The Bastards of Mezieres
First researched by Charles Said Vassallo, from the archives of the Late Baron di
Bauvso,
The original research carried out by my Great Grand Father in the Early 1920's,
though never published.
Prince
Louis of France, Duc d'Anjou et de Touraine, etc.,
was adopted by Queen Joanna I of Naples and became
titular King of Naples, Sicily & Jerusalem, Cte de
Provence, etc.; his descendants battled with the Aragonese over the Neapolitan
and Sicilian crowns for decades; b.Chateau-du-Bois-de-Vincennes 1339, d.Biselia
1384, bur Angers; m.1630 Marie, Cts de Blois et de Guise (b.1343, d.Angers 1404,
bur there) dau.of Charles de Chatillon-Blois, some-time Duc de Bretagne. Louis
left issue:
1. Louis II d'Anjou, King of Naples,
(r 1377-1417), married to Princess Yolanda of Aragon, with issue.
1.1. Louis III, Duc d'Anjou, titular King of Naples, etc; adopted by Queen Joanna II of Naples; b.1403, d.Cosenza 1434, bur there; m.1432 Margaret (b.Morges 1416, d.Stuttgart 1479, bur there) dau.of Duke Amadeus VIII of Savoy
1.2. Rene d'Anjou, King of Sicily and Naples, (r 1435-42), married to Isabella de Lorraine, with issue.
1.2.1.Duke Jean II of Lorraine, titular
King of Naples, etc Duca di Calabria, b.Nancy 1425,
d.Barcelona 1470, bur there; m.1444 Marie (d.1448) dau.of Duc Charles I de
Bourbon
1.2.1.1.Rene, b.1446, d.young
1.2.1.2.Nicolas, Duc de Lorraine,
b.Nancy 1448, d.there 1473, bur there
1.2.1.2.1.[illegitimate]Marguerite batarde d'Anjou; m.Jean IV de Chabannes, Cte
de Dammartin (d.1503)
1.2.1.3.Isabelle, b.1445, d.young
1.2.1.4.Marie, b.1447, d.young
1.2.1.5.[illegitimate]Jean, batard de Calabrie, Cte de Briey, d.1504; m.Nancy
St.Georges
1.2.1.5.1.[illegitimate]Ferry batard de Calabrie
1.2.1.6.[illegitimate]Albert batard de Calabrie, sn d'Essey
1.2.1.6.1.Marie de Calabrie; m.Claude de Riviere (d.1518)
1.2.1.7.[illegitimate]a dau., m.Jean d'Ecosse
1.2.1.8.[illegitimate]Jeanne batarde de Calabrie, dit d'Abancourt; m.Achille
batard de
Beauveu
1.2.1.9.[illegitimate]Marguerite batarde de Calabrie
1.2.2.Rene, b.1426
1.2.3.Louis, Marquis de Pont-a-Mousson, b.Nancy 1427, d.after 1444
1.2.4.Nicolas, Duc de Bar, b.Nancy 1428, d.young
1.2.5.Charles, Cte de Guise (1431-1432)
1.2.6.Isabelle, d.young
1.2.7.Yolande, Dss of Lorraine, titular Queen of Sicily
and Jerusalem, b.Nancy 1428, d.1483, bur Joinville;
m.Nancy 1445 Frederic de Lorraine, Cte de Vaudemont (d.1470)
1.2.8.Marguerite, b.Nancy 1429, d.Chateau La Vignolle 1482, bur Angers; m. Nancy
1445 King Henry VI of England (d.1472)
1.2.9.Louise, b.1436, d.young
1.2.10.Anne, b.1437, d.young
1.2.11.[illegitimate]Jean batard d'Anjou, Ms de Pont-a- Mousson, d.1536; m.1500
Marguerite de Glandeves-Faucon
1.2.11.1.Catherine Marguerite d'Anjou, Mse de Pont-a-Mousson, d.1589;
m.Marseille 1525 Francois de Forbin(d.1572)
1.2.11.2.Francoise d'Anjou
1.2.11.3.Blanche d'Anjou, a nun at Pont-a-Mousson
1.2.12.[illegitimate]Jeanne Blanche batarde d'Anjou, Dame de Mirebeau, d.1470;
m.Paris
1467 Bertrand de Beauvau (d.1474)
1.2.13.[illegitimate]Madeleine datarde d'Anjou, Cts de Montferrand (d.after
1515); m.Tours 1496 Louis Jean, sn de Bellenave
