page_title: Maria de la Cerda y de Lara
section_title: Life
hierarchical_section_title: Maria de la Cerda y de Lara / Life
caption_attribution_description: English: Maria de la Cerda and Charles II of Alençon
context_page_description: Maria de la Cerda y de Lara was the youngest daughter of Fernando de la Cerda and his wife Juana Núñez de Lara. Maria was a member of the Castilian House of Burgundy. By her second marriage she was Countess of Alençon.
context_section_description: Maria was a younger sister of Juan Núñez III de Lara and Blanca de la Cerda y Lara. When she was only three years of age her father died, her mother died twenty-nine years later in 1351.
  In April 1335 at Poissy, Maria married her first husband Charles d'Évreux. They were married for only a year but had twin sons. On the 5 September 1336 Charles died leaving Maria a seventeen-year-old widow with her two young sons.
  Maria remarried only three months after Charles' death to Charles II, Count of Alençon. It was a second marriage for them both, Charles' first wife Jeanne of Joigny had died the previous year. They were married for nine years when Charles died at the Battle of Crécy.
  Maria died in Paris on 13 March 1375 and was buried beside her second husband in the now-demolished church of the Couvent des Jacobins in Paris - their effigies are now in the Basilica of St Denis.
caption: Maria and her second husband Charles
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