Louise de Montmorency

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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.
Born1496
Died1547(1547-00-00) (aged 50–51)
Spouse(s)Ferri de Mailly
Gaspard I de Coligny
Children
Parents
  • Guillaume de Montmorency (father)
  • Anne Pot (mother)

Louise de Montmorency (1496–1547) was a French aristocrat and courtier. She served as Première dame d'honneur to the queen of France, Eleanor of Austria, from 1530 to 1535. 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, , 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[]

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Coligny family tree
Guillaume de MontmorencyAnne Pot
Gaspard ILouise de MontmorencyAnne de MontmorencyMadeleine of Savoy
Charlotte de LavalGaspard IIOdetFrançoisFrançois de
Montmorency		HenriCharles de Montmorency-Damville
LouiseFrançoisCharles [fr]
Frederick Henry,
Prince of Orange		Gaspard IIIGuy XX de Laval
William II of Orange [fr]HenrietteAnneGeorge II of Württemberg-Montbéliard
William III of EnglandEleonoreLeopold
Notes:

Notes[]

  1. ^ Jump up to: a b c d e Moreton-Macdonald 1915, p. 39.
  2. ^ Shimizu 1970, p. 22.
  3. ^ Roche 2010.
  4. ^ Kettering 1989, p. 817-841.
  5. ^ Davies 2002, p. 665-685.
  6. ^ Noble 2002.
  7. ^ Jump up to: 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. Vol. 32, No. 4 (Dec.) (4): 817–841. doi:10.1017/S0018246X00015727. JSTOR 2639686. |volume= has extra text (help)
  • Moreton-Macdonald, John Ronald (1915). A History of France. Vol. 2. The Macmillan Company. |volume= has extra text (help)
  • 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.


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