Background
Her father remarried two more times. She gained several half-siblings from her father"s third marriage to Margaret of Sancerre.
Her father remarried two more times. She gained several half-siblings from her father"s third marriage to Margaret of Sancerre.
Anne"s mother died when she was around eleven years of age. The marriage contract was signed at Montbrison on 4 July 1368 and the pair were married in person at Ardes in January 1370. Due to the fact that the couple were cousins, a papal dispensation was required.
This was granted to them by the Pope on 15 September 1370.
Anne was his heir, as all of John"s siblings had died including Anne"s mother Jeanne and she had been the only one to leave a child, namely Anne. Anne and Louis were married for forty years.
They had four children:
Catherine of Bourbon (b 1378), daughter young
John of Bourbon (1381–1434), Duke of Bourbon
Louis of Bourbon (1388 – 1404), Sieur de Beaujeu
Isabelle of Bourbon (1384 – aft 1451), engaged to Eric of Pomerania but eventually became a nun. In 1400, Anne"s father died and he left her the Dauphinate of Auvergne, which she ruled over for the next seventeen years.
Anne ruled over her Dauphinate for another seven years, until her own death at Moulins on 22 September 1417.