Margaret of Lorraine

Margaret of Lorraine
Not to be confused with Marguerite of Lorraine.
Blessed Margaret of Lorraine
Duchess of Alençon
Born 1463
Castle of Vaudémont, Lorraine, France
Died 2 November 1521 (aged 58)
Argentan, Normandy
Honored in Roman Catholicism
Beatified 1921 March 10, Rome by Pope Benedict XV
Feast November 2
Margaret of Lorraine
Duchess of Alençon
Spouse(s) René of Alençon, Duke of Alençon
Issue
Charles IV of Alençon
Françoise of Alençon, Duchess of Beaumont
Anne of Alençon, Lady of La Guerche
Noble family House of Lorraine
House of Anjou
Father Ferri de Vaudimont
Mother Yolande d'Anjou
Born 1463
Castle of Vaudémont, Lorraine, France
Died 2 November 1521 (aged 58)
Argentan, Normandy

Margaret of Lorraine (1463, castle of Vaudémont, Lorraine- 2 November 1521, Argentan, Normandy) was Duchess of Alençon, and a nun of the order of Poor Clares (Ordre des Clarisses). She was beatified in 1921.[1]

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Marriage and children

Margaret was the youngest daughter of Ferri de Vaudimont and Yolande d'Anjou. She lost her father at the age of seven, and was brought up at Aix-en-Provence by her grandfather René of Anjou. The latter died in 1480 and she was sent back to Lorraine to her brother, René II. He arranged her marriage to René, Duke of Alençon, whom she wed in Toul on 14 May 1488.

Alençon and Margaret had three children:

Widowhood

Left a widow in 1492, she busied herself in the administration of her duchy and the education of her children. When she was relieved of the duties imposed upon her by her position, she decided to renounce the world and retired to Mortagne, to a monastery of religious women who followed the rule of Saint Elizabeth. Later, having brought with her to Argentan some of these nuns, she founded there another monastery which she placed, with the authorization of the pope, under the rule of Saint Clare, modified by the Minor Observants.

She herself took the religious habit in this house and made her vows on 11 October 1520. On 2 November 1521, after having lived an austere life for a year, she died in her modest cell, at the age of sixty-two. Her body, preserved in the monastery of the Poor Clares, and when that monastery was suppressed, was transferred to the church of Saint Germain d'Argentan. In 1793, during the French Revolution, it was profaned and thrown into the common burial place.

The memory of Margaret of Lorraine is preserved in the "Martyrologium Franciscanum" and in the "Martyrologium gallicanum". After an invitation made by the bishop of Séez, Jacques Camus de Pontcarré, Louis XIII asked Pope Urban VIII to order a canonical inquiry into the virtues and the miracles of the Duchess.

Notes

  1. ^ Patron Saints Index: Time Line: 1921

References

Attribution

 This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domainHerbermann, Charles, ed (1913). "Blessed Margaret of Lorraine". Catholic Encyclopedia. Robert Appleton Company. 


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