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Margaret of Brittany 
Marriage of Margaret and Francis. Duchess of Brittany Tenure 26 December 1458–25 September 1469
(10 years, 273 days)Spouse Francis II, Duke of Brittany Issue Francis, Count of Montfort House Dreux-Montfort Father Francis I, Duke of Brittany Mother Isabella of Scotland Born c. 1443 Died 25 September 1469 (aged 25–26)
NantesBurial Nantes Cathedral Religion Roman Catholicism Margaret of Brittany (in Breton Marc'harid Breizh, in French Marguerite de Bretagne) (c. 1443 – 25 September 1469) was the elder of the two daughters of Francis I, Duke of Brittany (died 1450), by his second wife, Isabella of Scotland, and hence granddaughter of James I of Scotland.
Since the Breton War of Succession, Brittany had been understood to operate according to semi-Salic Law–women could only inherit if the male line had died out. As expected from the provision of the Treaty of Guérande, which ended the war, neither Margaret nor her younger sister, Marie, were recognized as heirs of the duchy. After her father's death, her uncle Peter II succeeded as Duke of Brittany. He was also childless and to avoid any subsequent dispute, he arranged the marriage of Margaret to Francis of Etampes, the second in the order of succession and the last male left of the Breton House of Montfort, and the younger Marie to John II, Viscount of Rohan, the most powerful noble in Brittany.
In 13 or 16 November 1455, she was married to her cousin Francis of Etampes at the Château de l'Hermine, Vannes. She became Duchess of Brittany upon his ascession as Francis II, Duke of Brittany in 1458. Their only son Francis, Count of Montfort, died in 1463. Anne of Brittany (1476/7–1514), queen successively of Charles VIII of France and Louis XII of France, was her widower's daughter by a subsequent marriage.
Margaret died, September 25, 1469, in Nantes. She was buried in the Cathedral of St. Peter and St. Paul, Nantes, in the tomb constructed for her and her husband and later his second wife, Margaret of Foix.
Ancestry
Ancestors of Margaret of Brittany 16. John IV, Duke of Brittany 8. John V, Duke of Brittany 17. Joanna of Flanders 4. John VI, Duke of Brittany 18. Charles II of Navarre 9. Joan of Navarre 19. Joan of France 2. Francis I, Duke of Brittany 20. Charles V of France 10. Charles VI of France 21. Joanna of Bourbon 5. Joan of France 22. Stephen III, Duke of Bavaria 11. Isabeau of Bavaria 23. Taddea Visconti 1. Margaret of Brittany 24. Robert II of Scotland 12. Robert III of Scotland 25. Elizabeth Mure 6. James I of Scotland 26. Sir John Drummond, 11th of Lennox 13. Anabella Drummond 27. Mary Montifex 3. Isabella of Scotland 28. John of Gaunt, 1st Duke of Lancaster 14. John Beaufort, 1st Earl of Somerset 29. Katherine Roet 7. Joan Beaufort 30. Thomas Holland, 2nd Earl of Kent 15. Margaret Holland 31. Alice FitzAlan Margaret of BrittanyHouse of MontfortCadet branch of the House of DreuxBorn: 1443 Died: 25 September 1469Royal titles Preceded by
Catherine of Luxembourg-Saint-PolDuchess consort of Brittany
1458–1469Succeeded by
Margaret of FoixCategories:- 1443 births
- 1469 deaths
- House of Dreux
- Duchesses of Brittany
- French nobility stubs
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