María de la Cerda
In this
Spanish name , the first or paternal
surname is
de la Cerda and the second or maternal family name is
de Lara .
Countess of Étampes
Maria de la Cerda y de Lara (1319 – 13 March 1375) was the youngest daughter of Fernando de la Cerda and his wife Juana Núñez de Lara . Maria was a member of the Castilian House of Burgundy . By her second marriage she was Countess of Alençon .
Life
Maria was a younger sister of Juan Núñez III de Lara and Blanca de la Cerda y Lara . When she was only three years of age her father died, her mother died twenty-nine years later in 1351.
Maria and her second husband Charles
In April 1335 at Poissy , Maria married her first husband Charles d'Évreux . They were married for only a year but had twin sons. On the 5 September 1336 Charles died leaving Maria a seventeen-year-old widow with her two young sons.
Maria remarried only three months after Charles' death to Charles II, Count of Alençon . It was a second marriage for them both, Charles' first wife Jeanne of Joigny had died the previous year. They were married for nine years when Charles died at the Battle of Crécy .
Maria died in Paris on 13 March 1375 and was buried beside her second husband in the now-demolished church of the Couvent des Jacobins in Paris - their effigies are now in the Basilica of St Denis .
Children
With Charles d'Évreux she had twin sons:
Louis II d'Évreux (1336–1400), married Jeanne (d. 1389), daughter of Raoul I of Brienne, Count of Eu
John (1336 – aft. 1373, Rome )
With Charles II of Alençon she had the following children:
Charles III of Alençon (1337 – 5 July 1375, Lyon )
Philippe of Alençon (1338–1397, Rome), made Bishop of Beauvais in 1356, later Cardinal , Archbishop of Rouen , Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem , Patriarch of Aquileia , and Bishop of Ostia and Sabina
Peter II of Alençon (1340 – 20 September 1404)
Isabelle (1342 – 3 September 1379, Poissy ), became a nun
Robert of Alençon (1344–1377), Count of Perche, married 5 April 1374 Jeanne, daughter of Viscount John I of Rohan
References
Sources
Doubleday, Simon R. (2001). The Lara Family: Crown and Nobility in Medieval Spain . Harvard University Press.
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