Brief lives of women who reigned or ruled in their own right or by marriage by providing their a) personal and family background; b) proprietary titles; c) parents/pedigree; d) patrimony and properties; e) persona or personality; f) powers exercised, g) patronages and h) partner(s) and posterity.
JACQUELINE D'ESTOUTEVILLE (d.1550)
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Proprietary Titles: Lady of Hambye, Moyon, Briquebec and Gassé.
Parents/Pedigree: Only child and heiress of Guyon d'Estouteville (d. c1513), and Isabelle de Croy. Guyon was the Lord of Moyon, Hambye, Bricquebec, Gace, etc. and Baron of l'Echiquier, 1484, 1485 and 1505. He also acquired the domains of Brucheville, Riomes, Etreville with the Viscounty of Carentan and the lands of Gonnory with the Viscounty of Orbec.
Partner/Progeny: She married her cousin Jean III d'Estouteville, with whom she had an only child Adrienne d'Estouteville who inherited everything.
JACQUELINE DE LA TREMOILLE (d.1544)
Proprietary Titles: Lady of Jonville and Dracy.
JACQUELINE DE LA TREMOILLE (d.1599)
Proprietary Titles: Baroness of Maran
Jacqueline de Longwy (1520-1561)
Proprietary Titles: Countess of Bar-sur-Seine
Parents/Pedigree: Daughter of Jean IV of Longwy (d.1520), Lord of Givry, Pagny and Mirabeau, and Jeanne of Angouleme (c1490-after 1531/38), Countess of Bar-sur-Seine, the illegitimate half-sister of Francois I of France.
Partner/Progeny: Married in 1538, as his 1st wife, Louis III of Bourbon, Duke of Montpensier, with whom she had 1 son and 5 children.
JACQUELINE DE ROHAN, Marquise de Rothelin (1520-1587)
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JAKOBA VON BAYERN (1401-1436)
Proprietary Titles: Countess of Holland and Hainaut and Lady of Friesland, 1417-1433.
Parents/Pedigree: Only child of Willem VI of Bavaria, Count of Hainaut, Holland and Zeeland, Lord of Friesland, and Marguerite of Burgundy.
Partners/Progeny: Married (1) Jean of France (d.1417), Dauphin and Duke of Touraine; married (2) Jean IV of Brabant (d.1427); married (1420) Humphrey of England, Duke of Gloucester; (4) Frank van Borselen.
JEANNE D'ALBRET (d.1444)
Proprietary Title: Countess of Dreux
JEANNE D'AUMALE (c1325-1376)
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Proprietary Title: Lady of Epernon.
Parents/Pedigree: Daughter of Jean II d'Aumale and of Catherine d'Artois.
Partner/Progeny: Married Jean VII (1320-?), Count of Vendome, with whom she had Bourchard VII de Vendome, and Catherine de Vendome.
JEANNE D'AUVERGNE (d.1422)
Proprietary Titles: Countess of Auvergne and Boulogne, 1394.
JEANNE D'AVAUGOUR (d.1327)
Proprietary Titles: Countess of Goello and Avaugour.
JEANNE D'AVESNES (d.1350)
Proprietary Titles: Countess of Soissons.
JEANNE D'AYDIE
Proprietary Titles: Countess of Comminges.
JEANNE DE BAR (1415-1462)
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Proprietary Titles: Countess of Soissons and of Marle, Lady of Oisy and of Dunkerque, 1415-1462; Viscountess of Meaux, 1450; Countess of Saint-Pol, of Brienne, of Ligny and of Conversano.
Parents/Pedigree: Only child of Robert de Bar (1390-1415), Count of Marle and Soissons, Lord of Oisy, and of Jeanne de Bethune (1397-1450), Viscountess of Meuax.
Partner/Progeny: Married, in 1435, as his 1st wife, Jean II de Luxembourg (1418-1475), Count of Saint-Pol, of Brienne, of Ligny, and of Conversano, Constable of France.
JEANNE DE BETHUNE (1497-1450)
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Parents/Pedigree: Only child of Robert de Bar (1390-1415), Count of Marle and Soissons, Lord of Oisy, and of Jeanne de Bethune (1397-1450), Viscountess of Meuax.
