Antoinette de Bourbon
(1493-1583)

 

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Spouses/Children:
Claude of Guise de Lorraine

Antoinette de Bourbon 1 2 3

  • Born: 25 Dec 1493
  • Marriage: Claude of Guise de Lorraine on 9 Jun 1513
  • Died: 22 Jan 1583 aged 89

  General Notes:

In 1513 Claude de Guise married Antoinette de Bourbon (1493-1583), noted for the simplicity of her life, her renunciation of all rich materials in dress, and her great charity toward hospitals, the poor, and orphans. By her he had eight sons and four daughters.

  Noted events in her life were:

• She was a Duchess of Guise.


Antoinette married Claude of Guise de Lorraine, son of René II de Lorraine and Philippine von Geldern, on 9 Jun 1513. (Claude of Guise de Lorraine was born on 20 Oct 1496 in Château de Condé and died on 12 Apr 1550 in Joinville.)

Sources

1 Brian C. Tompsett, Directory of Royal Genealogical (Datahttp://www.dcs.hull.ac.uk/public/genealogy/royal/catalog.html
Brian Tompsett
Department of Computer Science
University of Hull
Hull, UK, HU6 7RX
B.C.Tompsett@dcs.hull.ac.uk).

2 The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume V, http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/ (The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume V
Copyright © 1909 by Robert Appleton Company
Online Edition Copyright © 1999 by Kevin Knight
Nihil Obstat, May 1, 1909. Remy Lafort, Censor
Imprimatur. +John M. Farley, Archbishop of New York), Volume VII.

3 Darryl Lundy, thePeerage.com (http://www.thepeerage.com/).

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