Anne de la Tour d'Auvergne

Anne, Countess of Auvergne

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Spouse John Stewart, Duke of Albany

Noble family La Tour

Father John III, Count of Auvergne

Mother Jeanne de Bourbon-Vendome

Born 1496

Died 1524 (aged 28)

Anne de la Tour d'Auvergne was sovereign Countess of Auvergne from 1501 until 1524, and Duchess of Albany by marriage to John Stewart, Duke of Albany.

Family

She was the elder of the two daughters born to Jean III of la Tour d'Auvergne and Jeanne of Bourbon-Vendôme. Her younger sister was Madeleine of la Tour d'Auvergne, who would marry Lorenzo II de' Medici and become the mother of Catherine de' Medici. As the elder daughter, Anne was her father's heiress.

Marriage

In 1505, she married her first cousin John Stewart, Duke of Albany, the intermittent heir presumptive to the Kingdom of Scotland and its sometime-regent, who lived in France as a sort of exile.

Death and inheritance

Anne died in 1524, leaving her inheritance (the feudal county of Auvergne) to her infant niece, Caterina de' Medici of Urbino (born 1519), daughter of her late younger sister Madeleine and Lorenzo II, Duke of Urbino. Catherine, thus countess of Auvergne, afterward married Henri, Duke of Orleans, and by his accession to the French throne as Henry II, became Queen Catherine of France.

A manuscript detailing Anne's inheritance, with pictures of her castles, and her descent from the legendary Belle Moree survives in the Royal Library of the Hague.[1]

Ancestry

1 Herself Anne, Countess of Auvergne

2 Father John III, Count of Auvergne

3 Mother Jeanne de Bourbon-Vendome

4 Father's Father Bertrand VI of Auvergne

5 Father's Mother Louise de la Tremoille

6 Mother's Father Jean VIII, Count of Vendôme

7 Mother's Mother Isabelle de Beauvau

8 Father's Father's Father Bertrand V de la Tour

9 Father's Father's Mother Jacquette du Peschin

10 Father's Mother's Father Georges de la Tremoille

11 Father's Mother's Mother Catherine de L'Isle-Bouchard

12 Mother's Father's Father Louis, Count of Vendome

13 Mother's Father's Mother Jeanne of Laval

14 Mother's Mother's Father Louis de Beauvau

15 Mother's Mother's Mother Marguerite de Chambley

16 Father's Father's Father's Father Bertrand IV of la Tour

17 Father's Father's Father's Mother Marie I, Countess of Auvergne

18 Father's Father's Mother's Father Louis du Peschin

19 Father's Father's Mother's Mother Ysoul de Sully

20 Father's Mother's Father's Father Guy de La Trémoïlle

21 Father's Mother's Father's Mother Marie de Sully

22 Father's Mother's Mother's Father Jean de L'Isle-Bouchard

23 Father's Mother's Mother's Mother Jeanne de Bueil

24 Mother's Father's Father's Father John I, Count of La Marche

25 Mother's Father's Father's Mother Catherine de Vendôme

26 Mother's Father's Mother's Father Guy XIII de Laval

27 Mother's Father's Mother's Mother Anne de Laval

28 Mother's Mother's Father's Father Pierre de Beauveau

29 Mother's Mother's Father's Mother Jeanne de Craon

30 Mother's Mother's Mother's Father Ferry V de Chambley

31 Mother's Mother's Mother's Mother Jeanne de Lannoy

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