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Anne of Armagnac

Anne of Armagnac
Dame d'Albret
Countess of Dreux
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Coat-of-arms of the Armagnac family
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
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.


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