Yolande, Duchess of Lorraine, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Duchess of Lorraine
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Place of Birth: Nancy, Grand Est, France
About Yolande, Duchess of Lorraine
- Yolande (2 November 1428, Nancy – 23 March 1483, Nancy), was Duchess of Lorraine (1473) and Bar (1480).
- She was the daughter of Isabella, Duchess of Lorraine, and René of Anjou (King of Naples, Duke of Anjou, Bar and Lorraine, Count of Provence).
- Though she was nominally in control of major territories, she ceded her power and titles to her husband and her son.
- In addition, her younger sister was Margaret of Anjou, Queen of England. In the 19th century, a romanticised version of her early life was popularised by the play King René’s Daughter by Henrik Hertz, in which she is portrayed as a beautiful blind princess living in an isolated garden paradise.
- It was later adapted to Tchaikovsky's opera Iolanta.
- There is no evidence that she was ever blind.
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