This article contains a listing of notable French royal mistresses.

Chlothar I

  • Waldrada, Princess of the Lombards
  • Arnegundis

Charibert I

  • Merofleda
  • Clothilde
  • Marcovefa
  • Theogilda

Chilperic I

Dagobert I

  • Regintrude of Austrasia
  • Berthilde

Charlemagne

  • Gersuinda of the Saxons
  • Amaltrud of Vienne
  • Ethelind
  • Sigrade
  • Madelgard
  • Regina
  • Landrade des Herbages
  • Adelindus

Louis the Pious

  • Theodelinde of Sens

Louis the Stammerer

  • Luitgrade of Saxony
  • Adelheid of Paris

Charles the Simple

  • Edgiva of Kent
  • Frederuna von Ringleheim

Philip I

Louis VI

  • Marie de Breuillet

Louis X

  • Unknown woman, with whom he had a daughter, Eudeline.[1]

Philip VI

  • Béatrice de la Berruère (1294–1348)

Charles V

Charles VI

Charles VII

Louis XI

Francis I

Official mistresses (maîtresse-en-titre)

Unofficial mistresses (petite maîtresse)

Henry II

Official mistresses (maîtresse-en-titre)

Unofficial mistresses (petite maîtresse)

Charles IX

Unofficial mistresses (petite maîtresse)

Henry III

Unofficial mistresses (petite maîtresse)

Henry IV

This list includes historically recognised and popularly attributed mistresses:[11]

Official mistresses (maîtresse-en-titre)

Unofficial mistresses (petite maîtresse)

  • Fleurette de Nérac,[12] vers 1571–1572, fille d’un jardinier de Nérac
  • Charlotte de Sauve (c. 1551–1617), mistress in 1572.[13]
  • Bretine de Duras, mistress 1573–1574
  • Louise de la Béraudière, called « La belle Rouet », mistress in 1575, maid of honour of Queen Margaret
  • Louise Borré, mistress 1575–1576, daughter of a royal notary. She gave him a son, Hervé (1576–1643)[14]
  • Jeanne de Tignonville, mistress 1577–1578
  • Victoire de Ayala, mistress in 1578, maid of honour of Catherine de' Medici
  • Mlle Rebours, mistress in 1579, maid of honour of Queen Margaret
  • Mlle de Montagu, mistress in 1579
  • Mme d’Allous, mistress in 1579
  • Aimée Le Grand, mistress in 1579
  • Arnaudine, mistress in 1579
  • La garce de Goliath », mistress in 1579
  • Catherine de Luc, mistress in 1579. She died of hunger when Henry abandoned her, leaving behind their child.[15]
  • Anne de Cambefort, mistress in 1579. She committed suicide by jumping out of a window after Henry left her[15]
  • Françoise de Montmorency (1566–6 December 1641), mistress 1579–1581, maid of honour of Queen Margaret. She had one stillborn daughter with the king in 1581.
  • Diane d'Andouins, called « la belle Corisande » (c. 1554 – c. 1584)
  • Esther Imbert (or Ysambert), mistress 1587–1588. She had two sons with Henry.
  • Martine, rochelaise, en 1587. She had one child with Henry.
  • Antoinette de Pons (1570–1632), marquess of Guercheville
  • Catherine de Verdun[16]
  • Mme Quelin, mistress in 1598
  • Isabelle Potier, mistress 1598–1599
  • Mlle Clein, mistress in 1599
  • La Glandée, mistress in 1599
  • Marie-Françoise de La Bourdaisière, sister of Gabrielle d’Estrées, mistress in 1599
  • Jacqueline de Bueil (c. 1580–1651)
  • Charlotte des Essarts (c. 1580–1651), mistress 1607–1609
  • Angélique Paulet, mistress in 1610

Louis XIV

Official mistresses (maîtresse-en-titre)

Unofficial mistresses (petite maîtresse)

Louis XV

Official mistresses (maîtresse-en-titre)

Unofficial mistresses (petite maîtresse)

After 1755, unofficial lovers of the king who did not belong to the nobility were often kept at the Parc-aux-Cerfs.[17]

