Anne de Laval, Viscountess of Thouars

Anne de Laval
Spouse(s)	François de la Trémoïlle
Noble family	Laval
Father	Guy XVI de Laval
Mother	Charlotte of Aragon
Born	23 September 1505 Vitré
Died	1554 (aged 48–49) Craon

Anne de Laval (23 September 1505 - 1554), princesse de Tarente, was a French noblewoman and nominal pretender to the Kingdom of Naples. She was born at Vitré, Ille-et-Vilaine, the daughter of Guy XVI de Laval, count of Laval, and of Charlotte of Aragon, Princess of Taranto.^[1]

She was the only child of Charlotte to marry and leave heirs, thereby continuing the line of descent of Frederick of Naples. On 23 January 1521 she married François de la Trémoïlle, vicomte de Thouars.^[1] The marriage not only brought the La Trémoïlles the countship of Laval and the Neapolitan claim in 1521, but also the rank of princes étrangers at the French court.^[2] It is also said that she inherited the barony of Laz, as well, although Père Anselme's genealogy of her family makes no mention of it.^[1] She died at Craon, aged 48 or 49.

Her eldest son, Louis III de La Trémoille, became the first duc de Thouars in 1599, while her second son, Georges, and third son, Claude, founded the cadet branches of the marquises de Royan and the ducs de Noirmoutier, respectively.^[3]

Ancestry

Ancestors of Anne de Laval, Viscountess of Thouars

16. Jean de Montfort (Guy XIII)               8. Guy XIV de Laval                       17. Anne de Laval               4. Jean de Laval                             18. John VI, Duke of Brittany               9. Isabella of Brittany                       19. Joan of France               2. Guy XVI de Laval                                   20. Geoffroy III du Perier de St. Quentin               10. Tristan du Perrier de St. Quentin                       21. Plesou di Quintin or Isabelle de la Motte               5. Jeanne du Perrier                             22. Guillaume de Montauban               11. Isabeau de Montauban                       23. Bona Visconti               1. Anne de Laval                                         24. Alfonso V of Aragon               12. Ferdinand I of Naples                       25. Giraldona Carlino               6. Frederick of Naples                             26. Tristan de Clermont, Count of Copertino               13. Isabella of Clermont                       27. Caterina del Balzo Orsini               3. Charlotte of Naples                                   28. Louis, Duke of Savoy               14. Amadeus IX, Duke of Savoy                       29. Anne of Cyprus               7. Anne of Savoy                             30. Charles VII of France               15. Yolande of Valois                       31. Marie of Anjou

Notes

1. "Kingdom of Naples". Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition. 1911.
2. Spanheim, Ézéchiel (1973). ed. Emile Bourgeois, ed. Relation de la Cour de France. le Temps retrouvé (in French). Paris: Mercure de France. pp. 121, 344–345.
3. Père Anselme (1967) [1728]. "Des Pairs de France - Thouars: Généalogie de la Maison de La Tremoille". Histoire Genealogique et Chronologique de la Maison Royale de France, des Pairs, Grands Officiers de la Couronne (in French). Paris: Compagnie des Libraires. pp. 169, 174, 176.