Ancestral Trails 2016 » Yolande de BURGUNDY II (1247-1280)

Personal data Yolande de BURGUNDY II 

• She was born December 1247 in Dijon, Côte-d'Or, Bourgogne, France.
• Title: Countess of Nevers
• She died on June 2, 1280 in Nevers, Nièvre, Bourgogne, France, she was 32 years old.
• She is buried in the year 1280 in Nevers, Nièvre, Bourgogne, France.
• A child of Eudes de BURGUNDY and Matilda Maud de DAMPIERRE

Household of Yolande de BURGUNDY II

(1) She is married to Jean Tristan de FRANCE.

They got married June 1265 at Paris, Seine, Île-de-France, France, she was 17 years old.

(2) She is married to Robert de DAMPIERRE.

They got married March 1271/72 at Auxerre, Yonne, Bourgogne, France, she was 23 years old.

Child(ren):

1. Louis de NEVERS  1272-1322 
2. Jeanne de FLANDERS  ± 1276-1333
3. Yolande de DAMPIERRE  ± 1278-1313
4. Robert de DAMPIERRE  ± 1274-1331 
5. Mathilde de DAMPIERRE  < 1280-????

Notes about Yolande de BURGUNDY II

Yolande II or Yolande of Nevers (French: Yolande de Bourgogne), (December 1247 - 2 June 1280) was the daughter of Odo of Burgundy, and Matilda II, Countess of Nevers.

On the death of her mother in 1262, Yolande, became the titular countess of Nevers, which included the counties of Tonnerre and Auxerre. However, in 1273 the arbitrators at the Parlement de Paris decided that the inheritance would be split among the sisters: Yolande got Nevers and the Château de Druyes, while her sisters Margaret and Adelaide inherited Tonnerre and Auxerre, respectively. Their aunt Agnes received the Bourbon fiefs. Upon the death of her paternal grandfather, Hugh IV, Duke of Burgundy, in 1272, Yolande and her influential husband, Robert of Flanders claimed the Duchy of Burgundy on the basis of primogeniture, being the first-born child of Hugh's deceased eldest son. Hugh IV, however, in his will named his third son, Robert, as heir to the Duchy while giving other fiefs to his granddaughters. King Philip III of France, one of the arbitrators, decided in favor of her uncle, who thus became Duke Robert II, on the basis of proximity of blood.

Her first marriage was to John Tristan, Count of Valois, son of Louis IX of France and Margaret of Provence, in June 1265; they had no children, and he died of dysentery in 1270 at Tunis while on the Eighth Crusade.

Yolanda then remarried in March 1272 at Auxerre to Robert III, Count of Flanders. Their children were:

Louis I (1272-1322), Count of Nevers and of Réthel. His son was Louis I, Count of Flanders
Robert (d. 1331), Seigneur of Marle and of Cassel, married (1323) Joan of Brittany (1294-1364), daughter of Arthur II of Brittany, and Yolande, countess of Montfort, producing:
John, Seigneur of Cassel (d. 1332)
Yolande (1331-1395), married Henry IV of Bar.
Joan (d. 1333), married in 1288 Enguerrand IV of Coucy (d. 1310), Seigneur of Coucy and Viscount of Meaux
Yolande (d. 1313), married in about 1287 Wautier II of Enghien (d. 1309)
Matilda, married about 1314 in Matthieu of Lorraine (d. 1330), lord of Warsberg
SOURCE: Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yolande_II,_Countess_of_Nevers

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