A Cyclopaedia of Female Biography/Anne of Dauphine

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Anne of Viennois

4108317A Cyclopaedia of Female Biography — Anne of Dauphine

ANNE OF DAUPHINE,

Was the daughter of Guignes, the seventh or eighth dauphin of Viennois, of the second race. The date of her birth is not known, that of her marriage to Humbert, baron of La Tour diu Pin, is 1273. In the year 1281, on the death of her brother Jean, she succeeded to the Dauphinate of Vienne, and the county of Albon, in conjunction with her husband. This princess had several children, the eldest of whom, Jean, succeeded to the possessions, which were claimed by the duke of Burgundy, the date of her death is not recorded; she was buried in the Carthusian monastery of Salette, in the barony of La Tour, on the south bank of the Rhine, which monastery was founded by herself and her husband in the year 1299.