Yolande, Duchess of Lorraine
Jolanda (French and Yolande d'Anjou, born November 2, 1428 Nancy, † March 23, 1483 there ) was (from 1473 ) Duchess of Lorraine ( 1480 ) and Bar (from 1481 ) Titularkönigin of Jerusalem. She was the daughter of René I, Duke of Bar, Count of Provence and Forcalquier, titular King of Jerusalem etc., and Isabella, Duchess of Lorraine.
She married in 1445 in Nancy, her cousin Frederick II of Vaudémont (* 1420, † 1470 ), as part of the peace and marriage treaty of 1433 between her and his father, Anton von Vaudémont with which the succession was settled in Lorraine. Their children were, among others:
- René II, † 1508 1473 Duke of Lorraine; ∞ I Jeanne d' Harcourt, † 1488, Countess of Tancarville, daughter of Count Guillaume; ∞ II Philippa of funds, † 1547 daughter of Adolf of Egmond, Duke of Gelre - descendants were the Dukes of Lorraine from 1473, from which in 1736 the House of Habsburg -Lorraine emerged, and the house of Guise
- Johanna ( Jeanne ) † 1480; ∞ Charles IV Duke of Anjou, Duke of Maine, † 1481 ( Junior House of Anjou )
- Margaret ( Marguerite ) † 1521 Rene ∞, † 1492, Duke of Alençon ( House of Valois - Alençon )
- Iolanta ( Yolande ) † 1500; ∞ Wilhelm II of Mean, Landgrave of Hesse, † 1509
In 1473, she inherited with the death of her nephew Nicholas I the Duchy of Lorraine (which was certainly not foreseeable at their wedding at the time ). She gave the duchy immediately to her son René II on. The same they did in 1480, when she inherited the Duchy of Bar from her father. In 1481 she inherited from her cousin, Count Charles V of Maine claim to the kingdoms of Naples and Jerusalem were, vereitergeführt also by their descendants, including the Hapsburg-Lorraine.
Jolande of Anjou survived her husband by twelve years. She died in 1483 at the age of 54 years, Nancy. My brother, Bishop Henry of Metz, left her and Ferry II after 1495 by Jacques Bachot, one of the most important sculptors of the late Gothic Champagne and Lorraine, make a magnificent tomb for the Collegiate Church of St. Laurent in Joinville (Haute- Marne), the was destroyed during the Revolution.
In poetry, literature, opera and film
The historical figure of Yolande became the model for the fictional drama by Henrik Hertz: King René's daughter, Yolande fiktiverweise here is up to her 16th birthday presented as a sort of Sleeping Beauty as their Sehunvermögens ignorant educated blind - a metaphorical image for the limited human, meaningful mediated knowledge of the world but is transcended by Yolandes character and their ability to love and finally In addition, too, so helps her to the light of sight to sight. Henrik Hertz literarisation of the historic fabric inspired Tchaikovsky to his opera Iolanthe, Op 69 - opera in one act by Hertz (1891, libretto by M. Tchaikovsky ) Premiere: St. Petersburg 1892 Furthermore, inspired the shape and its design by Hertz. a fairytale the light of love.