Anne and Suzanne’s dynastic foremothers established their precedence in gendered political acuity and psychological discernment in a variety of ways; in diverse contexts; and as a result of variable situational factors and dynastic imperatives. Arising from the polyglot, multi-ethnic, and conglomerate crown of Aragon and the French house of Valois, moving in both directions over the Pyrenees, there are illustrative examples to contemplate particularly if we consider the Iberian tradition of powerful queen-lieutenancies and corporate rulership. There is skilled stateswomanship to discover in Anne’s third-great-grandmother Elionor de Sicília, in her twice-great-grandmother, Violant de Bar, and in her great-grandmother Yolande d’Aragon, whom Anne’s father, Louis XI, admired for her political prudence and her ability to maintain a cool and pragmatic head amidst the chaos of the closing stages of the Hundred Years War. It is also there in Louis’s mother, Anne’s grandmother, Marie d’Anjou, dismissed arbitrarily by too many in the past. Anne’s mother, Charlotte de Savoie, queen-consort of France, worked behind the scenes in mediation whilst her maternal grandmother and namesake Anne de Lusignan, duchess of Savoy, and her aunt Bona di Savoia, duchess of Milan, were women of political ability and proactive rulership. Anne’s paternal aunts Yolande, duchess of Savoy, and Madeleine, regent of Navarre, provide additional evidence of intra-/inter-dynastic stateswomanship. Keen huntresses for the most part, skilled chess players all, these women were committed bibliophiles, literary, religious, and cultural patrons and dedicated and meticulous educators of their children and the other young people fostered within their households. Opening with a discussion concerning the counts of Barcelona and how they became the kings of Aragon by dint of strategic political marriage, this chapter focuses upon Anne’s Iberian inheritance, whilst the next chapter explores how it came to be translated back to the kingdom of France by the well-travelled route of strategic political marriage.