English: Coat of arms of w:Jacquetta of Luxembourg (1415 or 1416 – 30 May 1472), the eldest daughter of Peter I of Luxembourg, Count of Saint-Pol, Conversano and Brienne, and his wife Margaret of Baux (Margherita del Balzo of Andria).[1] Her father Peter of Luxembourg, Count of Saint-Pol, was also the hereditary Count of Brienne from 1397 until his death in 1433.

Jacquetta of Luxembourg was a prominent, though often overlooked, figure in the Wars of the Roses. Through her short-lived first marriage to the Duke of Bedford, brother of King Henry V, she was firmly allied to the House of Lancaster. However, following the emphatic Lancastrian defeat at the Battle of Towton, she and her second husband Richard Woodville sided closely with the House of York. Three years after the battle and the accession of Edward IV of England, Jacquetta's eldest daughter Elizabeth Woodville married him and became queen consort of England. Jacquetta bore Woodville 14 children and stood trial on charges of witchcraft, of which she was exonerated.

Heraldry

Source: Transactions of the Historic Society of Lancashire and Cheshire for the year 1855, pp.1-10[1]; As per Arms of Queen Elizabeth Woodville. Text from: David Broomfield BA (Hons), The Heraldry of Queens’ College, Cambridge [2]

Quarterly of 12:

• 1 & 12: Lion of Limburgh: Argent, a lion rampant double queued gules ducally crowned or. Jacquetta’s father was a descendant of the Counts and Dukes of Limburg whose arms these are. The cadet branch of Luxemburg placed the red lion on a field of silver and blue bars. With the extinction of the senior line Count Peter’s branch assumed the original Limburg arms
• 2: de St Pol (Châtillon): Gules, three pales vair a chief or
• 3: de Brienne (Counts of Jaffa, &c.) Azure semee of billets or a lion rampant of the second.
• 4: "Sicily", arms of w:Tancred, King of Sicily (d.1194). Coat of arms of the House of Hauteville. The House of Hauteville (Italian: Altavilla) was a Norman family originally of seigneurial rank from the Cotentin. The Hautevilles rose to prominence through their part in the Norman conquest of southern Italy. By 1130, one of their members, Roger II, was made the first King of Sicily. His male-line descendants ruled Sicily until 1194.
• 5: LUSIGNAN/CYPRUS: Barry of eight argent and azure, a lion rampant gules (crowned or). The claim to the Kingdom of Cyprus is the most tenuous of all the Woodville quarterings. With the extinction of the legitimate line of the Kings of Cyprus the Republic of Venice had a plan to purchase the claims of Charlotte de Lusignan, Queen of Cyprus (1444-1487) (the eldest and only surviving daughter of King John II of Cyprus and Helena Palaiologina) and Catarina Cornaro, former Queens of Cyprus, and cede them to Anthony Woodville 2nd Earl Rivers the brother of Elizabeth. The plan came to nothing when Anthony died. These arms are very similar to those of the Counts of Luxemburg. The key differences being the lion has only one tail and (usually) no crown. The arms of Lusignan were originally Barry argent and gules (de Valence whose arms appear in those of Pembroke was a cadet branch) to this was added a lion rampant. According to Gelre’s Wapenboeck (1334-72) the lion was crowned.
• 6: County of Champagne
• 7: Kingdom of Jerusalem
• 8: Double headed eagle with orb inscribed IC XC NI KA or NIKA: Jesus Christ and NIKA is Conquers = Jesus Christ Conquers. Komnenos (Emperors at Constantinople) Gules, a double-headed eagle displayed crowned or in chief a consecrated wafer duly marked argent. Attributed arms of John Doukas Komnenos (1128-1176), a son of Andronikos Komnenos, son of Byzantine Emperor John II Komnenos.
• 9: Gules, a cross quarter-pierced ermine (Coats of arms of the Duchy of Athens / de la Roche ?) Jacquette's paternal grandmother was w:Margaret, Countess of Brienne, the eldest daughter of Louis of Enghien, Count of Brienne and Conversano, Lord of Enghien, Titular Duke of Athens. Louis of Enghien married Giovanna of Sanseverino, and they had four daughters: Margaret, Yolanda, Isabella, and Helena. On his death, at Conversano, on March 17, 1394, his titles were inherited by his eldest daughterw:Margaret, Countess of Brienne (born 1365). In 1380, Margaret married John of Luxembourg, Lord of Beauvoir (1370–1397), son of Guy of Luxembourg and Mahaut of Châtillon, by whom she had issue, including Peter I of Luxembourg, Count of St. Pol, of Brienne and of Conversano.
• 10: Baux: Gules, a star of eight points argent (should be a star of sixteen points ?) Jacquetta’s mother was Margaret daughter of Francis of Baux Duke of Andria. The star is usually shown with straight arms, Queens’ sometimes shows it as an estoile (with wavy arms).
• 11: URSINS / ORSINI: Bendy argent and gules, on a chief argent fimbriated in base or a rose gules barbed and seeded proper. Margaret of Baux was the daughter of Francis Duke of Andria and Sueva daughter of Nicolo Orsini Count of Nola. The Orsini (Ursins is a corruption of the name) were a powerful Roman family. The arms of Orsini are sometimes shown as gules three bends argent. In addition a green snake sometimes appears on the gold fillet under the rose.

