Jacqueline of Bavaria

Also known as: Iaquelin / Iaqueline of Bauier / Iaquet / Jacqueline of Bavaria, Countess of Holland · Family: France · Role: countess · First appears: Henry V 34

Life events

• 1423 · Humphrey Duke of Gloucester married Jacqueline of Bavaria, despite her existing marriage to John IV, Duke of Brabant.(Henry VI 1)
  • With: Humphrey Duke of Gloucester John IV, Duke of Brabant
  • “Humfrie duke of Glocester, either striken in loue, or vpon some other occasion, maried the ladie Iaquet or Iaquelin, daughter and sole heire to William of Bauier duke of Holland, which was lawfull wife to Iohn duke of Brabant then liuing”
• 1424 · Humphrey Duke of Gloucester married Jacqueline of Bavaria while her marriage to John, Duke of Brabant continued.(Henry VI 4)
  • With: Humphrey Duke of Gloucester John IV, Duke of Brabant
  • “Humfreie duke of Glocester, who had married the ladie Iaquet, or Iaqueline of Bauier, countesse of Heinault, Holland, and Zeland (notwithstanding she was coupled in marriage afore to Iohn duke of Brabant, as yet liuing, and had continued with him a long space)”
• 1424 · The people of Hainault submitted to Humphrey as sovereign through Jacqueline's claim.(Henry VI 4 · 📍 Mons)
  • With: Humphrey Duke of Gloucester
  • “passed now the sea with the said ladie, and went to Mons or Bergen in Heinault, where the more part of the people of that countrie came and submitted themselues vnto him, as to their souereigne lord, in right of his said wife, the ladie Iaquet or Iaqueline”
• c. 1424 · John, Duke of Brabant recovered all towns in Hainault held by Jacqueline.(Henry VI 4 · 📍 Heinault)
  • With: John IV, Duke of Brabant
  • “insomuch that in the end (after the duke of Glocesters returne into England) the duke of Brabant recouered all the towns in Heinault, which the ladie Iaquet or Iaqueline held against him.”

Henry V 34

• with Henry VI (Jacqueline of Bavaria, Countess of Holland was Henry VI's godmother.) “This yeare at Windsore on the daie of saint Nicholas in December, the quéene was deliuered of a sonne named Henrie, whose godfathers were Iohn duke of Bedford, and Henrie bishop of Winchester, and Iaquet, or (as the Frenchmen called hir) Iaqueline of Bauier, countesse of Holland was his godmother.”

Henry VI 1

• married with Humphrey Duke of Gloucester “Humfrie duke of Glocester, either striken in loue, or vpon some other occasion, maried the ladie Iaquet or Iaquelin”
• parent: William II, Duke of Bavaria “the ladie Iaquet or Iaquelin, daughter and sole heire to William of Bauier duke of Holland”
• married with John IV, Duke of Brabant “which was lawfull wife to Iohn duke of Brabant then liuing”

Henry VI 4

• married with Humphrey Duke of Gloucester “Humfreie duke of Glocester, who had married the ladie Iaquet, or Iaqueline of Bauier, countesse of Heinault, Holland, and Zeland (notwithstanding she was coupled in marriage afore to Iohn duke of Brabant, as yet liuing, and had continued with him a long space) passed now the sea with the said ladie,”
• married with John IV, Duke of Brabant “notwithstanding she was coupled in marriage afore to Iohn duke of Brabant, as yet liuing, and had continued with him a long space”
• enemies with John IV, Duke of Brabant “the duke of Brabant recouered all the towns in Heinault, which the ladie Iaquet or Iaqueline held against him”

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Extracted from the original text of Holinshed's Chronicles — the reigns Shakespeare dramatized. Made with Rho MD.