Mary (Lancaster) de Lancaster (1434 - 1458)

Born 1434 in England

Ancestors

Died 1458 at about age 24 in England

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Biography

From Richardson:

MARY OF BEDFORD. She married before 1435 PIERRE DE MONTFERRAND (or MONTFERRANT), Knt. They had three sons, Thomas, Bertrand, and Francois [baron of Uzeste and Portets, Soudan of La trau], and one daughter, Mathilde.

Her husband was a knight of Guyenne, a subject of the English Kings. His father Bertrand is described on French Wikipedia as the premier baron of Guyenne.^[1]

Bailey writes:

Mary of Bedford, was in 1435 to marry into the newly established Landiras branch of the Montferrand family. Her husband, eventually executed in Poitiers, pursued perhaps the most dramatic career of all the late-medieval Montferrands.

...and also...

This “girl bastard of Lancaster”, born of an unknown woman, is identified variously as Mary Plantagenet, Mary of Lancaster, … of Bedford, … of England. Remembered in hi story as the Duke of Bedford, her father, John of Lancaster (1389-1435), was appointed regent of France (1423-1433) for his nephew, Henry VI, and then regent of England (1433-1434). [...] Baurein (I, 157) states that her dowry was 500 livres tournoisin lands and guaranteed income. With the duke’s death before all the dowry was transferred, Pierre de Montferrand became in part dependent upon the good graces of the English king Henry VI, the duke’s universal heir.

Sources

• Royal Ancestry by D. Richardson Vol. III p. 507
• Discussion online of Douglas Richardson and Leo van der Pas.
• Bailey, D. (2013). Les Châteaux de Landiras et de Montferrand and Their Seigneurial Families—Part One: Setting, Medieval History, and Genealogy. Advances in Historical Studies, 2, 81-93. doi: 10.4236/ahs.2013.22012. http://file.scirp.org/Html/33380.html

1. ↑ https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bertrand_III_de_Montferrand

Also see, cited by Baily and others:

Communay, A. (1889). Essai généalogique sur les Montferrand de Guyenne, suivi de pièces justificatives. Bordeaux: Vve Moquet.

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