Marie of Valois, Duchess of Calabria

Marie was the daughter of Charles of Valois and Mahaut of Chatillon.

[1] She married Charles, Duke of Calabria, in 1323, when she was only fourteen years of age.

Marie earned the gratitude of the genteel women in Florence when she persuaded her husband to allow them to wear what they could afford.

[3] Charles and Marie had five children: Her eldest surviving daughter, Joanna, became Queen of Naples.

Her youngest daughter, Maria, born six months after Charles' death, became the Countess of Alba.