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Marie of France (18 September 1344 – 15 October 1404) was the sixth child and second daughter of
John II of France and
Bonne of Bohemia .
[1]
Marriage and issue
In 1364, Marie married
Robert I, Duke of Bar .
[1] Marie had an extensive library and obtained works about a variety of topics. She read romances and poetry, but also works about history and theology.[
citation needed ]
Jean d'Arras dedicated his Roman de Mélusine to Marie.
[2]
Marie and Robert I were parents to eleven children:
Charles of Bar (d. 1392)
Henry of Bar (d. October 1397) in
Treviso ,
Italy , of the plague; married
Marie de Coucy, Countess of Soissons
Philip of Bar (d. 25 September 1396), killed at the
Battle of Nicopolis
Edward III, Duke of Bar (d. 25 October 1415), killed at the
Battle of Agincourt
John of Bar (d. 25 October 1415), killed at the
Battle of Agincourt
Louis, Duke of Bar (d. 1431).
Bishop of Verdun and
bishop of Chalon , later a
Cardinal . He was childless and his designated heir and eventual successor was
René I of Naples .
Marie of Bar, married
William II, Marquis of Namur in 1384
Yolande of Bar (c. 1365 - 1431), married
John I of Aragon in 1384
Bonne of Bar, married
Waleran III of Luxembourg, Count of Ligny in 1393
Joanna of Bar (d. 15 January 1402, married
Theodore II, Marquis of Montferrat in 1393
Yolande the Younger of Bar, named after older sister for uncertain reasons, married
Adolf, Duke of Jülich-Berg
Notes
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a
b Jean d'Arras, Melusine; or, The Noble History of Lusignan , transl. Donald Maddox, (The Pennsylvania State University Press, 2012), 234.
^ Pit Péporté, Constructing the Middle Ages: Historiography, Collective Memory and Nation-Building in Luxembourg , (Brill, 2011), 77.
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