Louise de Montmorency
Louise de Montmorency | |
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 Louise de Montmorency depicted on a stained glass window in the Saint-Martin de Montmorency collegiate church, around 1525. | |
| Born | 1496 |
| Died | 1547 (aged 50–51) |
| Spouse(s) | Ferri de Mailly Gaspard I de Coligny |
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Louise de Montmorency (1496–1547) was a French aristocrat and courtier. She served as Première dame d'honneur from 1530 to 1535 to the Queen of France, Eleanor of Austria, spouse to Francis I of France. She also played an important role within patronage and as a supporter of Calvinism.
Life
She was the daughter of Guillaume de Montmorency and Anne Pot and younger sister of Anne de Montmorency, Constable of France.[1]
In 1530, she was appointed Première dame d'honneur to the new queen, Eleanor of Austria, a new court office installed just a few years earlier, which made her responsible for all of the other ladies-in-waiting of the queen.[2] She retired in 1535 and was replaced by Mme de Givry.[3]
She had considerable patronage power independently of her husband,[4][5] and had an important role in spreading the influence of Calvinism in France in the 16th Century.[6]
Marriages
Louise married her first husband, Ferri de Mailly, in 1511.[1] This marriage produced a daughter;
- Madeleine de Mailly.[1]
Ferry died in 1513, and Louise remarried in 1514 to Gaspard I de Coligny.[7] From her second marriage she had three sons, all of whom played important roles in the first period of the French Wars of Religion:
Family tree
Notes
- ^ a b c d e Moreton-Macdonald 1915, p. 39.
- ^ Shimizu 1970, p. 22.
- ^ Roche 2010.
- ^ Kettering 1989, p. 817-841.
- ^ Davies 2002, p. 665-685.
- ^ Noble 2002.
- ^ a b Holt 1999, p. 219.
Sources
- Davies, Joan (2002). "The Montmorencys and the Abbey of Sainte Trinité, Caen: Politics, Profit and Reform" (PDF). The Journal of Ecclesiastical History. 53 (4): 665–685. doi:10.1017/S002204690200427X.
- Holt, Mack P. (1999). The French Wars of Religion, 1562-1629. Cambridge University Press.
- Kettering, Sharon (1989). "The patronage power of early modern French noblewomen". The Historical Journal. 32, No. 4 (Dec.) (4): 817–841. doi:10.1017/S0018246X00015727. JSTOR 2639686.
- Moreton-Macdonald, John Ronald (1915). A History of France. Vol. 2. The Macmillan Company.
- Noble, Graham (2002). "The Development of Protestantism in 16th Century France". History Review.
- Roche, Aline (2010). "Une perle de pris : la maison de la reine Eléonore d'Autriche". Cour de France.fr (in French). Archived from the original on 2013-12-03.
- Shimizu, J. (1970). Conflict of Loyalties, Politics and Religion in the Career of Gaspard de Coligny, Admiral of France, 1519-1572. Librairie Droz.