  • 1738: NN, a butcher's daughter in Versailles
  • 1738: Thérèse-Eulalie de Beaupoil de Saint-Aulaire (1705–1739), marquise de Beuvron
  • 1738: Marie-Anne de Vougny (1716–1783) Madame Amelot
  • 1748: Anne-Marie de Montmorency-Luxembourg (1729–1760), princesse de Robecq.
  • 1748: Marie-Anne-Françoise de Noailles, comtesse de La Marck (1719–1793).
  • 1749: Elisabeth-Charlotte Huguet de Sémonville (1715–1784), comtesse d'Estrades.
  • 1749: Marie-Françoise de Carbonnel de Canisy (1725–1796), marquise d’Antin puis comtesse de Forcalquier.
  • 1750: Alexandrine Sublet d'Heudicourt, (1721–1800) marquise de Belsunce.
  • 1750: Françoise de Chalus, duchesse de Narbonne-Lara, première femme de chambre de la duchesse de Parme (1734–1821).
  • 1750–1750: Irène du Buisson de Longpré (d. 1767)
  • 1750–1751: Marie Geneviève Radix de Sainte-Foy (1729–1809)
  • 1752: Mlle Trusson, femme de chambre de la dauphine Marie-Josèphe de Saxe.
  • 1752: Jeanne-Marguerite de Niquet (fl. 1732–1795) dite Mlle de Niquet.
  • 1752: Mlle de Saint-André
  • 1752–1755: Thérèse Guerbois
  • 1752–1752: Charlotte Rosalie de Choiseul-Beaupré (1733–1753)
  • 1752–1754: Marie-Louise O'Murphy (1737–1815)
  • 1755–1755: Françoise de Chalus (1734–1821), duchess of Narbonne-Lara
  • 1755–1757: Brigitte O'Murphy (1729–1793)
  • 1755: Mlle Fouquet, daughter of a hairdresser
  • 1755: Mlle Robert
  • 1755–1759: Mlle David
  • 1755–1759: Mlle Armory, « Mimi», daughter of a ballet dancer
  • 1756: Gabrielle-Charlotte Françoise d‘Hénin-Liétard (1729–1809), vicomtesse de Cambis, née princesse de Chimay
  • 1756: Dorothée, daughter of a water carrier in Strasbourg.
  • 1756: Mlle Selin
  • 1757–1757: Marie Anne de Coislin (1732–1817)
  • 1758: Marie-Louise de Marny (fl. 1737 – fl. 1793), Madame de Giambone
  • 1759: Marie-Madeleine Couppier de Romans, Madame Varnier
  • 1759–1762: Marguerite-Catherine Haynault (1736–1823), marquise of Montmelas
  • 1760–1763: Lucie Madeleine d'Estaing (1743–1826)
  • 1760–1765: Anne Couppier de Romans (1737–1808), baroness of Meilly-Coulonge
  • 1762–1765: Louise-Jeanne Tiercelin de La Colleterie (1746–1779), called Madame de Bonneval
  • 1763–1765: Anne Thoinard de Jouy (1739–1825)
  • 1763: Marie-Françoise-Marguerite de Talleyrand-Périgord (1727–1775), comtesse de Périgord
  • 1764: Béatrix de Choiseul-Stainville, duchesse de Gramont (1730–1794)
  • 1764: Louise Jeanne Marie de Courtarvel de Pezé (1733–1789), marquise de Dreux-Brézé
  • 1763–1765: Anne Thoynard de Jouy, comtesse d’Esparbès de Lussan (1739–1825)
  • 1765: Marie-Adélaïde de Bullioud (1743–1793), comtesse de Séran
  • 1768–1768: Catherine Éléonore Bénard (1740–1769)
  • 1768–1768: Marie Thérèse Françoise Boisselet (1731–1800)
  • 1768: Jeanne-Marguerite Salvetat (1748–1838), actress
  • 1771: "demoiselle de Smith"
  • 1771: Madame Bèche, wife of a musician of the royal chapel
  • 1771: Françoise-Marie-Antoinette de Saucerotte (1756–1815), Mademoiselle Raucourt, actress
  • 1772: Madame d’Amerval
  • 1773: Rose-Marie-Hélène de Tournon (1757–1782), vicomtesse du Barry
  • 1774–1774: Albertine-Elisabeth Pater (1742–1817)
  • Date unknown: Marthe-Antoinette Aubry de Vatan (1720 – after 1777)
  • Date unknown: Mme de Grandis, Mme de Martinville, Mlle de Ville, courtesan
  • Date unknown: Mme de Beaunier, Mlle de Malignan, Mme de Salis

Napoleon I

Louis XVIII

Official mistresses (maîtresse-en-titre)

Unofficial mistresses (petite maîtresse)

Charles X

Napoleon III

See also

Notes

  1. ↑ "Although Biette Cassinel has been attached occasionally to Charles V, no concrete evidence for a relationship exists."[2]
  2. ↑ "..concerning the relations which may have existed between Charles V and the mother[Biette Cassinel] of Jean de Montaigu, are not justified by any proof by any reference.."[3]

References

  1. 1 2 Gaude-Ferragu 2016, p. 34.
  2. ↑ Adams & Adams 2020, p. 27.
  3. ↑ Delachenal 1909, p. 111.
  4. ↑ Nicolle 2004, p. 18.
  5. ↑ Chronique normande de Pierre Cochon, bailli de Rouen.
  6. ↑ Wellman 2013, p. 25.
  7. ↑ Wellman 2013, p. 61.
  8. ↑ Kendall 1971, p. 71.
  9. ↑ Wellman 2013, p. 327.
  10. 1 2 3 4 Knecht 2016, p. 137.
  11. ↑ secrets, Histoire et. "Histoire et Secrets - découvrir l'histoire de France et du monde - Liste des maîtresses d'Henri IV le Vert-Galant". Archived from the original on 2010-12-08. Retrieved 2016-05-14.
  12. ↑ Yves Cazaux, Henri IV: Les horizons du règne, Paris : A. Michel, 1986. ISBN 9782226026101, p. 189.
  13. ↑ Anne Danclos, La vie tragique de la reine Margot, Fernand Lanore, 1996. ISBN 9782851570475, p. 102.
  14. ↑ Histoire de Mésanger de Gilbert Chéron - Tome II, pp. 223–224
  15. 1 2 Source : André Castelot, Henri IV le passionné
  16. ↑ "L'Artiste". Aux bureaux de L'Artiste. 1 January 1814 – via Google Books.
  17. ↑ Patrick Wald Lasowski, L'Amour au temps des libertins, Editions First-Gründ, 2011

Sources

  • Adams, Tracy; Adams, Christine (2020). The Creation of the French Royal Mistress: From Agnès Sorel to Madame Du Barry. The Pennsylvania State University Press.
  • Delachenal, Roland (1909). Histoire de Charles V. Vol. I. Picard.
  • Gaude-Ferragu, Murielle (2016). Queenship in Medieval France, 1300-1500. Translated by Krieger, Angela. Palgrave Macmillan.
  • Kendall, Paul Murray (1971). Louis XI: The Universal Spider. Compton Printing Ltd.
  • Knecht, Robert J. (2016). Hero or Tyrant? Henry III, King of France, 1574-89. Routledge.
  • Nicolle, David (2004). Poitiers 1356:The Capture of a King. Osprey.
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