Marie de Luxembourg
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- For the French queen, see Marie de Luxembourg, Queen of France
Marie de Luxembourg (1472-April 1, 1547) was a French noblewoman.
She married Jacques de Savoie, Count of Romont, and brought rich estates to her second husband, François, Count of Vendôme, when they were married in 1487, including the counties of Saint Pol and Soissons in Picardy.
At François's death in 1495, she became regent of Vendôme for her minor son Charles de Bourbon. The period of her regency was the most brilliant in the history of Vendôme. She enlarged the Collégiale Saint Georges, rebuilt the Church of Saint Martin, and donated the Porte Saint Georges-aux-Bourgeois-de-Vendôme to become the mairie.
They had six children:
- Charles de Bourbon (1490-1527), Duke of Vendôme
- Jacques (1490-1491)
- François (1491-1545), Count of Saint Pol and of Chaumont, Duke of Estouteville
- Louis (1493-1557), Cardinal de Bourbon, Archbishop of Sens
- Antoinette de Bourbon (1493-1583), married Claude, Duke of Guise
- Louise (1495-1575), Abbess of Fontevraud
She died in Issoudun in Picardy at the age of 75.
