Jeanne d'Angoulême [SEP] sister
Jeanne d'Angoulême
Jeanne d'Angoulême, Countess of Bar-sur-Seine (c. 1490 – after 1531/1538), "Dame de Givry", "Baroness of Pagny and of Mirebeau", was an illegitimate half-sister of King Francis I of France and princess Marguerite de Navarre. She was created "suo jure" Countess of Bar-sur-Seine in 1522. She was the wife of Jean de Longwy, Seigneur of Givry, Baron of Pagny and of Mirebeau.
Family.
Jeanne was born in Angoulême
. By his wife Marguerite d'Angoulême, sister of Francis I, Henry II had a daughter, Jeanne d'Albret, queen of Navarre, who married Anthony de Bourbon, duke of Vendôme, and became the mother of Henry IV, king of France.
The dukedom of Albret, united to the crown of France by the accession of this prince, was granted to the family of La Tour d'Auvergne (see duc de Bouillon) in 1651, in exchange for Sedan and Raucourt.
To a younger branch of this house belonged