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Jacques II de Bourbon, comte de la Marche et de Castres
b.1370
d.24 Sep 1438 Besançon, Doubs, Franche-Comté, France
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m. 1364
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m. 14 Sep 1406
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m. 10 Aug 1415
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James II of Bourbon-La Marche (1370 – 1438 in Besançon) was count of La Marche. He was captured at the battle of Nicopolis in 1396, later being ransomed. In 1403, James led an attack on English soil and burned Plymouth. He married Joanna of Naples in 1415, and was largely unpopular being imprisoned then forced to leave the kingdom of Naples in 1419. James relinquished his titles and became a monk in 1435. He died in 1438.
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