Bonne of Armagnac

Duchess of Orléans

Bonne of Armagnac

Duchess of Orléans

Marriage of Charles and Bonne at the Chateau de Dourdan – from the Très Riches Heures du duc de Berry

Born| 19 February 1399
Lavardens
Died| 1430–35
Castelnau-de-Montmiral
Spouse| Charles, Duke of Orléans (m. 1410)
House| Armagnac
Father| Bernard VII, Count of Armagnac
Mother| Bonne of Berry

Bonne of Armagnac (19 February 1399 – 1430/35) was the eldest daughter of Bernard VII, Count of Armagnac and Constable of France, and his wife Bonne of Berry.

## Marriage[edit]

On 15 April 1410 at the age of 11, she married Charles, Duke of Orléans (left an orphan by his father Louis's assassination in 1407).[1] This marriage made the constable not only Charles's father-in-law but also his natural defender. The Orléans party, left without a leader by Louis's death, thus became the Armagnac party, the name it held up to the treaty of Arras in 1435.[1]

Following the French defeat at the Battle of Agincourt on 25 October 1415, Charles was taken prisoner by the English. Bonne had not borne any children prior to his imprisonment. She died sometime between 1430 and 1435 while her husband was still in captivity.

## In literature and art[edit]

Bonne appears in the critically acclaimed historical novel Het woud der verwachting (1949) by Hella Haasse, (translated into English in 1989 under the title "In a Dark Wood Wandering"). The novel portrays the life of Bonne's husband Charles.

Charles and Bonne's marriage at the Chateau de Dourdan may be depicted in the elaborate illuminated manuscript entitled Très Riches Heures du duc de Berry (Very Rich Hours of the Duke of Berry) in the illustration for April.

## Ancestry[edit]

Ancestors of Bonne of Armagnac

|  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | 16\. Bernard VI of Armagnac, Count of Armagnac (=28)

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| 8\. John I of Armagnac, Count of Armagnac (=14)|

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| 17\. Cecile de Rodez (=29)

| 4\. John II of Armagnac, Count of Armagnac|

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| 18\. Jean de Clermont, Count of St. Charolais (=30)

| 9\. Beatrice de Clermont, Dame de Charolais (=15)|

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| 19\. Jeanne d'Argies (=31)

| 2\. Bernard VII of Armagnac, Count of Charolais, Count of Armagnac|

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| 20\. Helie IX Talairand, Count of Périgord

| 10\. Roger-Bernard I, Count of Périgord|

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| 21\. Brunissende de Foix

| 5\. Jeanne de Périgord|

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| 22\. Bouchard VI of Vendôme

| 11\. Eléonore de Vendôme|

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| 23\. Alix of Brittany

| 1\. Bonne of Armagnac|
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| 24\. Philip VI of France

| 12\. John II of France|

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| 25\. Jeanne of Burgundy

| 6\. John, Duke of Berry|

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| 26\. John the Blind of Luxembourg

| 13\. Bonne of Luxembourg|

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| 27\. Elisabeth of Bohemia

| 3\. Bonne de Berry|

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| 28\. Bernard VI of Armagnac, Count of Armagnac (=16)

| 14\. John I of Armagnac, Count of Armagnac (=8)|

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| 29\. Cecile de Rodez (=17)

| 7\. Jeanne of Armagnac|

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| 30\. Jean de Clermont, Count of St. Charolais (=18)

| 15\. Beatrice of Clermont, Dame de Charolais (=9)|

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| 31\. Jeanne d'Argies (=19)

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## References[edit]

1. ^ a b Neillands, p. 196.

## Sources[edit]

* Neillands, Robin (2001). The Hundred Years War. London: Routledge. ISBN 0-415-26131-7.

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