Genealogy

Text from Transactions of the Historic Society of Lancashire and Cheshire for the year 1855, pp.5-6  :

Maria Komnena (w:Maria Komnene, Queen of Jerusalem), one of the daughters and co-heirs of the last mentioned John (w:John Doukas Komnenos) (John Doukas Komnenos (1128 – September 1176) was a son of Andronikos Komnenos. Through his father, he was a grandson of Byzantine Emperor John II Komnenos. He was doux (military governor) of Cyprus from 1155 until his death), the head of that highly gifted race, married in 1164 (and not in 1167, as Ducrange says), Amauri, King of Jerusalem (w:Amalric of Jerusalem), the half-brother of Geoffrey Plantagenet, who was father of our Henry II. Isabel, the only child of King Amauri and the Komnenian princess, was married three times, her third husband being Henry, Count of Champagne, jure nxoris King of Jerusalem. Alice, the heir of Henry and Isabel, married Hugh de Lusignan, King of Cyprus, who also styled himself King of Jerusalem. When his grandson, Hugh II., died childless in 1253, the representation of the family was carried on by the issue of the daughters of Hugh I., of whom the younger, Mary (" a wondrous good lady," according to de Joinville), married Walter de Brienne, Count of Jaffa, who was taken prisoner by the Saracens and murdered by them in 1245, because he refused to give up Jaffa for his ransom. He was the son of Walter Count de Brienne (w:Walter III, Count of Brienne (d.1205)) and Mary (sic) (w:Elvira of Sicily (d.1231), a member of the House of Hauteville) the daughter and heir of Tancred (w:Tancred, King of Sicily (d.1194)), King of Sicily ; and his uncle, John de Brienne (w:John of Brienne (d.1237)), King of Jerusalem and eventually Emperor at Constantinople, was one of the heroes of the thirteenth century, and is well known to all readers of the history of that period. It would be interesting to linger over the details of the history of the great Crusading families of I.usignan and de Brienne, but this paper is genealogical and not historical, and must keep itself within bounds, lest our brook (like that of the Son of Sirach) should become a river, and our river become a sea. We must pass on, therefore, and merely mention that Hugh de Brienne, the son of Walter Count of Jaffa and Mary de Lusignan, married Isabel de la Roche, the heiress of the Dukes of Athens of that name — a dynasty that will not have been forgotten by readers of Gibbon. Walter, Duke of Athens, the son of Hugh and Isabel, was killed by the Catalans in 1 3 II, leaving a son Walter (who was killed at the Battle of Poitiers and left no issue), and a daughter Isabel, who married Walter d'Enghien. Their son Louis, titular Duke of Athens, left a daughter and heir, Margaret, who married John of Luxemburg, grandson of Guy of Luxemburg and Matilda, the heiress of the Chatillons, Counts of S. Pol. Peter, Count of S. Pol, the son and heir of John of Luxemburg, became the husband of Margaret, the daughter (and eventually the heir) of Francis de Baux, Duke of Andria. The House of Baux was a very ancient and powerful family in Provence, and claimed descent from the Balti, the kingly race of the Visigoths : one branch of it held the Principality of Orange till 1393, and from it all the later princes of Orange were descended ; the other branch (which was the elder line of the family) held the Duchy of Andria till the fifteenth century. The mother of Margaret de Baux was Justine Orsini, an heiress of the Roman family of thai name. At the head of the nobility of the Eternal City stood for centuries the great houses of Orsini and Colonna, rivals in power and equals in renown,— the latter devoted to the interests of the empire, the former ever faithful to the Papacy ; indeed three of its members have sat in the Chair of S. Peter, viz., Celestine IIL (1191-1198), Nicholas IIL (12771280), and Benedict XIIL (17 24-1 730). Even cursory students of Italian history know something of the Orsini, and the race, that fortified the ruined theatre of Marcellus as their chief stronghold, and that commenced the building of the Vatican, still flourishes in Rome, where its head has the rank and prerogatives of a foreign prince, whilst he claims the title of " cousin of " the king" at three of the courts of Europe. But we may not trace the history of the houses of de Baux and Orsini any more than that of the Lusignans and de Briennes. Jacquetta of Luxemburg was the daughter and heir of Peter, Count of S. Pol, by Margaret de Baux, and thus passed on to her representatives the twelve quarterings of which we have spoken.

