Bonne of Luxembourg

Bonne of Luxemburg or Jutta of Luxemburg (20 May 1315Template:Spaced en dash11 September 1349), was born Jutta (Judith), the second daughter of King John of Bohemia,Template:Sfn and his first wife, Elisabeth of Bohemia.Template:Sfn She was the first wife of King John II of France; however, as she died a year prior to his accession, she was never a French queen. Jutta was referred to in French historiography as Bonne de Luxembourg, since she was a member of the House of Luxembourg. Among her children were Charles V of France, Philip II, Duke of Burgundy, and Joan, Queen of Navarre.

Biography

In June or July 1315, Jutta was betrothed to the future King Casimir the Great of Poland<ref>Kazimierz Jasiński: Polityka małżeńska Władysława Łokietka. In: Genealogia - rola związków rodzinnych i rodowych w życiu publicznym w Polsce średniowiecznej na tle porównawczym, p. 14.</ref> but he married Aldona of Lithuania in 1325 instead.

In 1326, Jutta was next betrothed to Henry of Bar. This arrangement was broken, however, and she stayed at the abbey of Saint-Esprit until her marriage to John, Duke of Normandy and future King John II of France.Template:Sfn

The family of King John.

Jutta was married to John, Duke of Normandy, on 28 July 1332Template:Sfn at the Collegiate Church of Notre-Dame, Melun. She was 17 years old, and the future king was 13. Her name Jutta (or Guta), translatable into English as Good (in the feminine case), was changed by the time of her marriage to Bonne (French) or Bona (Latin). Upon marriage, Bonne was the wife of the heir to the French throne, becoming Duchess of Normandy and Countess of Anjou and Maine. The wedding was celebrated in the presence of six thousand guests. The festivities were prolonged by a further two months when the young groom was finally knighted at the cathedral of Notre-Dame in Paris. John was solemnly granted the arms of a knight in front of a prestigious audience bringing together the kings of Bohemia and Navarre, and the dukes of Burgundy, Lorraine and the Brabant.

Bonne was a patron of the arts, the composer Guillaume de Machaut being one of her favorites.Template:Sfn

She died on 11 September 1349 of the bubonic plague in Maubuisson, France at the age of thirty-four.Template:Sfn She was buried in the Abbey of Maubuisson.Template:Sfn

Less than six months after Bonne's death, John married Joan I, Countess of Auvergne.

Issue

John and Bonne had the following children together:

• Charles V of France (21 January 1338Template:Spaced en dash16 September 1380)Template:Sfn
• Catherine (1338Template:En dash1338) died young
• Louis I, Duke of Anjou (23 July 1339Template:Spaced en dash20 September 1384)Template:Sfn
• John, Duke of Berry (30 November 1340Template:Spaced en dash15 June 1416)
• Philip II, Duke of Burgundy (17 January 1342Template:Spaced en dash27 April 1404)Template:Sfn
• Joan (24 June 1343Template:Spaced en dash3 November 1373), married Charles II of Navarre in 1352Template:Sfn
• Marie (12 September 1344Template:Spaced en dashOctober 1404), married Robert, Duke of Bar in 1364Template:Sfn
• Agnes (1345Template:En dash1349), died young
• Margaret (1347Template:En dash1352), died young
• Isabelle (1 October 1348Template:Spaced en dash11 September 1372),Template:Sfn married Gian Galeazzo Visconti in 1360

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