Anne de Bourbon

Anne de Bourbon ( * 1380, † 1408 in Paris) from the house of Bourbon was the first wife of Duke Louis VII of Bavaria- Ingolstadt and the mother of his son of the same name.

Anne was born in 1380 as the daughter of Count Jean de Bourbon of the Marche and his wife Catherine de Vendôme. Christine de Pizan counted in the Livre de la Cité des Dames to the nine most exemplary women of France. Her younger sister Charlotte later married King Janus of Cyprus. Anne herself first married Jean de Berry, Count of Montpensier and son of the Duke of Berry. After his death, the French queen Isabeau, the sister of Duke Ludwig of Bavaria- Ingolstadt, Anne and Charlotte called to him to the court. On October 1, 1402 married Anne Duke Louis VII of Bavaria- Ingolstadt, the brother of the queen. Your dowry was proud of 130,000 francs, also the yearly pension of her husband has been increased from 5,000 to 12,000 francs.

Ludwig traveled at the beginning of 1403 without them to Bavaria and came only after the birth of his son, as he himself said Ludwig, back to Paris. The little Ludwig was crippled and was later called Louis the hunchback, his younger brother Jean, who was born probably in 1405 or 1406, died early. Duke Ludwig who is a member of the Privy Council, was won after the assassination of the Duke of Orléans in late fall 1407 in political importance, and in 1408 took over the management of the royal household of the Dauphin. Anne died in 1408 at the age of 28 years and was buried in the Paris Jacobin monastery. Her husband married in 1413 their distant relatives Catherine d' Alençon, whom he left behind in 1415 when he returned to Bavaria in France alone.

The initially planned repatriation of mortal remains of Anne and her son Jean to Ingolstadt did not take place only her heart is located in Ingolstadt Liebfrauenmünster.