Frederick II, Count of Vaudémont
Frederick II, in France called Ferry II (c. 1428; † August 31, 1470 in Joinville ) was Count of Vaudémont and Lord of Joinville. He was the son of Antoine de Vaudémont and Marie d' Harcourt, Countess of Aumale and Baroness of Elbeuf. To underline his claims to the Duchy of Lorraine, he is also Friedrich VI. of Lorraine and Ferry VI. de Lorraine called.
He married in 1445 in Nancy Jolande of Anjou, daughter of René I, Duke of Bar, Count of Provence and Forcalquier, etc., and Isabella, Duchess of Lorraine. The marriage was part of a 1433 agreement between their fathers marriage contract, by which the succession disputes were settled in Lorraine.
Their children were, among others:
- René II, † 1508 1473 Duke of Lorraine; ∞ 1) Jeanne d' Harcourt, Countess of Tancarville, daughter of Count Guillaume; ∞ 2) Philippa of funds, daughter of Adolf of Egmond, Duke of Gelre; Descendants were the Dukes of Lorraine from 1473, from which in 1736 emerged the House of Habsburg - Lorraine, and the House of Guise
- Nicolas, † 1476, Seigneur de Joinville et de Bauffremont,
- Jeanne, † 1480; ∞ Charles IV Duke of Anjou, Duke of Maine, † 1481 ( Junior House of Anjou )
- Marguerite, † 1521, René ∞, † 1492, Duke of Alençon ( House of Valois - Alençon )
- Yolande, † 1500, William II ∞ the Middle, Landgrave of Hesse, † 1509
1456 transferred René I. him the administration of the Duchy of Bar, and gave him in 1459 while he undertook his second attempt to win over the Kingdom, the title of lieutenant-general of Sicily. He died in 1470 in Joinville, three years before his wife fell to the Duchy of Lorraine.
His brother, Bishop Henry of Metz gave him and his wife Jolanda after 1495 by Jacques Bachot, one of the most important sculptors of the late Gothic Champagne and Lorraine, make a magnificent tomb for the family grave lay in the Collegiate Church of Joinville, which was destroyed during the Revolution.