Mary of Avesnes

Mary of Avesnes
Mary of Avesnes
Born	1280 Valenciennes, Nord, France
Died	1354 (aged 73–74) France
Spouse	Louis I, Duke of Bourbon ​ ​ (m. 1310; died 1341)​
House	Avesnes
Father	John II, Count of Holland
Mother	Philippa of Luxembourg

Marie of Hainaut (1280 – 1354) was the daughter of John II, Count of Holland and Philippa of Luxembourg, and her brother was William I, Count of Hainaut.

Family

Her nieces by her brother William were Margaret II, Countess of Hainaut who married Louis IV, Holy Roman Emperor; and Philippa of Hainault, Queen of England, who married Edward III and was the mother of nine surviving children including Edward, the Black, Prince of Wales, father of Richard II, and John of Gaunt, father of Henry IV, and founder of the House of Lancaster.

Life

In 1310 Mary married Louis I, Duke of Bourbon, son of Robert, Count of Clermont and Beatrix of Bourbon. They had eight children,

1. Peter I, Duke of Bourbon (1311–1356), killed at the Battle of Poitiers
2. Jeanne (1312–1402), married in 1324 Guigues VII, Count of Forez
3. Marguerite (1313–1362), married on July 6, 1320 Jean II de Sully, married in 1346 Hutin de Vermeilles
4. Marie of Bourbon (1315–1387, Naples), married first in Nicosia in January 1330 Guy of Lusignan (d. 1343), titular Prince of Galilee, married second on September 9, 1347 Robert of Taranto, the titular Latin Emperor. Only her first marriage produced surviving children.
5. Philip (1316 – aft. 1327)
6. James (1318)
7. James I, Count of La Marche (1319 – 1362), killed at the Battle of Brignais
8. Beatrice of Bourbon, Queen of Bohemia (1320 – December 23, 1383, Danvillers), married first at Vincennes in 1334 John of Luxembourg, King of Bohemia as his second wife, married herself second c. 1347 Eudes II of Grancey (d. 1389)

Ancestry

Ancestors of Mary of Avesnes

16. James of Avesnes 8. Bouchard IV of Avesnes 17. Adela of Guise 4. John I of Avesnes 18. Baldwin I of Constantinople 9. Margaret II, Countess of Flanders 19. Marie of Champagne 2. John II, Count of Holland 20. William I of Holland 10. Floris IV, Count of Holland 21. Adelaide of Guelders 5. Adelaide of Holland 22. Henry I, Duke of Brabant 11. Matilde of Brabant 23. Mathilde of Flanders 1. Mary of Avesnes 24. Henry III of Limburg 12. Waleran III of Limburg 25. Sophia of Saarbrücken 6. Henry V of Luxembourg 26. Henry IV of Luxembourg 13. Ermesinda of Luxembourg 27. Agnes of Guelders 3. Philippa of Luxembourg 28. Theobald I, Count of Bar 14. Henry II, Count of Bar 29. Ermesinde of Bar-sur-Seine 7. Margaret of Bar 30. Robert II, Count of Dreux 15. Philippa of Dreux 31. Youlande de Coucy

Sources

• Griffiths, Quentin (1993). "The Nesles of Picardy in the Service of the Last Capetians". Francia. 20 No. 1: 69–78.