1.3. Prince Charles d'Anjou, Comte de Maine, b.Chateau de Montils- lez-Tours 1414, d.Neufvy-en-Touraine 1472, bur Le Mans; m.1st 1434 Cobella Ruffo, Cts di Montalto e di Corigliano (d.1442); m.2d 1443 Isabelle, Cts de Guise (d.1472) dau.of Pierre de Luxembourg, Cte de St-Pol
1.3.1.Charles IV, Duc d'Anjou et de
Maine, titular King of Naples, etc, b.1436,
d.Marseille 1481, bur Aix-en-Provence; m.Troyes 1474 Jeanne (b.1458, d.Aix-en-
Provence 1480, bur there) dau.of Frederic de Lorraine, Cte de Vaudemont
1.3.2.Louise, b.1445, d.Carlat 1477; m.Poitiers 1462 Jacques, Cte d'Armagnac,
Duc de Nemours, d.1477
1.3.3.[illegitimate] Louis d'Anjou, legitimized 1468,
Baron de Mezieres; m.1474 Anne de La Tremoille
1.3.3.1.Louis d'Anjou, b.Mezieres 1482, d.young
1.3.3.2.Rene d'Anjou, Baron de Mezieres,
b.Mezieres 1483, d.Avignon 1521; m.1515 Antoinette de Chabannes (d.1527) dau.of
Jean, Cte de Dammartin
1.3.3.2.1.Louis d'Anjou, Abbot of Pontlevoy
1.3.3.2.2.Nicolas, Marquis de Mezieres,
b.St-Fargeau 1518, d.after 1568; m.1541 Gabrielle de Mareuil, Bss de Villebois
(d.1593)
1.3.3.2.2.1.Nicolas, b.1546, living 1568
1.3.3.2.2.2.Henriette, b.St-Fargeau 1543, d.young
1.3.3.2.2.3.Antoinette, b.Mezieres 1544, d.young
1.3.3.2.2.4.Renee, Duchess de Saint-Fargeau,
b.Mezieres 1550, d.1597; m.1566 Francois de Bourbon, Duc de Montpensier (d.1592)
1.3.1.1.1.1.1. Henri de Bourbon, Duc de Montpensier, married to Henriette de Lorraine-Joyeuse, with issue.
1.3.1.1.1.1.1.1. Marie de Bourbon, (d. 1627), Duchesse de Montpensier, mistress to Leonor de Orleans, Comte de St Paul, Duc de Fronjac, (d. 1622), m. Nantes 1626 Prince Gaston of France, Duc d'Orleans (d.1660), with issue.
1.3.1.1.1.1.1.1.1. [illegitimate] Henri de Orleans Meziere, (1621 -), mistress to Catherine Francoise de Bretagne, daughter of Claude de Brittany, Comte de Vertus, with issue.
1.3.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.[illegitimate] Jeanne de Meziere (1660-95), Mistress to Louis Joseph de Bourbon, Duc de Vendome, with issue.
1.3.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.[illegitimate]Jacqueline de Mezieres,
mistress to
Sir Charles Lennox KG, 1st Duke of Richmond and Lennox,
with issue.
1.3.3.2.3.Francoise, d.young
1.3.3.2.4.Francoise, Cts de Dammartin; m.1st Philippe de Boulainvilliers
(d.1536); m.2d Jean, sn de Rambures
1.3.3.2.5.Renee=Aymee; m.1st Hector de Bourbon, Vcte de Lavedan (d.1525); m.2d
Gabriel Olivier Baraton
1.3.3.2.6.Antoinette, living 1542; m.1529 Jean de Bourbon, Vcte de Lavedan
(d.1549)
1.3.3.2.7.[illegitimate] Marthe de Mezieres-Anjou; m.Philippe de Boulainvilliers
1.3.3.3.Anne, b.Mezieres 1478, d.young
1.3.3.4.Renee, b.Chinon 1480; m.there 1493 Francois de Pontville, Vcte de
Rochechouart
1.3.4.[illegitimate]Jean batard de Maine, sn de Charroux, d.1497; m.1493
Francoise, dau.of Jean de Blanchefort
1.3.5.[illegitimate]Marie batarde de Maine; m. N, sn d'Auricher
1.4.Marie, b.1404, d.Abbaye de Chateliers-en-Poitou 1463; m.Bourges 1422 King
Charles VII of France (d.1461)
1.5.a dau., b.1406, m. N, Ct of Geneva
1.6.Yolande, b.Arles 1412, d.1440, bur Vannes; m.Nantes 1431 Duc Francois I de
Bretagne (d.1450)
2.Charles, Pr of Tarento, Cte de Roucy, d'Etampes et de
Gien, b.1380, d.Angers 1404
3.Marie, b.1370, living 1383