Partner/Progeny: Married, in 1435, as his 1st wife, Jean II de Luxembourg (1418-1475), Count of Saint-Pol, of Brienne, of Ligny, and of Conversano, Constable of France.
JEANNE DE BETHUNE (1497-1450)
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Proprietary Title: Viscountess of Meaux, 1408.
Parents/Pedigree: Daughter of Robert VIII de Bethune, Viscount of Meaux, and of Isabelle de Ghistelles.
Partners/Progeny: Married (1) in 1409, Robert de Bar, with whom she had one daughter, Jeanne de Bar, Countess of Marle and Soissons; (2) in 1418, Jean de Luxembourg, Count of Ligny, with whom she had no childre..
Parents/Pedigree: Daughter of Robert VIII de Bethune, Viscount of Meaux, and of Isabelle de Ghistelles.
Partners/Progeny: Married (1) in 1409, Robert de Bar, with whom she had one daughter, Jeanne de Bar, Countess of Marle and Soissons; (2) in 1418, Jean de Luxembourg, Count of Ligny, with whom she had no childre..
JEANNE DE CHATEAUDUN (1219-c1265)
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Proprietary Titles: Dame de Chateau-du-Loir, le Boux, Loupelande, Mayet, Ouistille and others.
Parents/Pedigree: Eldest daughter and co-heiress of Geoffroi VI, Vicomte de Chateaudun, Seigneur de Chateaudun, Chateau-du-Loir, Loupelande, Mayet, Montdoubleau and la Suze, and of Clemence de Roches, younger daughter and co-heiress of Guillaume des Roches, Seneschal of Maine and Anjou.
Partners/Progeny: Married (1) Jean de Montfort (d.1249), Comte de Montfort-l'Amaury; (2) in 1251 Jean de Brienne, with whom she had a daughter Blanche.
JEANNE DE DAMMARTIN (1220-1279)
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Proprietary Titles: Comtesse de Ponthieu and Montreuil, 1251 (succeeding her mother); Comtesse d'Aumale, 1259 (as co-heiress to her cousin, Mahaut de Dammartin, Countess of Boulogne and Damamrtin).
Parents/Pedigree: Daughter and co-heiress of Simon de Dammartin (1180-1239), Count of Ponthieu and Montreuil, and of Marie de Ponthieu, heiress of of Guillaume II Talvas, Comte de Ponthieu and Montreuil.
Partners/Progeny: She married (1) in 1237, Fernando III of Castile (d.1252); (2) in 1260/61, as his 2nd wife, Jean de Nesle (d.1292), Seigneur de Falvy-sur-Somme and la Herelle, and Comte de Ponthieu, Montreuil and Aumale, in right of his wife, with whom she had a daughter, Jeanne de Nesle.
JEANNE D'HARCOURT (d.1488)
Proprietary Title: Countess of Tancarville, 1484-1488; Lady of Montreuil-Bellay and of Parthenay.
Parents/Pedigree: Guillaume d'Harcourt (d.1484), Count of Tancarville and Viscount of Melun, and of Yolande de Laval.
Partner/Progeny: Married (1) in 1471, divorced, 1475, Rene of Vaudemont (1451-1508), the future Rene II of Lorraine, with whom she had no children.
