ST. URBAIN, Ferdinand de: Lorraine, ca. 1720, Bronze, 46 mm
Obv: Bust (r)   FRIDER. I. COM. VAD. IOH. I. LOT. DVC. FILIVS. ET. FRATER. CAROLI. II. LOT. DVCIS
Rev: Bust (r)  MARGARETA. DE. IOINVILI A. COMITISSA. VADEMONTANA.
Signed: SV
Ref: From the Series of the Dukes and Duchesses of Lorraine. Forrer V, p.310 #41; Mirnik #24;  Weiss BW766

Frederick (Ferry) of Lorraine (born 1368 and died in 1415 at the battle of Agincourt) was Count of Vaudemont. He was the son of Duke Jean I of Lorraine and younger brother of Charles II. In 1393, Frederick married Marguerite de Joinville (1354-1418) the heiress of Vaudemont and Joinville, and became Count of these lands in her right. He founded the House of Vaudemont, a junior branch of the Duchy of Lorraine.

His children were: Antoine, who succeeded as Count of Vaudemont; Isabelle, who married Philipp I of Nassau-Weilburg; and Margaret, who married Thibault II of Blamont.

Dynastic problems in the senior side made his great-grandson René of Vaudemont, Duke of Lorraine in 1473.