Bonne of Armagnac

Bonne of Armagnac
Duchess of Orléans
Born	19 February 1399 Lavardens
Died	1430–35 Castelnau-de-Montmiral
Spouse	Charles, Duke of Orléans
House	House of Armagnac
Father	Bernard VII, Count of Armagnac
Mother	Bonne of Berry

Bonne of Armagnac (19 February 1399 – 1430/35) was the eldest daughter of Bernard VII, Count of Armagnac and constable of France, and of Bonne of Berry.

Marriage

On 15 August 1410 at the age of 11, she married Charles, Duke of Orléans (left an orphan by his father Louis's assassination in 1407). This marriage made the constable not only Charles's father-in-law but also the natural defender of both Charles and his mother Valentina Visconti. The Orléans party, decapitated by Louis's death, thus became the Armagnac party, the name it held right up to the treaty of Arras (1435).

Following the French defeat at the Battle of Agincourt on 25 October 1415, her husband was taken prisoner by the English. Bonne had not borne any children prior to his Charles's imprisonment. She died, childless, sometime between 1430 and 1435 while her husband was still in captivity.

Ancestry

Family of Bonne of Armagnac

Bernard VI of Armagnac, Count of Armagnac               John I of Armagnac, Count of Armagnac                       Cecile de Rodez               John II of Armagnac, Count of Armagnac                             Jean de Clermont, Count of St. Charolais               Beatrice de Clermont, Dame de Charolais                       Jeanne d'Argies               Bernard VII of Armagnac, Count of Charolais, Count of Armagnac                                   Helie IX Talairand, Count of Périgord               Roger-Bernard I, Count of Périgord                       Brunissende de Foix               Jeanne de Périgord                             Bouchard VI of Vendôme               Eléonore de Vendôme                       Alix of Brittany               Bonne of Armagnac                                         Philip VI of France               John II of France                       Jeanne of Burgundy               John, Duke of Berry                             John the Blind of Luxembourg               Bonne of Luxembourg                       Elisabeth of Bohemia               Bonne de Berry                                   Bernard VI of Armagnac, Count of Armagnac               John I of Armagnac, Count of Armagnac                       Cecile de Rodez               Jeanne of Armagnac                             Jean de Clermont, Count of St. Charolais               Beatrice of Clermont, Dame de Charolais                       Jeanne d'Argies