Isabella of Valois, Duchess of Bourbon

Isabella of Valois (1313 – 26 July 1383), Duchess of Bourbon, was a relative of the French royal family. She a daughter of Charles of Valois by his third wife Mahaut of Châtillon.[1] She was the wife of Peter I, Duke of Bourbon.[2]

Isabella of Valois
Duchess consort of Bourbon
Tenure	1336-1356
Born	1313
Died	26 July 1383 (aged 70)
Spouse	Peter I, Duke of Bourbon
Issue	Louis II, Duke of Bourbon Joanna, Queen of France Blanche, Queen of Castile Bonne, Duchess of Savoy Margaret of Bourbon
House	Valois
Father	Charles of Valois
Mother	Mahaut of Châtillon

Marriage and issue

On 25 January 1336 Isabella married Peter I, Duke of Bourbon,[1] son of Louis I, Duke of Bourbon and Mary of Avesnes. Peter and Isabella had only one son, Louis and seven daughters. Her husband died at the Battle of Poitiers in 1356,[3] and Isabella never remarried. After her husband's death Isabella's son Louis became the Duke of Bourbon. In the same year 1356, Isabella arranged for her daughter Joanna to marry Charles V of France; as he was at the time the Dauphin of France, Joanna duly became Dauphine.

1. Louis II, Duke of Bourbon, 1337-1410,[4] became Duke of Bourbon in 1356 married Anne of Auvergne had issue.
2. Joanna of Bourbon, 1338-1378, married King Charles V of France, had issue.[1]
3. Blanche of Bourbon, 1339-1361, married King Peter of Castile,[5] she was murdered by him in 1361 and had no issue.
4. Bonne of Bourbon, 1341-1402, married Amadeus VI of Savoy, by whom she had issue.[1]
5. Catherine of Bourbon, 1342-1427, married John VI of Harcourt[1]
6. Margaret of Bourbon, 1344-1416, married Arnaud Amanieu, Lord of Albret, by whom she had issue.
7. Isabelle of Bourbon, 1345-1345, died young
8. Marie of Bourbon, 1347-1401, prioress of Poissy[1]

Isabella in her later years

She had as her butler Jean Saulnier, knight, lord of Thoury-on-Abron, councilor and chamberlain of the king, bailli of Saint-Pierre-le-Moûtier.[6]

When she became a widow, she took the veil. She died on 26 July 1383 at the age of seventy. She was buried in Eglise des Frères Mineurs in Paris.

Ancestors

Ancestors of Isabella of Valois, Duchess of Bourbon

16. Louis VIII of France 8. Louis IX of France 17. Blanche of Castile 4. Philip III of France 18. Ramon Berenguer IV, Count of Provence 9. Margaret of Provence 19. Beatrice of Savoy 2. Charles of Valois 20. Peter II of Aragon 10. James I of Aragon 21. Marie of Montpellier 5. Isabella of Aragon 22. Andrew II of Hungary 11. Violant of Hungary 23. Yolanda de Courtenay 1. Isabella of Valois 24. Hugh I, Count of Blois 12. Guy III, Count of Saint-Pol 25. Mary, Countess of Blois 6. Guy IV, Count of Saint-Pol 26. Henry II, Duke of Brabant 13. Matilda of Brabant 27. Marie of Hohenstaufen 3. Mahaut of Châtillon 28. John I, Duke of Brittany 14. John II, Duke of Brittany 29. Blanche of Navarre 7. Marie of Brittany 30. Henry III of England 15. Beatrice of England 31. Eleanor of Provence

References

1. Joni M. Hand, Women, Manuscripts and Identity in Northern Europe, 1350-1550, (Ashgate Publishing, 2013), 217.
2. Jean de Venette, The Chronicle of Jean de Venette, translator Jean Birdsall, editor Richard A. Newhall, (Columbia University Press, 1953), 312.
3. David Nicolle, Poitiers 1356: The Capture of a King, (Osprey, 2004), 24.
4. Jean de Venette, The Chronicle of Jean de Venette, translator Jean Birdsall, editor Richard A. Newhall, (Columbia University Press, 1953), 312.
5. Jean de Venette, The Chronicle of Jean de Venette, translator Jean Birdsall, editor Richard A. Newhall, (Columbia University Press, 1953), 312.
6. Abbé Jacques-François Baudiau, Le Morvand, Nevers, 1865, 3e éd. Guénégaud, Paris, 1965, 3 vol., t.II, p. 152.