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John II, Count of Nevers

French noble (1415–1491)

Field	Value
name	John II of Nevers
title	Count of Nevers, Rethel and Eu
image	SOAOTO - Jean de Bourgogne (1415-1491).jpg
caption	John II, Count of Nevers
noble family	Valois-Burgundy-Nevers
father	Philip II, Count of Nevers
mother	Bonne of Artois
spouse	Jacqueline d'Ailly
Pauline de Brosse
Marie d'Albret
birth_date	before 20 October 1415
birth_place	Clamecy, Nievre
death_date
death_place	Nevers

Pauline de Brosse Marie d'Albret

John II, Count of Nevers (fr. Jean de Nevers , 1415–1491), known as John of Clamecy prior to acquiring titles, was a French nobleman and the last male member of the House of Valois-Burgundy. He was initially Count of Étampes from 1442 to 1465, and later became Count of Nevers and Rethel from 1464, and also Count of Eu from 1472. Since John had no male heirs, his counties of Nevers and Eu were inherited by his grandson Engelbert of Cleves, son of John's older daughter Elizabeth of Nevers (d. 1483), while the County of Rethel was inherited by John's younger daughter Charlotte (d. 1500).

Life

John was the son of Philip II, Count of Nevers and Bonne of Artois, daughter of Philip of Artois, Count of Eu. His father was the youngest son of Philip the Bold, Duke of Burgundy. As the younger son, John became Count of Étampes in 1442. John's elder brother, Charles I, Count of Nevers and Rethel, had no legitimate children, and so on his death in 1464 his titles passed to John. In 1472, his uncle Charles of Artois, Count of Eu, died, and having no legitimate children, his title also passed to John.

John fought in the army of his stepfather Philip the Good and was active in Picardy (1434), Calais (1436), Luxembourg (1443), and Flanders (1453). But he clashed with Philip's successor, Charles the Bold, and he defected to King Louis XI of France. He fought alongside Louis XI in the War of the Public Weal and became Lieutenant General of Normandy.

Being the closest male cousin of duke Charles of Burgundy, who died in 1477 without male heirs, John was excluded as a potential heir by the French king Louis XI, who seized the Duchy of Burgundy as a reverted royal fief, while the exclusion of John was based on the royal charter of 1364, that was restricting the Burgundian succession to direct male descendants, thus eliminating potential heirs from collateral branches.

Family

John was first married on 24 November 1435 in Amiens, to Jacqueline d'Ailly, Dame d'Ingelmunster (died 1470), they had two children:

Elizabeth (c. 1439 – 21 June 1483), who married John I, Duke of Cleves.
Philip (1446–1452).

Upon Jacqueline's death in 1470 he married secondly on 30 August 1471, in , to Pauline de Brosse (-1479), daughter of Jean II de Brosse. They had one child:

Charlotte (c. 1472 – 23 August 1500), Countess of Rethel (1491-1500), who married John d'Albret and had a daughter, Marie d'Albret, Countess of Rethel.

John's final marriage was on 11 March 1480, in the château de Châlus-Chabrol (Limousin), to Marie d'Albret (-1521).

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References

Patrick Van Kerrebrouck, ''Nouvelle histoire généalogique de l'auguste maison de France'', vol. 3: ''Les Valois'', Villeneuve d'Ascq, 1990, p. 406, note 2.

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