Jeanne de Laval

Jeanne de Laval (* 1433 in Auray, † 1498) is the daughter of Guy XIV de Laval and Isabelle de Bretagne. Her brothers are Guy XV. de Laval and Pierre de Laval, which should be in 1473 Archbishop of Reims. She was married on September 10, 1454 in Angers with the 24 -year-older and widowed René I of Anjou.

The marriage contract was signed on September 3, 1454, the marriage was contracted on 10 September in Saint -Nicolas monastery. The couple lived for three years in various castles in the Immersed in Angers and Saumur, before it moved to Provence in 1457. 1462 Jeanne and returned back to René of Anjou in 1469 and settled permanently in the Provence down. The marriage remained childless.

Both in Aix -en- Provence and in Angers led Jeanne and Rene an embossed art and science court. Le poème Regnauld et Jeanneton was a poem written René in her honor. Nicolas Froment painted the pair for a triptych of the cathedral of Aix -en- Provence. In addition, it is shown with René on a tableau, as they listen to a sermon of Mary Magdalene. The panel is located in the Musée national du Moyen Âge in the Hôtel Cluny in Paris. The Cabinet of médailles the Bibliothèque nationale de France has two medals from 1462 that depict them and René. A miniature shows in the circle of her ladies in the French version of the manuscript Pèlerinage de la vie humaine ( Bibliothèque de l' Arsenal). Monuments in their honor are in Beaufort ( 1842), Les Rosiers- sur- Loire ( 1875) and Tarascon.

René died in 1480, leaving behind his wife enormous income in Anjou, Provence and Barrois. She kept the usufruct on the Beaufort County and the rule Mirebeau (which they exchanged for the barony Aubagne), and resided alternately in Saumur and at her castle in Beaufort -en- Vallée, where she died in 1498. She was buried in the Minoritenkirche in Angers.