Anne of France

Anne of France known as Anne de Beaujeu (April 1461 with Genappe - November 14th 1522 with Saint-Vincent-with-Salers, with the Castle of Chantarelle) was a princess and regent.

Youth

Oldest daughter of Louis XI and Charlotte of Savoy, still infant, it is promised in marriage to the young person Nicolas of Anjou, marquis de Pont-à-Mousson and grandson of Rene of Anjou. His/her father then allotted the to them Viscount of Thouars. Ram of Gien. Finally it will be Pierre de Beaujeu, of more than twenty years its elder, lord de Beaujeu and younger brother of the duke Jean II of Bourbon, which she will marry. It is then 35 years old, and becomes duke of Bourbon. His/her father declares it the least insane woman of France , and wishes on his bed of death that it takes regency during the minority of Charles VIII, his brother.

Regency

With died of Louis XI in 1483, Charles VIII has thirteen years and half, the royal majority being fixed then at fourteen years. Anne de Beaujeu exerts the Régence of 1483 to 1491 with her husband. Contrary to waitings of the princes of the kingdom, it contains the nobility, firmly maintains against the duke of Orleans the royal authority and the unit of the kingdom by putting a term at the insane Guerre in 1488 with Saint-Aubin-of-Cormier the.

These disputes had started as of the death of Louis XI: she convenes the General states then, with Tours to avoid to them the pressure of Paris. To reconcile large kingdom, it sacrifices two advisers of its father, Jean Doyat and Olivier the Deer.

Consequence of the insane Guerre , it Marie her brother Charles VIII with Anne of Brittany, which completes the territorial unification accomplished by Louis XI by preparing the fastening of the duchy of Brittany to the Crown.

Duchess of Bourbon

With died of the duke Jean de Bourbon in 1488, it negotiates the Duché of Bourbon for her husband. She holds with most sumptuous Moulins one of the courses of the kingdom.

Of its marriage with Pierre II of Beaujeu, it had:

Charles, count de Clermont (1476 † 1498)
Suzanne (1491 † 1521), married to Charles III of Bourbon (1490-1527)

Works

After the death of his/her husband, Anne of France written Lesson with my daughter (Suzanne was 12 years old), important source on the education of the young girls of the aristocracy of the time. It also publishes Histoire of the head office of Brest , literary work whose action proceeds during the Guerre One hundred Year old, which gives in example the acts of a woman at the time of a critical situation.

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