Antoine, Count of Vaudémont

Antoine de Vaudémont (* 1400, † March 22, 1458 ) was Count of Vaudémont and Lord of Joinville from 1418 to 1458, he was by his marriage 1452-1458 Count of Aumale and Baron of Elbeuf. . He was the son of Frederick I of Vaudémont and Marguerite de Joinville.

Life

Antoine married on August 12, 1416 Marie, Countess of Harcourt and Aumale and Baroness of Elbeuf, daughter of Count Jean VII, and Marie d' Alençon. Their children were:

• Frederick ( Ferry ) II (* 1428, † 1470 ), Count of Vaudémont and Lord of Joinville,
• Johann (Jean ) VIII († 1473 ), Count of Aumale and Baron of Elbeuf,
• Henry ( Henri ) ( † 1505), Bishop of Therouanne ( 1447-1484 ), then Bishop of Metz ( 1484-1505 ),
• Marie ( † 1455 ) ∞ 1450 Alain IX. († 1462 ), Vicomte de Rohan,
• Margaret ( Marguerite ) ( † after 1477 ) ∞ 1432 Antoine I de Croy († 1475 ).

Antoine de Vaudémont was the nephew of Charles II, Duke of Lorraine, whose successor he wanted to be, since he had no sons. However, Charles II decreed that his daughter Isabella ( * 1400, † 1453), who in 1420 married to René I of Anjou, Duke of Bar, was to inherit the duchy, which was challenged by Antoine, which is why Karl 1425 formally it disinherited. However, Charles attacks on Antoine's possession ran into emptiness, as Antoine had searched with Philip the Good, Duke of Burgundy, a powerful ally. After the occurrence of the inheritance 1431 Antoine took the fight to the duchy again, and on July 2, 1431, he succeeded in the Battle of Bulgnéville to capture René.

René and Antoine agreed on October 10, 1432 on Philip to call the good as a referee, but brought its mediation only an agreement concluded (Brussels February 13, 1433 ), among others, a later marriage between children of the counterparty, Jolande of Lorraine ( * 1428 ) and Frederick II of Vaudémont (c. 1428 ) which provided. But the Emperor Sigismund enfeoffed in 1434 with René Lorraine, after Antoine again turned to the burgundy without it ultimately in the decision could still change. On March 27, 1441 Antoine finally renounced the Treaty of Reims on his claim to Lorraine; for the independence of his county Vaudémont was recognized and his son Frederick II engaged to Jolanda. Their wedding took place in 1445 in Nancy. Antoine's grandson René II was so in 1473 Duke of Lorraine.