Bonne of Armagnac

Bonne of Armagnac
Duchess of Orléans
Born	19 February 1399 Lavardens
Died	1430–35 Castelnau-de-Montmiral
Spouse	Charles, Duke of Orléans
House	House of Armagnac
Father	Bernard VII, Count of Armagnac
Mother	Bonne of Berry

Bonne of Armagnac (19 February 1399 – 1430/35) was the eldest daughter of Bernard VII, Count of Armagnac and constable of France, and of Bonne of Berry.

Marriage

On 15 August 1410 at the age of 11, she married Charles, Duke of Orléans (left an orphan by his father Louis's assassination in 1407). This marriage made the constable not only Charles's father-in-law but also the natural defender of both Charles and his mother Valentina Visconti. The Orléans party, decapitated by Louis's death, thus became the Armagnac party, the name it held right up to the treaty of Arras (1435).

Following the French defeat at the Battle of Agincourt on 25 October 1415, her husband was taken prisoner by the English. Bonne had not borne any children prior to his Charles's imprisonment. She died, childless, sometime between 1430 and 1435 while her husband was still in captivity.

Ancestry

Family of Bonne of Armagnac

Bernard VI of Armagnac, Count of Armagnac John I of Armagnac, Count of Armagnac Cecile de Rodez John II of Armagnac, Count of Armagnac Jean de Clermont, Count of St. Charolais Beatrice de Clermont, Dame de Charolais Jeanne d'Argies Bernard VII of Armagnac, Count of Charolais, Count of Armagnac Helie IX Talairand, Count of Périgord Roger-Bernard I, Count of Périgord Brunissende de Foix Jeanne de Périgord Bouchard VI of Vendôme Eléonore de Vendôme Alix of Brittany Bonne of Armagnac Philip VI of France John II of France Jeanne of Burgundy John, Duke of Berry John the Blind of Luxembourg Bonne of Luxembourg Elisabeth of Bohemia Bonne de Berry Bernard VI of Armagnac, Count of Armagnac John I of Armagnac, Count of Armagnac Cecile de Rodez Jeanne of Armagnac Jean de Clermont, Count of St. Charolais Beatrice of Clermont, Dame de Charolais Jeanne d'Argies

Sources

• Neillands, Robin (2001). The Hundred Years War. London: Routledge. ISBN 0-415-26131-7.