Louise de Montmorency

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.

Louise de Montmorency
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)

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
  1. 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. 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.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
  • Holt, Mack P. (1999). The French Wars of Religion, 1562-1629. Cambridge University Press.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
  • 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.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
  • Moreton-Macdonald, John Ronald (1915). A History of France. Vol. 2. The Macmillan Company.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
  • Noble, Graham (2002). "The Development of Protestantism in 16th Century France". History Review.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
  • 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.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
  • Shimizu, J. (1970). Conflict of Loyalties, Politics and Religion in the Career of Gaspard de Coligny, Admiral of France, 1519-1572. Librairie Droz.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)


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