Marie d'Alençon [SEP] date of death
Marie d'Alençon
Marie d'Alençon (29 March 1373 – 1417) was a French noblewoman, a Princess of the Blood, and the wife of John VII of Harcourt, Count of Harcourt and of Aumale, Viscount of Châtellerault, Baron of Elbeuf, of Mézières, of Lillebone, of La Saussaye.
Family.
Marie was born on 29 March 1373, at the Chateau d'Essay, Orne, France, the daughter of Pierre II, Count of Alençon (1340 – 20 September 1404) and Marie Chamaillart, Viscountess of
seat of the Senate of France. The palace had been given to her father on the death of his mother, Marie de' Medici in 1642. Élisabeth was known by her first name, "Élisabeth", but she always signed "Isabelle". One of five children, she was not raised with her siblings but in a convent, because she was destined to become abbess of Remiremont and was styled as such.
Life Marriage.
Known as "Mademoiselle d'Alençon" until her marriage, "Isabelle" (Élisabeth