When Anne de Mercoeur d'Auvergne,dame de Forez was born in 1358, in Auvergne, France, her father, Beraud II Dauphin of Auvergne, was 25 and her mother, Jeanne de Forez, was 21. She married Louis II le bon de Bourbon on 27 August 1371, in France. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 2 daughters. She died on 22 September 1417, in Cleppé, Loire, Rhône-Alpes, France, at the age of 59, and was buried in Souvigny, Moulins, Allier, Auvergne, France.