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Title: Transactions of the Historic Society of Lancashire and Cheshire for the year ..
Year: 1855 (1850s)
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s kinsfolk presumedto rival the Nevills, whose power at that time almost or quiteovershadowed the Plantagenets; this rivalry brought poor LordRivers to the block, and left Jacquetta a widow for the secondtime. Genealogists, interested in Lancashire families, may wellbe grateful to Sir Richard for aspiring to the hand of Jacquettaof Luxemburg, for the shield that she (being her fathers heir)passed on to her children, consisted of twelve illustrious quarter-ings, which now find a place in the achievements of four^ famiUes closely connected with this county, viz.,—\j^^ I. Grey, Earl of Stamford (and, until 1882, of Warrington);J \^^ 2. Egerton, Earl of EUesmere; ;. , 3. Woodcock, of Newburgh and Wigan ; 4. Stanley, Earl of Derby.Of these four families, the first is not resident within the county,but holds land in it, and may therefore be reckoned as a Lanca-shire family for the purposes of tliis paper; the second has beenidentified for some generations with the development of the y ^ I
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^K€ fW€IiV€ QVSRMRIIie^ 1. LUXEMBURG. 2. CHATILLON. 3. BRIENNE. 4. SICILY. 5. LUSIGNAN. 6. CHAMPAGNE. 7. JERUSALEM. 8. KOMNENOS. 9. DE LA ROCHE 10. DE BAUX. 11. ORSINI. 12. LUXEMBURG. ^•- Foreign Quarterings in Lancashire Shields. 3 industries of the county : the third is a cadet branch of theWoodcocks, of Cuerden Green, in the parish of Leyland, whoseland passed in the direct male line from the reign of Henry III.to the end of the last century, when an heiress transmitted it tothe Winstanleys (now of Chaigeley Manor, near Clitheroe), bywhom it was sold : of the fourth, the Stanleys, it is as needlessto give any further description, as it was unnecessary for Mosesto define the fourth branch of the River of Paradise, any morethan by stating its well-known name. Jacquettas twelve quarterings are these :— 1. Luxemburg (Counts of S. Pol).—Argent, a lion rampant with the tail nowed Gules, armed and crowned Or,langued Azure, a label of three points of the last. 2. Chatillon (Cou

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