammtafeln, by Wilhelm Karl, Prinz zu Isenburg, Vol. III, Tafel 53.
6.[S11569] Europaische Stammtafeln, by Wilhelm Karl, Prinz zu Isenburg, Vol. VII, Tafel 18.
7.[S11569] Europaische Stammtafeln, by Wilhelm Karl, Prinz zu Isenburg, Vol. III, Tafel 70.
8.[S11569] Europaische Stammtafeln, by Wilhelm Karl, Prinz zu Isenburg, Vol. III, Tafel 70; Vol. II, Tafel 27.
9.[S11569] Europaische Stammtafeln, by Wilhelm Karl, Prinz zu Isenburg, Vol. III, Tafel 72-73.
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Marie de Berry
Birth 1375
Death Jun 1434 (aged 58–59)
Burial Abbaye de Souvigny
Souvigny, Departement de l'Allier, Auvergne, France
Find a Grave Memorial ID: 65703255
Royalty. Born the daughter of Jean de Valois, Duc de Berry and his wife Jeanne d'Armagnac. She was married first to Louis de Blois-Châtillon who died in 1391 after five years of marriage. Six months later she married Philippe de Artois, Count of Eu whom she bore four children. Thirdly she married Jean de Bourbon. During Jeans imprisonment she administered his estates.
Family Members
Parents
Jean I "Magnifique" de Berry
1340–1416

Jeanne d'Armagnac
1346–1387

Spouses
Louis III de Châtillon
unknown–1391 (m. 1386)

Philippe d'Artois
1358–1397 (m. 1392)

Jean I de Bourbon
1381–1434 (m. 1400)

Siblings
Bonne de Berry
1365–1435

Children
Charles d'Artois
1394–1471

Bonne d'Artois
1396–1425

Charles I de Bourbon
1401–1456

Louis de Bourbon-Montpensier I
1405–1486
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