René I of Naples

René d'Anjou, René I of Naples (René I the Good, French Le bon roi René) (January 16, 1409 – July 10, 1480), was Duke of Anjou, Count of Provence (1434–1480), Count of Piedmont, Duke of Bar (1430–1480), Duke of Lorraine (1431–1453), King of Naples (1438–1442; titular 1442–1480) and titular King of Jerusalem (1438–1480) and Aragon (1466–1480) (including Sicily, Majorca, and Corsica).

Marriages and issue

René married:

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• Isabelle de Lorraine (1410–February 28, 1453) in 1420
• Jeanne de Laval, on September 10, 1454, at the Abbey of St. Nicholas in Angers

Children (all by Isabelle):

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• John II, Duke of Lorraine (1425–1470)
• René (b. 1426)
• Louis of Anjou (1427, Nancy – 1443), Marquis of Pont-à-Mousson
• Nicolas (b. 1428, Nancy), d. young
• Yolande of Lorraine (November 2, 1428 – March 23, 1483), married 1445, Nancy, Frederick, Count of Vaudémont
• Margaret (March 23, 1429 – August 25, 1482), married Henry VI of England.
• Charles (1431–1432), Count of Guise
• Isabelle, d. young
• Louise (b. 1436), d. young
• Anne (b. 1437), d. young

He also had several illegitimate children:

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• John, Bastard of Anjou (d. 1536), Marquis of Pont-à-Mousson, married 1500 Marguerite de Glandeves-Faucon
• Jeanne Blanche (d. 1470), Lady of Mirebeau, married in Paris 1467 Bertrand de Beauvau (d. 1474)
• Madeleine (d. aft. 1515), Countesss of Montferrand (+after 1515), married in Tours 1496 Louis Jean, seigneur de Bellenave