Catherine of Vendôme

Catherine of Vendôme
Countess of la Marche
Catherine and John I
Spouse(s)	John I, Count of La Marche
Issue James II, Count of La Marche Isabelle of La Marche Louis, Count of Vendôme John, Lord of Carency Anne, Countess of Montpensier Marie, Lady of Croix Charlotte, Queen of Cyprus
Father	John VI of Vendôme
Mother	Jeanne of Ponthieu
Born	1354
Died	1412

Catherine de Vendôme (1354 – 1 April 1412), countess of Vendôme and of Castres (1372–1403) was a French noblewoman of the House of Montoire. She was the daughter of John VI of Vendôme and Jeanne of Ponthieu.

Marriage

In 1364 she married John I, Count of La Marche and they had:

• James II, Count of La Marche and Castres (1370–1438)
• Isabelle (born 1373), a nun at Poissy
• Louis, Count of Vendôme (1376–1446)
• John, Lord of Carency (1378–1457), married c. 1416 Catherine, daughter of Philip of Artois, Count of Eu, without issue, married in 1420 at Le Mans, his mistress Jeanne de Vendômois, with whom he had issue
• Anne (c. 1380 – September 1408, Paris), married in 1401 John of Berry, Count of Montpensier (d. 1401), married in Paris in 1402 Louis VII, Duke of Bavaria
• Marie (1386 – aft. 11 September 1463), Lady of Brehencourt, married Jean de Baynes, Lord of Croix
• Charlotte (1388 – 15 January 1422), married in 1411 at Nicosia King Janus of Cyprus

She inherited Vendôme on the death of her niece Jeanne and administered it jointly with her husband, then (after his death) with her second son Louis until 1403.

Ancestry

Family of Catherine of Vendôme

16. Bouchard V de Vendôme               8. Jean V de Vendôme                       17. Marie de Roye               4. Bouchard VI de Vendôme, Count of Vendôme                             18. Philippe II de Montfort-L'Amaury               9. Eleanore de Montfort-L'Amaury                       19. Jeanne de Levis               2. John VI of Vendôme                                   20. John II, Duke of Brittany               10. Arthur II, Duke of Brittany                       21. Beatrice of England               5. Alix of Brittany                             22. Robert IV of Dreux               11. Yolande de Dreux                       23. Beatrice de Montfort, Countess of Montfort-l'Amaury               1. Catherine of Vendôme                                         24. Ferdinand of Castile, Count of Aumale               12. Jean I de Ponthieu, Count of Aumale                       25. Laure de Montfort               6. Jean II de Ponthieu, Count of Aumale                             26. Amaury de Meullent, Seigneur de La Queue               13. Ide de Meullent                       27. Marguerite de Beaumont-le-Roger               3. Jeanne de Pontieu                                   28. Robert II of Artois               14. Philip of Artois                       29. Amice de Courtenay               7. Catherine d'Artois                             30. John II, Duke of Brittany               15. Blanche de Dreux                       31. Beatrice of England

References

• Broad, Jacqueline and Karen Green, Virtue, liberty, and toleration: political ideas of European women, 1400-1800, (Springer, 2007)