List of consorts of Maine

Countess of Maine

First Creation

Rorgonid dynasty

Picture Name Father Birth Marriage Became Countess Ceased to be Countess Death Spouse
Adeltrude - - Gauzlin I
Bilichild - - Rorgon I
Rothild Charles the Bald
(Carolingian)		 871 890 - 928/29 Roger

Hugonid dynasty

Picture Name Father Birth Marriage Became Countess Ceased to be Countess Death Spouse
Bertha of Blois Odo II, Count of Blois
(Blois)		 - after 14 April 1046 26 March 1051
husband's death		 11/13 April 1085 Hugh IV

House of Este

Picture Name Father Birth Marriage Became Countess Ceased to be Countess Death Spouse
Eria of Hauteville Robert Guiscard
(Hauteville)		 - 1078 -
repudiated		 - Hugh V

House of Baugency

Picture Name Father Birth Marriage Became Countess Ceased to be Countess Death Spouse
Matilda of Château-du-Loir Gervais, Lord of Château-du-Loir) - - 1093
husband's accession		 10/25 March 1099 Elias I
In 1109, says Orderic Vitalis, Elias remarried to Agnes, the daughter of 'William of Poitou' and relict of Alfonso VI of Castile. This is perhaps confused, as the name and parentage match that of Alfonso's first wife, but she last appears thirty years earlier. It has been suggested that the true bride was Alfonso's widow Beatrice.

House of Plantagenet

Picture Name Father Birth Marriage Became Countess Ceased to be Countess Death Spouse
Matilda of England Henry I of England
(Normandy)		 7 February 1101 17 June 1128 7 September 1151
husband's death		 10 September 1167 Geoffrey
Philippa of Perche Rotrou III, Count of Perche
(Châteaudun)		 It is possible but unlikely that his father left him the county of Maine; his elder brother, Geoffrey Plantagenet was ruler of Anjou, Maine and the Touraine. Elias revolted in 1145, but was captured and imprisoned indefinitely by his brother. John of Marmoutier, writing in the 1170s, states that Geoffrey released Elias, but that he died from a fever contracted during his incarceration.[1] Few medieval sources name Elias as count of Maine. Elias II
Eleanor, Duchess of Aquitaine William X, Duke of Aquitaine
(Ramnulfid)		 1122 18 May 1152 6 July 1189
husband's death		 1 April 1204 Henry I
Margaret of France Louis VII of France
(Capet)		 November 1157 2 November 1160 June 1170
husband's accession		 11 June 1183
husband's death		 August/September 1197 Henry II
Berengaria of Navarre Sancho VI of Navarre
(Jiménez)		 between 1165 and 1170 12 May 1191 6 April 1199
husband's death		 23 December 1230 Richard I
Isabella of Angoulême Aymer Taillefer, Count of Angoulême
(Taillefer)		 1188 24 August 1200 1203
France annexed Maine		 31 May 1246 John

Second creation

Capetian House of Anjou

Picture Name Father Birth Marriage Became Countess Ceased to be Countess Death Spouse
Beatrice of Provence Raymond Berenguer IV of Provence
(Barcelona)		 1234 31 January 1246 1247
husband's ascension		 23 September 1267 Charles I
Margaret of Burgundy Eudes of Burgundy, Count of Nevers and Auxerre
(Burgundy)		 1250 18 November 1268 7 January 1285
husband's death		 4 September 1308
Maria of Hungary Stephen V of Hungary
(Árpád)		 1257 May/June 1270 7 January 1285
husband's ascension		 1290
husband's death		 25 March 1323 Charles II

Third creation

House of Valois

Picture Name Father Birth Marriage Became Countess Ceased to be Countess Death Spouse
Joan the Lame Robert II, Duke of Burgundy
(Burgundy)		 24 June 1293 July 1313 1 April 1328
became Queen of France		 12 September 1348 Philip I

Fourth creation

House of Valois

Picture Name Father Birth Marriage Became Countess Ceased to be Countess Death Spouse
Bonne of Bohemia John of Bohemia
(Luxembourg)		 20 May 1315 6 August 1332 11 September 1349 John II
Joan I, Countess of Auvergne William XII, Count of Auvergne
(Auvergne)		 8 May 1326 13 February 1349 22 August 1350
became Queen of France		 29 September 1360

Fifth creation

House of Valois-Anjou

Picture Name Father Birth Marriage Became Countess Ceased to be Countess Death Spouse
Marie of Blois-Châtillon Charles of Blois-Châtillon, Duke of Brittany
(Châtillon)		 1343/5 9 July 1360 20 September 1384
husband's death		 12 November 1404 Louis I
Yolande of Aragon John I of Aragon
(Barcelona)		 11 August 1384 2 December 1400 29 April 1417
husband's death		 14 November 1442 Louis II
Margaret of Savoy Amadeus VIII, Duke of Savoy
(Savoy)		 1410s or 7 August 1420 1424/31 August 1432 12 November 1434
husband's death		 30 September 1479 Louis III
Isabella, Duchess of Lorraine Charles II, Duke of Lorraine
(Lorraine)		 c. 1400 24 October 1420 12 November 1434
husband's ascension		 1448
husband gives title to his brother		 28 February 1453 René
Isabelle of Luxembourg Peter of Luxembourg, Count of Saint-Pol
(Luxembourg)		 - May 1444 7 April 1445
husband adopts title
1448
husband receives county		 10 July 1480
husband's death		 1472, or after Charles IV
Jeanne de Lorraine Frederick II of Vaudémont
(Lorraine)		 1458 21 January 1474 10 July 1480
husband's ascension		 25 January 1480 Charles IV

Sixth Creation

House of Lorraine

Picture Name Father Birth Marriage Became Countess Ceased to be Countess Death Spouse
Henriette of Savoy, Marquess of Villars Onorato II di Savoia 1541 6 August 1576 3 October 1611
husband's death		 14 November 1611 Charles, Duke of Mayenne
Marie Henriette Gonzaga Louis Gonzaga, Duke of Nevers
(Gonzaga)		 3 September 1571 February 1599 3 October 1611
husband's accession		 3 August 1614 Henri, Duke of Mayenne

Duchess of Maine

House of Bourbon-Maine, 1673–1736

Picture Name Father Birth Marriage Became Duchess Ceased to be Duchess Death Spouse
Louise Bénédicte de Bourbon Henri Jules, Prince of Condé
(Bourbon-Condé)		 8 November 1676 19 May 1692 14 May 1736
husband's death		 23 January 1753 Louis-Auguste de Bourbon

See also

Sources

  1. ↑ John of Marmoutier, Historia Gaufredi ducis Normannorum et comitis Andegavorum, in Chroniques des comtes d'Anjou et des seigneurs d'Amboise, ed. L. Halphen & R. Poupardin (Paris, 1913), pp.170-231: 207.
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