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Mary of Avesnes

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Mother
  
Philippa of Luxembourg

Name
  
Mary Avesnes

Died
  
1354


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Father
  
John II, Count of Holland

Role
  
John II, Count of Holland's daughter

Spouse
  
Louis I, Duke of Bourbon (m. 1310)

Children
  
Peter I, Duke of Bourbon, Beatrice of Bourbon, Queen of Bohemia, James I, Count of La Marche

Parents
  
Philippa of Luxembourg, John II, Count of Holland

Grandchildren
  
Blanche of Bourbon, Joanna of Bourbon

Grandparents
  
Adelaide of Holland, Margaret of Bar, Henry V of Luxembourg, John I, Count of Hainaut

Marie of Hainaut (1280–1354) was the daughter of John II, Count of Holland and Philippa of Luxembourg, her brother was William I, Count of Hainaut.

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Family

Her nieces by her brother William were Margaret II, Countess of Hainaut who married Louis IV, Holy Roman Emperor; and Philippa of Hainault, Queen of England, who married Edward III and was the mother of nine surviving children including Edward, the Black, Prince of Wales, father of Richard II, and John of Gaunt, father of Henry IV, and founder of the House of Lancaster.

Life

In 1310 Mary married Louis I, Duke of Bourbon, son of Robert, Count of Clermont and Beatrix of Bourbon. They had eight children,

  1. Peter I, Duke of Bourbon (1311–1356), killed at the Battle of Poitiers
  2. Jeanne (1312–1402), married in 1324 Guigues VII, Count of Forez
  3. Marguerite (1313–1362), married on July 6, 1320 Jean II de Sully, married in 1346 Hutin de Vermeilles
  4. Marie of Bourbon (1315–1387, Naples), married first in Nicosia in January 1330 Guy of Lusignan (d. 1343), titular Prince of Galilee, married second on September 9, 1347 Robert of Taranto, the titular Latin Emperor. Only her first marriage produced surviving children.
  5. Philip (1316 – aft. 1327)
  6. James (1318)
  7. James I, Count of La Marche (1319 – 1362), killed at the Battle of Brignais, from whom the later royal Bourbons descend.
  8. Beatrice of Bourbon, Queen of Bohemia (1320 – December 23, 1383, Danvillers), married first at Vincennes in 1334 John of Luxembourg, King of Bohemia as his second wife, married herself second c. 1347 Eudes II of Grancey (d. 1389)

References

Mary of Avesnes Wikipedia