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Marie of Anjou
Queen consort of France
Tenure	1422-1461
Spouse	Charles VII of France
House	House of Anjou House of Valois
Father	Louis II of Anjou
Mother	Yolande of Aragon
Born	14 October 1404(1404-10-14) Angers
Died	1463 (aged 58–59) Abbaye de Chateliers-en-Poitou

Marie of Anjou (14 October 1404–1463) was the Queen consort of King Charles VII of France from 1422 to 1461.

Contents 1 Family 2 Marriage 3 Children 4 Ancestry

[edit] Family

Marie was the eldest daughter of Louis II of Anjou, King of Naples, titular King of Sicily, and Yolande of Aragon, Queen of Aragon. Her paternal grandparents were Louis I of Anjou, King of Naples and Marie de Blois, Lady of Guise. Her maternal grandparents were John I of Aragon and Yolande de Bar. Marie had five surviving siblings, including Louis III of Anjou and René I of Anjou. One of her nieces was Margaret of Anjou, Queen consort of King Henry VI of England who was the de jure King of France from 1422 to 1429.

[edit] Marriage

She married her second cousin King Charles VII in April 1422 at Bourges (they were both great-grandchildren of John II of France and his first wife Bonne of Bohemia), and became Queen consort of Charles, although Charles himself was not crowned King until 17 July 1429 at Reims, following the successful endeavors of Joan of Arc in expelling the English from most of France. Her husband's victory in the Hundred Years War owed a great deal to the support he received from Marie's family, notably from her mother Yolande of Aragon. Although Marie and Charles had twelve children, her husband's affection was primarily directed towards his mistress, Agnès Sorel.

In the drawing seen to the left, her Court chaplain, Robert Blondel, presents her with the allegorical Treatise of the "Twelve Perils of Hell," which he composed for her (1455). Facsimile of a miniature from this work. Bibl. de l'Arsenal, Paris.

Marie of Anjou died in 1463 at the Abbaye de Chateliers-en-Poitou.

[edit] Children

Marie was the mother of twelve children

• Louis XI, King of France (1423-1483)
• John of France (1424-1425)
• Radegonde de France (1428-1444)
• Catherine (1428-1446), married Charles de Charolais, future Charles le Téméraire, Duke of Burgundy, in 1440
• Jacques de France (1432-1437)
• Yolande de France (1434-1478), married the future Amadeus IX, Duke of Savoy in 1452. Upon his death in 1472, she became regent of Savoy.
• Joan (1435-1482), married the future John II, Duke of Bourbon in 1452
• Margaret of France (1437-1438)
• Mary of France (7 September 1438 – 14 February 1439)
• Jeanne (7 September 1438 – 26 December 1446)
• Magdalena of Valois (1443-1486), married Gaston de Foix,
• Charles, Duc de Berry (1446-1472)

[edit] Ancestry

French royalty
Preceded by Isabeau of Bavaria	Queen consort of France 1422 – 22 July 1461	Succeeded by Charlotte of Savoy

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