Marie d'Alençon

Marie d'Alençon was a French noblewoman, a Princess of the Blood, and the wife of Jean 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, nephew of King Philip VI of France, and Marie Chamaillart, Viscountess of Beaumont-au-Maine.
Marie's father was knighted in 1350. At the Battle of Poitiers in 1356, he was taken hostage in exchange for King John II of France, and he did not return home until 1370. On 20 October 1371, he married Marie Chamaillart, by whom he had eight children. Marie was their eldest child.

Pierre d'Alençon
Jean d'Alençon
Marie d'Alençon
Jeanne d'Alençon
Catherine of Alençon and an unnamed daughter. Both children died young.
Marguerite d'Alençon. Nun at Argentan.
Jean, Duke of Alençon. On 26 June 1396, he married Marie of Brittany. They had five children, including his heir, Jean II, Duke of Alençon.

Marie married John VII, Count of Harcourt and of Aumale in Paris on 17 March 1390 shortly before her seventeenth birthday. He was the son of John VI of Harcourt, Count of Harcourt, and Catherine de Bourbon. The marriage produced three children.
Marie died in 1417 about two years after her husband, having distinguished himself at the Battle of Agincourt, was taken prisoner by the victorious English troops, led by King Henry V. John died in 1452.

Jean VIII of Harcourt, Count of Aumale. He was the senior French commander at the battle. By mistress Marguerite de Preullay, he had one illegitimate son, Louis II of Harcourt
Marie of Harcourt, Countess of Aumale. She married, on 12 August 1416, Antoine of Vaudémont, Count of Vaudémont, Sire of Joinville, by whom she had five children including Frederic II of Vaudémont, Count of Vaudemont, Sire of Joinville, who in his turn in 1445, married Yolande de Bar of Anjou, elder sister of Margaret of Anjou, Queen-consort of England.
Jeanne of Harcourt, Countess of Harcourt. She married firstly in 1414, Jean, Seigneur de Rieux et de Rochfort, Baron d'Ancenis. She married secondly in 1434, Bertrand de Dinan, Baron de Chateaubriant, Marshal of Brittany. She had issue.