Anne de La Tour d'Auvergne

Anne de la Tour d'Auvergne
Anne de la Tour d'Auvergne
Countess of Auvergne
	A contemporary portrait of Anne de la Tour d’Auvergne
Born	1496
Died	1524 (aged 28)
Noble family	La Tour d'Auvergne
Spouse(s)	John Stewart, Duke of Albany
Father	John III, Count of Auvergne
Mother	Jeanne de Bourbon-Vendôme

Anne de La Tour d'Auvergne (1496–1524) was sovereign Countess of Auvergne from 1501 until 1524, and Duchess of Albany by marriage to John Stewart, Duke of Albany. In her marriage contract, she was called 'Anne de Boulogne fille de Jehan Comte de Boulogne et Auvergne.'^[1]

Family[]

She was the eldest of two daughters born to Jean III of la Tour d'Auvergne and Jeanne of Bourbon.^[2] Her younger sister was Madeleine de La Tour d'Auvergne, who would marry Lorenzo II de' Medici and become the mother of Catherine de' Medici. As the elder daughter, Anne was her father's heiress.

Marriage[]

On 13 July 1505, she married her first cousin John Stewart, Duke of Albany, the intermittent heir presumptive to the Kingdom of Scotland and its sometime-regent, who lived in France as a sort of exile.^[3]

Death and inheritance[]

Anne died in 1524 at her castle of Saint-Saturnin,^[4] leaving her inheritance (the feudal county of Auvergne) to her infant niece, Catherine de' Medici (born 1519), daughter of her late younger sister Madeleine and Lorenzo II, Duke of Urbino.

A manuscript detailing Anne's inheritance, with pictures of her castles in Auvergne, and her descent from the legendary Belle Moree, daughter of a Pharaoh, survives in the Royal Library of the Hague.^[5] The Bibliothèque nationale de France has another manuscript version of this fabulous genealogy, and a similar inventory of Auvergne castles made for Catherine de' Medici.^[6] Anne and the Duke of Albany were painted in a stained-glass window at Vic-le-Comte.^[7]

Ancestry[]

Ancestors of Anne de La Tour d'Auvergne

16. Bertrand IV of la Tour

8. Bertrand V de la Tour

17. Marie I, Countess of Auvergne

4. Bertrand VI of Auvergne

18. Louis du Peschin

9. Jacquette du Peschin

19. Ysoul de Sully

2. John III, Count of Auvergne

20. Guy de La Trémoïlle

10. Georges de la Tremoille

21. Marie de Sully

5. Louise de la Tremoille

22. Jean de L'Isle-Bouchard

11. Catherine de L'Isle-Bouchard

23. Jeanne de Bueil

1. Anne de La Tour d'Auvergne, Countess of Auvergne

24. John I, Count of La Marche

12. Louis, Count of Vendôme

25. Catherine de Vendôme

6. Jean VIII, Count of Vendôme

26. Guy XIII de Laval

13. Jeanne of Laval

27. Anne de Laval

3. Jeanne de Bourbon-Vendôme

28. Pierre de Beauveau

14. Louis de Beauvau

29. Jeanne de Craon

7. Isabelle de Beauvau

30. Ferry V de Chambley

15. Marguerite de Chambley

31. Jeanne de Lannoy

References[]

^ Stuart, Marie W., The Scot who was a Frenchman, the Life of John Stewart, Duke of Albany, William Hodge (1940), 295.
^ Bleeke 2017, p. 75.
^ Stuart, Marie W., The Scot who was a Frenchman, the Life of John Stewart Duke of Albany, William Hodge (1940), 22.
^ Stuart, Marie W., The Scot who was a Frenchman, the Life of John Stewart, Duke of Albany, William Hodge (1940), 172.
^ Manuscript c1505 with pictures of Auvergne castles belonging to Anne de la tour Princesse d'Ecossse. (Hague, KB, 74 G 11)
^ Généalogie fabuleuse d'Anne de La Tour, BNF Fr. 20209
^ Stuart, Marie W., The Scot who was a Frenchman, (1940), 293: Luneau, Jean-François, Revue de l'Art, vol. 107, (1995), 17-26, "Les Vitraux de la Sainte-Chapelle de Vic-le-Comte".

Sources[]

Bleeke, Marian (2017). Motherhood and Meaning in Medieval Sculpture: Representations from France, C.1100-1500. The Boydell Press.
Coombs, B., 'The Artistic Patronage of John Stuart, Duke of Albany, 1518-19: The 'Discovery' of the Artist and Author, Bremond Domat', The Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, 144 (2014).
Coombs, B., 'The Artistic Patronage of John Stuart, Duke of Albany, 1520-1530: Vic-le-Comte, the Last Sainte-Chapelle', Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, 147 (2017).

Preceded by John III	Countess of Auvergne 1501–1524	Succeeded by Catherine

[1] Stuart, Marie W., The Scot who was a Frenchman, the Life of John Stewart, Duke of Albany, William Hodge (1940), 295.

[FOOTNOTEBleeke201775-2] Bleeke 2017, p. 75.

[3] Stuart, Marie W., The Scot who was a Frenchman, the Life of John Stewart Duke of Albany, William Hodge (1940), 22.

[4] Stuart, Marie W., The Scot who was a Frenchman, the Life of John Stewart, Duke of Albany, William Hodge (1940), 172.

[5] Manuscript c1505 with pictures of Auvergne castles belonging to Anne de la tour Princesse d'Ecossse. (Hague, KB, 74 G 11)

[6] Généalogie fabuleuse d'Anne de La Tour, BNF Fr. 20209

[7] Stuart, Marie W., The Scot who was a Frenchman, (1940), 293: Luneau, Jean-François, Revue de l'Art, vol. 107, (1995), 17-26, "Les Vitraux de la Sainte-Chapelle de Vic-le-Comte".

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