List of French royal mistresses

Clovis I
  • Evochilde

Chlothar I
  • Waldrada, Princess of the Lombards
  • Valtrude 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
  • Bertrade de Montfort (c. 1070 – c. 1116): marriage not recognised by the Church

Louis VI
  • Marie de Breuillet

Louis X
  • Unknown, but had children

Philip VI
  • Béatrice de la Berruère (1294 – 1348)

Charles V
  • Biette de Cassine (c. 1340 – c. 1380)[1]
  • Unknown, mother of Oudard d'Attainville (1360 – ?).[2]

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

Henry III

Henry IV
Main article: Henry IV of France's wives and mistresses

This list includes historically recognised and popularly attributed mistresses:[5]

Official mistresses (maîtresse-en-titre)

Unofficial mistresses (petite maîtresse)
  • Fleurette de Nérac,[6] vers 1571-1572, fille d’un jardinier de Nérac
  • Charlotte de Sauve (c. 1551–1617), mistress in 1572.[7]
  • 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)[8]
  • 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.[9]
  • Anne de Cambefort, mistress in 1579. She committed suicide by jumping out of a window after Henry left her[9]
  • 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[10]
  • 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
  • Marie-Charlotte de Balzac d’Entragues, mistress 1605–1609
  • Angélique Paulet, mistress in 1610

Louis XIV

Official mistresses (maîtresse-en-titre)
  • Louise de La Vallière (1644–1710), duchess of Vaujours
  • Françoise-Athénaïs de Rochechouart de Mortemart (1640–1707), marquise of Montespan
  • Marie Angélique de Scoraille de Roussille (1661–1681), duchess of Fontanges
  • Françoise d'Aubigné (1635–1719), marquise of Maintenon

Unofficial mistresses (petite maîtresse)

Louis XV

Official mistresses (maîtresse-en-titre)
  • 1732-1742: Louise Julie de Mailly (1710–1751), countess of Mailly
  • 1739-1741: Pauline-Félicité de Mailly (1712–1741), marquise of Vintimille
  • 1742-1745: Diane-Adélaïde de Mailly (1713–1760), duchess of Lauraguais
  • 1742-1744: Marie-Anne de Mailly (1717–1744), marquise of La Tournelle, duchess of Châteauroux
  • 1745-1764: Jeanne Antoinette Poisson (1721–1764), marquise of Pompadour
  • 1769-1774: Jeanne Bécu (1743–1793), countess du Barry

Unofficial mistresses (petite maîtresse)

Napoleon I

Louis XVIII
  • Anne Nompar de Caumont, countess of Balbi, baronness of Montfaucon (when Louis XVIII was still count of Provence)
  • Zoé Talon, comtesse du Cayla (1785–1852)

Charles X

Louis Philippe I

Napoleon III

See also

References
  1. Nicolle 2004, p. 18.
  2. Chronique normande de Pierre Cochon, bailli de Rouen.
  3. Wellman 2013, p. 327.
  4. Knecht 2016, p. 137.
  5. 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.
  6. Yves Cazaux, Henri IV: Les horizons du règne, Paris : A. Michel, 1986. ISBN 9782226026101, p. 189.
  7. Anne Danclos, La vie tragique de la reine Margot, Fernand Lanore, 1996. ISBN 9782851570475, p. 102.
  8. Histoire de Mésanger de Gilbert Chéron - Tome II, pages 223-224
  9. Source : André Castelot, Henri IV le passionné
  10. "L'Artiste". Aux bureaux de L'Artiste. 1 January 1814 – via Google Books.

Sources
  • Knecht, Robert J. (2016). Hero or Tyrant? Henry III, King of France, 1574-89. Routledge.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
  • Nicolle, David (2004). Poitiers 1356:The Capture of a King. Osprey.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
  • Wellman, Kathleen (2013). Queens and Mistresses of Renaissance France. Yale University Press.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
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