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unusual facts about Valentina Visconti, Duchess of Orléans



Jean Marie, Duke of Châteauvillain

His sister Louise Marie Adélaïde de Bourbon, future Duchess of Orléans would move Jean Marie's body to the Royal Chapel, Dreux; Dreux is today the burial site of the Royal House of Orléans which descends from Marie Adélaïde and her husband, Philippe Égalité.

Valentina Visconti, Duchess of Orléans

A patroness of Eustache Deschamps, who wrote poetry in her honour, she was also the mother of one of France's most famous poets, Charles of Orléans.

Valentina outlived her husband by only a little over a year, dying at Blois at the age of 40.

Margaret, Countess of Vertus (1406–1466), married Richard of Brittany, Count of Étampes

Valentina Visconti (1368 – died 4 December 1408) was a sovereign Countess of Vertus, and a duchess consort of Orléans as the wife of Louis de Valois, Duke of Orléans, the younger brother of Charles VI of France.

After her mother, she was the sovereign Countess of Vertus from 1372, a title she shared with her spouse.


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