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Anne (Alençon) d'Alençon (1492 - 1562)

Anne d'Alençon formerly Alençon
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Wife of — married 31 Oct 1508 [location unknown]
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Died at age 69 in Casale Monferrato, Italymap
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Biography

This biography is a rough draft. It was auto-generated by a GEDCOM import and needs to be edited.

Death

Death:
Date: 18 OCT 1562
Place: Casale Monferrato, Italy

Note

Anne of Alençon
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Anne d'Alençon (Italian: Anna d'Alençon) (30 October 1492 - 18 October 1562), Lady of La Guerche was a Marquise of Montferrat. She acted as Regent of the Marquisate of Montferrat for her son, Boniface from 1518 to his death in 1530.
Life
Anne was the third child of René, Duke of Alençon and his second wife Margaret of Lorraine, daughter of Frederick, Count of Vaudémont and Yolande of Anjou. Her father died two days after her birth.
She was betrothed to William IX, Marquis of Montferrat in 1501 and married him on 31 October 1508, the day after her sixteenth birthday, in the church of St. Sauveur in Blois. She bore her husband three children:
Maria (1509?1530),
Margherita, (1510-1566),
Boniface (1512-1530), William's heir who became Boniface IV of Montferrat.
In 1517, her eldest daughter, Maria, was betrothed to Federico II Gonzaga, son of Isabella d'Este, who later became Marquis and Duke of Mantua. The marriage contract was annulled, however, after Federico accused Maria of attempting to poison his mistress Isabella Boschetti, wife of the Count of Calvisano.
On the death of William in 1518, the infant Boniface inherited the Marquisate. Anne, however, acted as regent until his unexpected death in June 1530 and she remained involved in the government of Montferrat when Boniface was succeeded as Marquis by her brother-in-law John George, previously commendatory abbot of Lucedio and (unconsecrated) Bishop of Casale.
Boniface?s death also rekindled Federico II Gonzaga?s interest in marrying Maria. On the latter?s unexpected death in September 1530 his attentions turned to the second daughter, Margherita. Having weighed up the various proposalsfor Margherita?s hand, Anne opted for the link with the House of Gonzaga and the marriage was concluded in October 1531.
In 1533 the Marquis John George died, leaving one natural son, but no heir. A dispute over the succession to the Marquisate, an imperial fiefdom, ensued, the contenders being the Gonzaga, the Marquis of Saluzzo and the House of Savoy, all of whom were able to make plausible claims. Meanwhile the Montferrat was effectively under Spanish domination. In 1536 Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor assigned the fiefdom to Margherita Paleologa and her husband, Federico II, Duke of Mantua. Anne, however, returned as de facto ruler. In 1540 Federico II died at Marmirolo and was succeeded by his seven year old son Francesco as Marquis of Montferrat and Duke of Mantua. Margherita Paleologo Gonzaga became regent, together with her brother-in-law Cardinal Ercole Gonzaga.
On retiring from public life Anne d'Alençon entered the convent of Dominican Sisters of Catherine of Siena which adjoined her palazzo in Casale Monferrato. She died on 18 October 1562, shortly before her seventieth birthday.
[edit]The Alençon inheritance
In 1525, following the Battle of Pavia, Anne?s brother Charles IV, Duke of Alençon died leaving his personal property to Anne and to her sister Françoise d'Alençon. (This inheritance was disputed unsuccessfully by Charles?s widow,Marguerite d'Angoulême, sister of Francis I, King of France.) Anne in turn assigned these assets to Isabella Gonzaga, the eldest daughter of Federico and Margherita. Isabella having renounced the inheritance, Margherita succeededin having them transferred to her third son Ludovico, later Duke of Nevers and founder of the Gonzaga Nevers branch of the House of Gonzaga.
[edit]References
This article, as of 2007-03-07, was substantially based on its equivalent in the Italian Wikipedia.

Sources

  • WikiTree profile D'Alençon-7 created through the import of export-BloodTree.ged on Aug 19, 2011 by Luiz Sergio Heinzelmann. See the Changes page for the details of edits by Luiz Sergio and others.







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