Mary of Burgundy, Duchess of Savoy

Mary of Burgundy (French: Marie de Bourgogne; 1386–1428) was a Duchess of Savoy by her marriage to Amadeus VIII of Savoy, who was later known as Antipope Felix V.[1]

Mary of Burgundy
Duchess consort of Savoy
Born	1386 Dijon, Burgundy
Died	1428 (aged 41–42) Chateau of Thonon les Bains
Spouse	Amadeus VIII of Savoy
Issue	Margaret of Savoy Anthony of Savoy Anthony of Savoy Margaret, Countess Palatine of the Rhine Marie, Duchess of Milan Amadeus of Savoy, Prince of Piemonte Louis of Savoy Bonne of Savoy Philip of Savoy, Count of Genève
House	House of Valois-Burgundy House of Savoy
Father	Philip the Bold
Mother	Margaret III, Countess of Flanders

Life

Mary was the eighth of the nine children of Philip the Bold and his wife Margaret III, Countess of Flanders.

Philip of Savoy had made alliances with low county Bavarians, by marrying John to Margaret of Bavaria. Philip also made links with the Dukes of Austria and of Savoy, by marrying Catherine to Leopold IV of Austria, and Mary to Amadeus VIII Savoy, son of Amadeus VII, Count of Savoy and Bonne of Berry. Their marriage was contracted in the year of her birth, on 11 November 1386 in Sluis, Zeeland; they married by proxy 30 October 1393 in Chalon-sur-Saône and in person at Arras May 1401, when Mary was ca. 15 years old.

In 1416, Sigismund, Holy Roman Emperor elevated Amadeus from Count to Duke of Savoy. Mary duly became Duchess. From then onwards Dukes ruled over Savoy.

The couple were married for thirty-six years before Mary died in 1428 at Chateau of Thonon les Bains.[2] She is buried in the Abbey of Hautecombe.[3]

Issue

Mary and Amadeus had nine children, with further descendants:

1. Margaret of Savoy (13 May 1405 – 1418).
2. Anthony of Savoy (September 1407 – bef. 12 December 1407).
3. Anthony of Savoy (1408 – aft. 10 October 1408).
4. Marie of Savoy (end January 1411 – 22 February 1469), married Filippo Maria Visconti, duke of Milan.
5. Amadeus of Savoy (26 Mar 1412 – 17 August 1431), Prince of Piemonte.
6. Louis of Savoy (24 February 1413 – 29 January 1465), his successor.
7. Bonne of Savoy (September 1415 – 25 September 1430).
8. Philip of Savoy (1417 – 3 March 1444), Count of Genève.
9. Margaret of Savoy (7 August 1420 – 30 September 1479), married firstly Louis III, titular king of Naples, secondly Louis IV, Count Palatine of the Rhine and thirdly Ulrich V, Count of Württemberg.

Ancestry

Ancestors of Mary of Burgundy, Duchess of Savoy[4]

16. Charles, Count of Valois 8. Philip VI of France 17. Margaret, Countess of Anjou 4. John II of France 18. Robert II, Duke of Burgundy 9. Joan the Lame 19. Agnes of France 2. Philip the Bold 20. Henry VII, Holy Roman Emperor 10. John of Bohemia 21. Margaret of Brabant (≠ 7) 5. Bonne of Bohemia 22. Wenceslaus II of Bohemia 11. Elizabeth of Bohemia 23. Judith of Habsburg[5] 1. Mary of Burgundy, Duchess of Savoy 24. Louis I, Count of Nevers 12. Louis I, Count of Flanders 25. Joan, Countess of Rethel 6. Louis II, Count of Flanders 26. Philip V of France 13. Margaret I, Countess of Burgundy 27. Joan II, Countess of Burgundy 3. Margaret III, Countess of Flanders 28. John II, Duke of Brabant 14. John III, Duke of Brabant 29. Margaret of England 7. Margaret of Brabant (≠ 21) 30. Louis, Count of Évreux 15. Marie of Évreux 31. Margaret of Artois

References

1. Richard Vaughan, Philip the Bold: The Formation of the Burgundian State, (The Boydell Press, 2005), 53.
2. Richard Vaughan, Philip the Bold: The Formation of the Burgundian State, 82.
3. BURGUNDY, Medieval Lands
4. de Sousa, Antonio Caetano (1735). Historia genealogica da casa real portugueza (in Portuguese). Lisbon: Lisboa Occidental. p. 147.
5. Suckale, Robert; Crossley, Paul (2005). Prague: The Crown of Bohemia, 1347-1437. Metropolitan Museum of Art. p. 16. ISBN 9781588391612. Retrieved 23 October 2018.