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{{Infobox royalty
| name = Catherine of France
| title = [[Countess of Montpensier]]
| image = Charles5 familie.jpg
| caption =
| spouse = [[John de Valois, Count of Montpensier]]
| issue =
| full name =
| house = [[House of Valois|Valois]]
| father = [[Charles V of France]]
| mother = [[Joanna of Bourbon]]
| birth_date = 4 February 1378
| birth_place = [[Paris]]
| death_date = November {{death year and age|1388|1378}}
| death_place =
}}

'''Catherine of France''' (4 February 1378 – November 1388) was a [[princess]] of [[Kingdom of France|France]] as the daughter of [[Charles V, King of France]], and became the [[Countess of Montpensier]] as the wife of [[John of Berry, Count of Montpensier]].

== Life ==
Catherine of France was born in [[Paris]] on 4 February 1378 as the ninth child and fifth daughter of [[Charles V, King of France]] ("Charles the Wise") and his wife Queen [[Joanna of Bourbon]].{{sfn|Guicciardini|1969|p=136}} Catherine had eight older siblings, only two or three of whom were still alive at the time of her birth: [[Dauphin of France|Dauphin]] [[Charles VI of France|Charles]] (born 1368), [[Louis I, Duke of Orléans|Louis of Orleans]] (born 1372) and maybe John (born 1375). King Charles V died only two years later in 1380, making Catherine's oldest living brother, the 12 year old Dauphin Charles, succeed their father as King Charles VI of France.

In 1386, at the age of eight, Catherine married [[John of Berry, Count of Montpensier]], also known as John of Valois, who was between the ages of nine and eleven. He was the oldest living son and heir of [[John, Duke of Berry]] ("John the Magnificent"), and Catherine's first cousin through their shared descent from [[John II, King of France]].

In November 1388, Catherine died at the age of 10 of unknown causes. Her death meant that only two of King Charles V's nine children survived to adulthood and produced offspring: the reigning [[Charles VI, King of France]] (who would become the ancestor of the main line of successive Valois kings) and [[Louis I, Duke of Orléans]] (who would become the ancestor of the Valois-Orleans cadet branch). As Catherine was only a child at her death, she was unable to have any children with her husband the Count of Montpensier. Two years later Catherine's widower married [[Anne de Bourbon]] before his premature death in 1397, predeceasing his father the Duke of Berry.

==Ancestors==
{{ahnentafel
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|1= 1. '''Catherine of Valois'''
|2= 2. [[Charles V of France]]
|3= 3. [[Joanna of Bourbon]]
|4= 4. [[John II of France]]
|5= 5. [[Bonne of Bohemia]]
|6= 6. [[Peter I, Duke of Bourbon]]
|7= 7. [[Isabella of Valois (1313-1388)|Isabella of Valois]]
|8= 8. [[Philip VI of France]]
|9= 9. [[Joan the Lame of Burgundy|Joan the Lame]]
|10= 11. [[John I of Bohemia]]
|11= 11. [[Elisabeth of Bohemia (1292–1330)|Elisabeth of Bohemia]]
|12= 12. [[Louis I, Duke of Bourbon]]
|13= 13. [[Mary of Avesnes]]
|14= 14. [[Charles of Valois]]
|15= 15. [[Mahaut of Châtillon]]
}}

==References==
{{reflist}}

==Sources==
*{{cite book |title=The History of Italy |first=Francesco |last=Guicciardini |publisher=Princeton University Press |translator-first=Sidney |translator-last=Alexander |year=1969 }}

[[Category:1378 births]]
[[Category:1388 deaths]]
[[Category:House of Valois]]
[[Category:French princesses]]
[[Category:Countesses of Montpensier]]
[[Category:14th-century French people]]
[[Category:14th-century French women]]
[[Category:Daughters of kings]]
[[Category:French royalty who died as children]]
[[Category:14th-century countesses consort]]

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