Peter II, Count of La Marche

Coat-of-arms of Peter II, Count of La Marche.

Peter of Bourbon-La Marche (1342 – 1362 in Lyon) was the eldest son of James I, Count of La Marche^[1] and Jeanne of Chatillon, and was a French prince du sang.

He was knighted by his father shortly before the Battle of Brignais, in which both father and son fought.^[2] Both were mortally wounded during the battle,^[2] but were carried away by their soldiers to Lyon. He survived his father only a short while, and was succeeded by his brother John.

References

1. Thompson 1909, p. 527.
2. Villalon & Kagay 2017, p. 116.

Sources

• Villalon, Andrew; Kagay, Donald (2017). To Win and Lose a Medieval Battle: Nájera (April 3, 1367), A Pyrrhic Victory for the Black Prince. Leiden: Brill. ISBN 978-90-04-34317-7.
• Thompson, James Westfall (1909). The Wars of Religion in France, 1559-1576. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press.

French nobility
Preceded by James I	Count of La Marche 1362	Succeeded by John I