Marie of Cleves, Duchess of Orléans

Marie of Cleves (19 September 1426 23 August 1487) was the third wife of Charles, Duke of Orléans. She was born a German princess, the last child of Adolph I, Duke of Cleves and his second wife, Mary of Burgundy.

Marie of Cleves
Duchess of Orléans
Marie of Cleves (or Anne of Cyprus)
Born19 September 1426
Died23 August 1487(1487-08-23) (aged 60)
Chaunay
Burial
Spouse
(m. 1440; died 1465)
IssueMarie, Viscountess of Narbonne
Louis XII of France
Anne, Abbess of Fontevraud
HouseLa Marck
FatherAdolph I, Duke of Cleves
MotherMary of Burgundy

Marie was a patron of letters and commissioned many works; she was also an active poet herself, producing ballads and other verses. After the Duke's death she was secretly remarried in 1480 to one of her gentlemen of the chamber, the Artesian "Sieur de Rabodanges", who was some years her junior. She died in Chaunay.

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