Anne de Laval, Viscountess of Thouars

Anne de Laval
Anne de Laval
	Portrait of Anne de Laval
Born	23 September 1505; Vitré
Died	1554 (aged 48–49); Craon
Noble family	Laval (by birth); La Trémoille (by marriage)
Spouse(s)	François de la Trémoïlle
Issue	Louis de La Trémoille, 1st Duke of Thouars
Father	Guy XVI de Laval
Mother	Charlotte of Aragon

Anne de Laval (23 September 1505 – 1554), Princess of Taranto, was a French noblewoman and nominal pretender to the Kingdom of Naples.

Early life and ancestry

Born at Vitré, Ille-et-Vilaine, into an old French House of Laval, she was the daughter of Guy XVI de Laval, count of Laval, and his wife, Charlotte of Aragon, Princess of Taranto, herself an heiress of the royal House of Trastámara.^[1]

Biography

She was the only child of Charlotte to marry and leave heirs, thereby continuing the line of descent of Frederick of Naples. On 23 January 1521 she married François de la Trémoïlle, vicomte de Thouars.^[1]

The marriage not only brought the La Trémoïlles the countship of Laval and the Neapolitan claim in 1521, but also the rank of princes étrangers at the French court.^[2] It is also said that she inherited the barony of Laz, as well, although Père Anselme's genealogy of her family makes no mention of it.^[1]

Her eldest son, Louis III de La Trémoille, became the first duc de Thouars in 1599, while her second son, Georges, and third son, Claude, founded the cadet branches of the marquises de Royan and the ducs de Noirmoutier, respectively.^[3]

Death

Anne died in November 1553 in Craon, Mayenne, Kingdom of France, at the age of 48.^[4] She was buried in Église Saint-Nicolas in Craon.^[5]

Ancestry

Ancestors of Anne de Laval, Viscountess of Thouars

16. Jean de Montfort (Guy XIII)

8. Guy XIV de Laval

17. Anne de Laval

4. Jean de Laval

18. John VI, Duke of Brittany

9. Isabella of Brittany

19. Joan of France

2. Guy XVI de Laval

20. Geoffroy III du Perier de St. Quentin

10. Tristan du Perrier de St. Quentin

21. Plesou di Quintin or Isabelle de la Motte

5. Jeanne du Perrier

22. Guillaume de Montauban

11. Isabeau de Montauban

23. Bona Visconti

1. Anne de Laval

24. Alfonso V of Aragon

12. Ferdinand I of Naples

25. Giraldona Carlino

6. Frederick of Naples

26. Tristan de Clermont, Count of Copertino

13. Isabella of Clermont

27. Caterina del Balzo Orsini

3. Charlotte of Naples

28. Louis, Duke of Savoy

14. Amadeus IX, Duke of Savoy

29. Anne of Cyprus

7. Anne of Savoy

30. Charles VII of France

15. Yolande of Valois

31. Marie of Anjou

Notes

^ ^a ^b ^c Villari 1911.
^ Spanheim, Ézéchiel (1973). Emile Bourgeois (ed.). Relation de la Cour de France. le Temps retrouvé (in French). Paris: Mercure de France. pp. 121, 344–345.
^ Père Anselme (1967) [1728]. "Des Pairs de France - Thouars: Généalogie de la Maison de La Tremoille". Histoire Genealogique et Chronologique de la Maison Royale de France, des Pairs, Grands Officiers de la Couronne (in French). Paris: Compagnie des Libraires. pp. 169, 174, 176.
^ https://www.genealogics.org/getperson.php?personID=I00004032&tree=LEO
^ https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/187761892/anne_de_laval

References

Villari, Luigi (1911). "Naples, Kingdom of" . In Chisholm, Hugh (ed.). Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 19 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. pp. 182–190.

[FOOTNOTEVillari1911-1] Villari 1911.

[2] Spanheim, Ézéchiel (1973). Emile Bourgeois (ed.). Relation de la Cour de France. le Temps retrouvé (in French). Paris: Mercure de France. pp. 121, 344–345.

[3] Père Anselme (1967) [1728]. "Des Pairs de France - Thouars: Généalogie de la Maison de La Tremoille". Histoire Genealogique et Chronologique de la Maison Royale de France, des Pairs, Grands Officiers de la Couronne (in French). Paris: Compagnie des Libraires. pp. 169, 174, 176.

[4] ttps://www.genealogics.org/getperson.php?personID=I00004032&tree=LEO

[5] ttps://www.findagrave.com/memorial/187761892/anne_de_laval

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