Notes: "After the death of his first wife, the Bastard of Orleans married Marie d'Harcourt, countess of Tancarville, in 1440 in the cathedral of Orleans. The couple resided at Beaugency, rather than in the crude fortress of Chateaudun. Marie received into her household Dunoi's natural son by Isabelle de Breux. She herself had a daughter,also named Marie, in November 1440." (Pernoud, et. al., p. 181)
JELENA GRUBA, Queen of Bosnia (d.1399)
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Proprietary Title: Queen of Bosnia, 1395-1398
Note: "On Dabisha's death in 1395 the all-powerful magnates, disregarding the treaty of Djakovo, made his widow, Helena Gruba, regent for his son. But they retained for themselves all real power, governing their domains as almost independent princes, maintaining their own courts and issuing charters, coining their own money and negotiating on their own account with foreign states, such as the Republics of Venice and Ragusa... The great Turkish invasion, which took place in 1398 and almost entirely ruined Bosnia, convinced the great nobles that a woman was unfitted to rule. Headed by Hrvoje, they accordingly deposed Helena Gruba, and elected Stephen Ostoja, probably an illegitimate son of Tvrtko, as their King...." (Essays on the Latin Orient, pp. 481-482)
Partner/Progeny: She married Stjepan Dabisa of Bosnia (1339-1395)
JELENA GRUBA, Queen of Bosnia (d.1399)
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Proprietary Title: Queen of Bosnia, 1395-1398
Note: "On Dabisha's death in 1395 the all-powerful magnates, disregarding the treaty of Djakovo, made his widow, Helena Gruba, regent for his son. But they retained for themselves all real power, governing their domains as almost independent princes, maintaining their own courts and issuing charters, coining their own money and negotiating on their own account with foreign states, such as the Republics of Venice and Ragusa... The great Turkish invasion, which took place in 1398 and almost entirely ruined Bosnia, convinced the great nobles that a woman was unfitted to rule. Headed by Hrvoje, they accordingly deposed Helena Gruba, and elected Stephen Ostoja, probably an illegitimate son of Tvrtko, as their King...." (Essays on the Latin Orient, pp. 481-482)
Partner/Progeny: She married Stjepan Dabisa of Bosnia (1339-1395)
a.k.a. Johanna de Baden-Sausenberg
Personal and Family Background: Daughter of Philipp von Hochberg and of Marie de Savoie.
Partner(s) and Progeny: She married in 1504, Louis I of Orleans (1480-1516)
Notes: "...Neuchatel...had lately returned under the sceptre of its former mistress, Jeanne de Hochberg, the only daughter and heiress of Philip, Count of Neuchatel, which she had lost in the lifetime of her husband, Louis d'Orleans, Duke of Longueville...." (Wylie, p. 953)
JEANNE DE MELUN
Notes: "...From the house of Melun, this same earldom passed into that of Harcourt, by the union of Jane of Melun with William of Harcourt—their daughter, who inherited the property, afterwards carried it in dower to John, Count of Dunois and of Longueville....." (Castle at Tancarville)
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Proprietary Titles: Queen of Navarre, ; Princess of Bois-Belle; Duchess of Albret, Countess of Foix, of Perigord, of Bigorre, of Dreux, of Gause, oof Perche, of L'Isle-Jourdain, of Porhoet, of Pardiac and of Guines; Viscountess of Limoges, of Bearn, of Tartas, of Lomagne, of Maremne, of Fezensaguet, of Dax, of Brulhois, of Cressey and of Auvillars; Baroness of Castelnau, of Caussade, and of Montmirail; Lady of La Fleche, of Bauge, of Nerac, of Seully, of Craon, of La Chapelle des Aix-dam-Gilon, of Argent, of Clermont, of Villezon, of Orval, of Espineuil, of Chateau-Meillant, of Montrond, of Bruyeres, of Dun-Le-Roi, of Saint-Gondon, of Corberin, ofChalucet, of Sainte-Hermine, of Prahec, of Lussac, of Champagne, of Blois and of Chisay, 1555-1572.
MARIE D'ORLEANS
"After the extinction of the kingdom of Arles or Burgundy, Neuchatel was governed by a succession of petty sovereigns. The direct line failing, the country was possessed by a collateral branch, the counts of Friburgh, in opposition to the counts of Chalons, who claimed it as liege lords. On the extinction of the male line it was transferred to the family of Hochberg, and the heiress of this house conveyed it in marriage to Louis d'Orleans, duke of Longueville (1504). His last descendant, Mary d'Orleans, duchess of Nemours, dying in 1707 without issue, numerous claimants appeared; but the right of Frederic the First, king of Prussia, as heir to the house of Chalons, was acknowledged by the states of the country; and it now forms part of the Prussian dominions." (Coxe, p. 129)
REFERENCES
Pernoud, R., Clin, M., Adams, J. (1998). Joan of Arc: Her Story. New York: St. Martin's Press.
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