Marie of Cleves
Also known as: ladie Marie of Cleue · Family: Cleves · Role: noblewoman · First appears: Henry VI 29
Life events
- 1440 · Charles, Duke of Orléans, married Marie of Cleves as promised.(Henry VI 29 · 📍 saint Omers)
- With: Charles, Duke of Orléans
- “This duke being now deliuered, and speaking better English than French, after his arriuall in France, repaired to the duke of Burgognie, and according to his promise and conuention, maried the ladie Marie of Cleue, in the towne of saint Omers”
Henry VI 29
- elder kin: Philip the Good, Duke of Burgundy “intending the aduancement of his néece, the ladie Marie, daughter to Adolfe duke of Cleue”
- parent: Adolf, Duke of Cleves “the ladie Marie, daughter to Adolfe duke of Cleue”
- engaged with Charles, Duke of Orléans “contriued waies to haue the said duke of Orleance set at libertie, vpon promise by him made to take the said ladie Marie vnto wife.”
- married with Charles, Duke of Orléans “This duke being now deliuered, and speaking better English than French, after his arriuall in France, repaired to the duke of Burgognie, and according to his promise and conuention, maried the ladie Marie of Cleue, in the towne of saint Omers”
- child: Louis XII “on whome he begat a sonne, which after was French king, and called Lewes the twelfe.”
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Extracted from the original text of Holinshed's Chronicles — the reigns Shakespeare dramatized. Made with Rho MD.