I was curious about Marguerite and I found this:
Margaret of Lorraine (born 1463 at the castle of Vaudémont, Lorraine; died at Argentan, Brittany, 2 November 1521) was Duchess d'Alençon, and a nun of the order of Poor Clares. She was beatified in 1921[1].
The daughter of Ferri de Vaudimont and of Yolande d'Anjou, Margaret became an orphan at an early age. She was brought up at Aix-en-Provence, by René of Anjou, her grandfather. The latter dying in 1480 she was sent back to Lorraine to her brother, René II, who gave her in marriage at Paris, in 1488, to the Duke d'Alençon.
Left a widow in 1492 she busied herself in the administration of her duchy and the education of her children. When she was relieved of the duties imposed upon her by her position she decided to renounce the world and retired to Mortagne, to a monastery of religious women who followed the rule of Saint Elizabeth. Later having brought with her to Argentan some of these nuns she founded there another monastery which she placed, with the authorization of the pope, under the rule of Saint Clare, modified by the Minor Observants.
She herself took the religious habit in this house and made her vows on 11 October, 1520. On 2 November, 1521, after having lived an austere life for a year, she died in her modest cell, at the age of sixty-two. Her body, preserved in the monastery of the Poor Clares, was transferred when that monastery was suppressed to the church of St. Germain d'Argentan. In 1793 it was profaned and thrown into the common burying place.
The memory of Margaret of Lorraine is preserved in the "Martyrologium Franciscanum" and in the "Martyrologium gallicanum". After an invitation made by the bishop of Séez, Jacques Camus de Pontcarri, Louis XIII asked Pope Urban VIII to order a canonical inquiry into the virtues and the miracles of the Duchess.
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1. ^ Patron Saints Index: Time Line: 1921
This article incorporates text from the entry Blessed Margaret of Lorraine in the public-domain Catholic Encyclopedia of 1913.
One unusual thing about her Grandfather and Mother is that they are "reputed" to have been Grand Masters of the Scion but this is very controversial as these lists were then supposedly a perpetuated fraud! Anyway it made her family more interesting.......
The mythical Priory of Sion was supposedly led by a "Nautonnier", an Old French word for a navigator, which means Grand Master in their internal esoteric nomenclature. The following list of Grand Masters is derived from the Dossiers Secrets d'Henri Lobineau compiled by Pierre Plantard under the nom de plume of "Philippe Toscan du Plantier" in 1967. All those named on this list had died before that date. All but two are also found on lists of alleged “Imperators” (supreme heads) and “distinguished members” of the Ancient Mystical Order Rosae Crucis which circulated in France at the time when Plantard was in touch with this Rosicrucian Order. Most of those named share the common thread of being known for having an interest in the occult or heresy.[13]
Leonardo da Vinci, alleged to be the Priory of Sion's 12th Grand Master
The Dossiers Secrets asserted that the Priory of Sion and the Knights Templar always shared the same Grand Master until a schism occurred during the "Cutting of the elm" incident in 1188. Following that event, the Grand Masters of the Priory of Sion are listed as being:
1. Jean de Gisors (1188–1220)
2. Marie de Saint-Clair (1220–1266)
3. Guillaume de Gisors (1266–1307)
4. Edouard de Bar (1307–1336)
5. Jeanne de Bar (1336–1351)
6. Jean de Saint-Clair (1351–1366)
7. Blanche d'Evreux (1366–1398)
# Bradley, Ed (2006). "The Priory Of Sion: Is The "Secret Organization" Fact Or Fiction?". Retrieved on 2008-07-16.
# ^ a b "Les Archives du Prieuré de Sion", Le Charivari, N°18, 1973. Containing a transcript of the 1956 Statutes of the Priory of Sion.
# ^ J. Cailleboite, "A Sous-Cassan et aux pervenches un missionnaire regarde la vie ouvriere", Circuit, Numéro spécial, October 1956.
# ^ Pierre Jarnac, Les Archives de Rennes-le-Château, Tome II, Editions Belisane, 1988,
