Yolande, Duchess of Lorraine

Yolande
Duchess of Lorraine
A 17th-century drawing of a (now-lost) 15th-century stained-glass window depicting Yolande
Born	2 November 1428 Nancy
Died	23 March 1483(1483-03-23) (aged 54) Nancy
Spouse	Frederick II, Count of Vaudémont ​ ​ (m. 1445; died 1470)​
Issue	René II, Duke of Lorraine Nicolas, Lord of Joinville Jeanne, Duchess of Anjou Yolande, Landgravine of Hesse Marguerite, Duchess of Alençon
Names Yolande de Lorraine
House	Valois-Anjou
Father	René, King of Naples
Mother	Isabella, Duchess of Lorraine

Yolande (2 November 1428 in Nancy – 23 March 1483 in Nancy) was Duchess of Lorraine (1473) and Bar (1480). She was the daughter of Isabella, Duchess of Lorraine, and René of Anjou (King of Naples, Duke of Anjou, Bar and Lorraine, Count of Provence).^[1] Though she was nominally in control of major territories, she ceded her power and titles to her husband and her son. In addition, her younger sister was Margaret of Anjou, Queen of England.

In the 19th century, a romanticised version of her early life was popularised by the play King René's Daughter by Henrik Hertz, in which she is portrayed as a beautiful blind princess living in an isolated garden paradise. It was later adapted to Tchaikovsky's opera Iolanta. There is no evidence that she was ever blind.