Marie of Luxembourg-Saint-Pol (c. 1472 — 1 April 1547) was the ruling Countess Regnant of Soissons and Saint-Pol between 25 October 1482 and 1 April 1547. She was additionally made Countess consort of Vendôme through her marriage to Francis, Count of Vendôme.[1] After the death of her spouse, she became regent of the County of Vendôme as the guardian of her son, Charles de Bourbon.[2]
Marie was first married as a child to her maternal uncle, Jacques of Savoy, Count of Romont. [3] A commander in the army of Charles the Bold, he was deprived of his appanage, the Vaud, by Swiss armies sent by Berne and Fribourg. This happened shortly before Marie's prospects as heiress were greatly diminished following her grandfather, the French constable Louis de Luxembourg, Count of Saint-Pol's, execution for treason in 1475; which entailed the sequestration of his property. She inherited the County of Soissons and the County of Saint-Pol after the death of her father in 1482.
When her husband Francis died in 1495, she became guardian of their minor son and heir Charles. This entailed management of the lands he inherited from his father as well as her own. During this period, she enlarged the Collégiale Saint Georges, rebuilt the Church of Saint Martin, and donated the Porte Saint Georges-aux-Bourgeois-de-Vendôme to become the Mairie.
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