Anne of Armagnac | |
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Dame d'Albret Countess of Dreux |
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Coat-of-arms of the Armagnac family
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Spouse(s) | Charles II d'Albret |
Issue
Jean I d'Albret, Sire d'Albret, Viscount of Talvas
Arnaud Amanieu d'Albret, Sire d'Orval Charles d'Albret, Seigneur de Sainte-Bazielle Cardinal Louis d'Albret, Bishop of Cahors Gilles d'Albret, Seigneur Castelmoron Marie d'Albret Jeanne d'Albret, Countess of Dreux |
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Noble family | Armagnac |
Father | Bernard VII of Armagnac, Count of Charolais, Count of Armagnac |
Mother | Bonne de Berry |
Born | 1402 Gages, near Rodez, France |
Died | Before March 1473 |
Anne of Armagnac, Dame d'Albret, Countess of Dreux (1402 – before March 1473) was a French noblewoman and a member of the powerful Gascon Armagnac family which played a prominent role in French politics during the Hundred Years War and were the principal adversaries of the Burgundians throughout the Armagnac-Burgundian Civil War. Anne was the wife of Charles II d'Albret. One of her illustrious descendants was Queen Jeanne III of Navarre, mother of King Henry IV, the first Bourbon king of France.
Her illegitimate son was Jean de Lescun, known as the "bastard of Armagnac".
Anne was born in 1402 in Gages, near Rodez, France, the daughter of Bernard VII of Armagnac, Count of Charolais, Count of Armagnac, and Bonne de Berry, who was the widow of Amadeus VII of Savoy. Anne had six siblings, these included John IV of Armagnac, Bernard of Armagnac, and Bonne of Armagnac, wife of Charles, Duke of Orléans. She had three half-siblings from her mother's marriage to Count Amadeus, including Amadeus VIII of Savoy.
Her paternal gandparents were John II of Armagnac and Jeanne de Périgord, and her maternal grandparents were John, Duke of Berry and Jeanne of Armagnac.