Jacqueline de Hainaut

Jacqueline of Bavaria (1401 † 1436), countess of Hainaut, of Holland, of Zealand and rams Plank.

Girl of the duke Guillaume IV of Bavaria, count de Hainaut, from Holland, from Zealand and Plank and Marguerite of Burgundy, girl of Philippe Bold the, duke of Burgundy, Jacqueline was born with Quesnoy the July 15th 1401. Promised on June 29th 1406, been engaged in 1412, it marries in $the Hague on November 18th 1415, the dolphin of France, Jean de Touraine (1398 † 1417), wire of Charles VI, king de France and of Isabeau of Bavaria.

Become widowed on April 4th 1417, but also countess of Hainaut, of Holland, of Zealand and lady of Plank, it remarie on April 10th 1418 in $the Hague with his/her first cousin, the duke Jean IV of the Brabant, wire of the duke Antoine of the Brabant, brother of his Marguerite mother of Burgundy. Jacqueline of Bavaria tried to make cancel their marriage for parental proximity following the agreement given by her husband to her paternal uncle, Jean III of Bavaria, prince-bishop elected of Liege which wanted to despoil it its Dutch possessions.

Weary hesitations vaticanes in connection with the legitimacy of its second marriage and seeking a protection out of the bosom of Burgundian, Jacqueline of Bavaria marries in 1423 the duke Humphrey de Gloucester, wire of the king Henri IV of England and brother of the duke of Bedfort, regent of France for his nephew Henri VI of England. However the preceding marriage not being definitively cancelled, this one was null and void.

Since 1427, Jacqueline of Bavaria, last “autonomous” countess is forced, by stage, to give the county of Hainaut and her other possessions between the hands of her cousin Philippe the Good, duke of Burgundy. Joined together with the other Burgundian possessions of North, (Flanders, Namur, Luxembourg), they will form from now on the Netherlands.

After a last marital adventure with its geôlier Zélandais (for the account of Philippe the Good) Frank van Borselen, it dies (of tuberculosis) in Teilingen (in the north of $the Hague, not far from Keukenhof) the October 8th 1436. She would be buried with $the Hague.

External bond

http://jacquelinedebaviere.150m.com

Random links: