Margaret of Joinville

Margaret of Joinville (French: Marguerite de Joinville, * 1354, † 1418 ) was from 1365 to 1418 mistress of Joinville and Countess of Vaudémont ( German: Widmont, hence Margaret of Widmont ).

Family

Margaret's parents were Henry V, Lord of Joinville and Count of Vaudémont, and Marie of Luxembourg. Her father died when she was only eleven years old.

In 1367 she married John of Chalon (* 1340, † 1373 ), Lord of Montaigu. After his death she married in 1374 Pierre, Count of Geneva. Pierre's brother Robert was elected antipope Clement VII. Pierre died in 1392 in the service of his brother. Both marriages were childless.

1392 Margaret married his third wife Frederick I of Vaudémont (* 1368, † 1415), the younger brother of Duke Charles II and Lorraine and brought inheritance into the marriage.

Their children were:

  • Elisabeth ( * 1397, † 1456 ) ∞ 1412 Philipp I of Nassau -Saarbrücken
  • Antoine ( * 1400, † 1458 ), Count of Vaudémont and Lord of Joinville
  • Margaret, ∞ Thibaud de Blamont

Ancestress of Habsburg -Lorraine

The direct descendants of Margaret and Frederick took over as house Vaudémont 1473 the Duchy of Lorraine. 1528 shared their descendants into a German line, the dukes of Lorraine, and a French line, the Dukes of Guise. At the latter came the reign Joinville. The German line arrived in 1745 by the marriage of Duke Francis Stephen to the heiress of the Habsburgs, Maria Theresa of Austria, on the throne of the Holy Roman Empire and thus founded the House of Habsburg -Lorraine.

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