Charles, Count of Angoulême

Charles d'Orléans, Count of Angoulême
Spouse(s)	Louise of Savoy
Noble family	Valois
Father	John, Count of Angoulême
Mother	Marguerite de Rohan
Born	1459
Died	1 January 1496

Charles d'Orléans, Count of Angoulême (French: Charles d'Orléans, Comte d'Angoulême) (1459 – 1 January 1496), was the son of John, Count of Angoulême^[1] and Marguerite de Rohan, and was Count of Angoulême from 1467-1496. Charles was a member of the French Orléans family descended from Louis I de Valois, Duke of Orléans, who was the son of Charles V of France.^[1]

He married the 11-year-old, Louise of Savoy, daughter of Philip the Landless and Margaret of Bourbon, on 16 February 1488.^[2] They had two children:

• Marguerite d'Angoulême (11 April 1492 – 21 December 1549)^[3]
• François d'Angoulême (12 September 1494 – 31 March 1547), who became King of France as Francis I.^[4]

Charles also had two illegitimate daughters by his mistress Antoinette de Polignac,^[4] Dame de Combronde, who was his wife's lady-in-waiting:

• Jeanne d'Angoulême (c. 1490 – after 1531/1538),^[4] married firstly Jean Aubin, Seigneur de Malicorne, and secondly, Jean IV de Longwy, Baron of Pagny, by whom she had three daughters. The youngest, Jacqueline de Longwy (died 28 August 1561), in her own turn married Louis III de Bourbon, Duke of Montpensier.
• Madeleine d'Angoulême,^[4] Abbess of Fontevrault (died 26 October 1543)

He also had an illegitimate daughter by mistress Jeanne Le Conte:^[4]

• Souveraine d'Angoulême (died 23 February 1551),^[4] married Michel III de Gaillard, Seigneur de Chilly. In 1534 Married French Ambassador Louis de Perreau, Sieur de Castillon.

Ancestry

Ancestors of Charles, Count of Angoulême

16. John II of France               8. Charles V of France                       17. Bonne of Bohemia               4. Louis I, Duke of Orleans                             18. Peter I, Duke of Bourbon               9. Joanna of Bourbon                       19. Isabella of Valois               2. John, Count of Angoulême                                   20. Galeazzo II Visconti               10. Gian Galeazzo Visconti                       21. Bianca of Savoy               5. Valentina Visconti                             22. John II of France               11. Isabella of Valois                       23. Bonne of Luxembourg               1. Charles, Count of Angoulême                                         6. Henri, Duke of Rohan                             3. Marguerite de Rohan                                   7. Jeanne Pelagie, Princess of Epinoy

References

1. R.J. Knecht, Francis I, (Cambridge University Press, 1982), xvi.
2. R.J. Knecht, Francis I, 1.
3. Jonathan A. Reid, King's Sister - Queen of Dissent: Marguerite of Navarre (1492-1549) and her Evangelical Network, Vol. 1, ed. Andrew Colin Gow, (Brill, 2009), 56-57.
4. R.J. Knecht, Francis I, 2.