Margaret, Countess of Vertus

Margaret, Countess of Vertus , was born onDecember 1406. She was the daughter of Louis I, Duke of Orlans, and Valentina Visconti, and the granddaughter and niece of King Charles V of France and King Charles VI of France, respectively. Her mother was the daughter of Gian Galeazzo Visconti, Duke of Milan, and Isabella of France, who was a daughter of King John II of France. Her brother was the famous and unfortunate Charles, Duke of Orlans, , captured at Agincourt and imprisoned for twentyfive years in England and who during his long captivity, became the greatest poet of the 15th century in the French language.

In 1423 she married Richard of Montfort, son of John IV, Duke of Brittany, and Joanna of Navarre, later Queen of England as wife of Henry Bolingbroke. Margaret succeeded her brother Philip as Countess of Vertus. She and Richard had seven children, of whom only two, Francis and Catherine, would have progeny. In 1458 Francis succeeded his uncle Arthur III as Duke of Brittany. Margaret, widowed in 1438, lived for a long time at Longchamp and in other monasteries with her younger daughters, Margaret and Madeleine . She was a very pious woman.

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