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Frederick I, Count of Vaudémont

Frederick I, Count of Vaudémont

Count of Vaudémont

Frederick I, or Ferry I[1] of Lorraine (9 January 1369[citation needed] – October 25, 1415 in the Battle of Agincourt[2]) was a Count of Vaudémont.[1]

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He was the son of Duke John I of Lorraine (1346-1390) and Sophie of Württemberg (1343-1369).[3] He was a younger brother of Charles II.[citation needed] In 1394, Frederick married Margaret, the heiress of Vaudémont and Joinville, and became Count of these lands in her right.[4][5] He founded the House of Vaudémont, a junior branch of the House of Lorraine.

His children were:[6]

Dynastic problems in the senior line caused his great-grandson René of Vaudémont to become Duke of Lorraine as René II in 1473.[6]

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References

  1. [1]
    Kitchin, George William (1892). A History of France: A.D. 1453-1624. Clarendon Press. p. 251.
  2. [2]
    Higgins, Sophia Elizabeth (1885). Women of Europe in the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries. Hurst and Blackett. p. 297.
  3. [3]
    Anderson, James (1732). Royal Genealogies: Or, the Genealogical Tables of Emperors, Kings and Princes, from Adam to These Times; in Two Parts. London. p. 606.
  4. [4]
    Kitchin, George William (1892). A History of France: A.D. 1453-1624. Clarendon Press. p. 249.
  5. [5]
    Higgins, Sophia Elizabeth (1885). Women of Europe in the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries. Hurst and Blackett. p. 291.
  6. [6]
    Anderson, James (1732). Royal Genealogies: Or, the Genealogical Tables of Emperors, Kings and Princes, from Adam to These Times; in Two Parts. London. p. 607.


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