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    Catherine of Bourbon (1440 in Liège – 21 May 1469 in Nijmegen) was Duchess of Guelders from 1465-1469 by her marriage to Adolf, Duke of Guelders. She was...
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    Philippa of Guelders (French: Philippe de Gueldres; 1464 – 1547), was a Duchess consort of Lorraine. She served as regent of Lorraine in 1509 during the...
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    the Frisian peasant rebellion and the Guelders Wars. Charles was the son of Adolf of Egmond and Catherine of Bourbon. He born either at Arnhem or at Grave...
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    Charles de Bourbon (1401 – 4 December 1456) was the oldest son of John I, Duke of Bourbon and Marie, Duchess of Auvergne. Charles was Count of Clermont-en-Beauvaisis...
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    Agnes of Burgundy (1407 – 1 December 1476), duchess of Bourbon (Bourbonnais) and Auvergne, countess of Clermont, was the daughter of John the Fearless...
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    Catherine of Valois or Catherine of France (27 October 1401 – 3 January 1437) was Queen of England from 1420 until 1422. A daughter of King Charles VI...
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    measures against Guelders, but their critics in the Estates General (that had continuously voted against providing funds for wars against Guelders) and among...
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    most notably Barbara Palmer, 1st Duchess of Cleveland, whom Catherine was forced to accept as one of her Ladies of the Bedchamber. By his mistresses...
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    Charles's accession, she was known as the Duchess of Cornwall. On 8 September 2022, Charles became king upon the death of his mother, Queen Elizabeth II, with...
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    his cousin Nicholas in 1473. René married Philippa of Guelders, daughter of Adolf, Duke of Guelders, in Orléans on 1 September 1485 and had the following...
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    Guelders with the Netherlands. It was also contested by the Duchy of Lorraine, who regarded Guelders as their property through Philippa of Guelders,...
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    Before her husband's accession, she was successively Duchess of York, Duchess of Cornwall, and Princess of Wales. As queen consort from 1910, Mary supported...
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    of linen and silk. Then again in 1466, the Duke of Burgundy, Philip the Good purchased another suite for his niece, Catherine of Bourbon, duchess of Guelders...
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    second time in 1548, to Antoine de Bourbon, Duke of Vendôme. They had two surviving children, Henry and Catherine. When her father died in 1555, Jeanne...
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  • titular Dukes of Lorraine. Princess of Joinville List of consorts of Guise Duchess of Nemours Duchess of Elbeuf Duchess of Mayenne Duchess of Aumale Over...
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    behalf of her daughter from 1554 until her death in 1560. The eldest of the twelve children born to Claude, Duke of Guise, and Antoinette of Bourbon, in...
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    son to Henry's sister Catherine de Bourbon. He married Claude of Valois, princess of France, daughter of king Henry II and Catherine de' Medici. They had...
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    French Wars of Religion. Claude was born at the Château de Condé-sur-Moselle, the second son of René II, Duke of Lorraine, and Philippa of Guelders. He was...
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    Marie of Cleves (19 September 1426 – 23 August 1487) was the third wife of Charles, Duke of Orléans. She was born a German princess, the last child of Adolph...
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  • (aged 35/36) in 1428. Catherine of Cleves (aged 12) was married to Arnold, Duke of Guelders (aged 19), in January 1430. Jacquetta of Luxembourg (aged 17)...
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    II, Duke of Bourbon (1337–1410). On the 5 May 1405 she married Reinald IV, Duke of Guelders and Jülich. The proclamation page in her book of hours is...
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    daughter Isabella and Lady Anne, the Duchess of York was saddened by James's extra-marital affair with Catherine Sedley. Mary's spirits were briefly revived...
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    of the French Wars of Religion. Although the royal age of majority was 14, his mother, Catherine de' Medici, entrusted the reins of government to his wife...
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  • Mechtild of Guelders, Duchess of Guelders, 1371–84 Mechtild of Reifferscheid (d. 1437), Heiress of Lordship of Bedburg Melisende of Arsuf, Lady of Arsuf...
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    months of their marriage, she was also Queen of Poland and Grand Duchess of Lithuania. As a dowager queen, Louise held the title of Duchess of Berry....
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    of Valois (9 November 1389 – 13 September 1409) was Queen of England as the wife of Richard II, King of England, between 1396 and 1399, and Duchess of...
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    was Duke of Lorraine from 1544–1545. Born in Nancy, Francis was the eldest son of Antoine, Duke of Lorraine and Renée de Bourbon, daughter of Gilbert de...
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    Adolf's sister, Catherine, and Emperor Maximilian I claimed the Duchy of Guelders. The Emperor's claim was based on his marriage with Mary of Burgundy. When...
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    of Savoy in the south. For this purpose, he acquired Guelders and Upper Alsace; sought the title King of the Romans; and gradually became an enemy of...
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  • Duchess of Calabria was the traditional title of the wife of the heir apparent of the Kingdom of Naples after the accession of Robert of Naples. It was...
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