Louise de Montmorency
{{Short description|French aristocrat (1496–1547)}}
{{Infobox person
| name = Louise de Montmorency
| image = Montmorency (Val-d’Oise) Saint-Martin67644 - Louise de Montmorency.JPG
| caption = Louise de Montmorency depicted on a stained glass window in the Saint-Martin de Montmorency collegiate church, around 1525.
| birth_date = 1496
| death_date = {{Death date and age|1547|6|12|1496}}
| spouse = Ferri de Mailly
Gaspard I de Coligny
| children = {{hlist|Odet|Gaspard II|Francois}}
| mother = Anne Pot
| father = Guillaume de Montmorency
}}
Louise de Montmorency (1496 – 12 June 1547{{sfn|Bersier|1884|p=29}}) 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
Louise was the daughter of Guillaume de Montmorency and Anne Pot and younger sister of Anne de Montmorency, Constable of France.{{sfn|Moreton-Macdonald|1915|p=39}}
In 1530, Louise 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.{{sfn|Shimizu|1970|p=22}} She retired in 1535 and was replaced by Mme de Givry.{{sfn|Roche|2010}}
Louise had considerable patronage power independently of her husband,{{sfn|Kettering|1989|p=817-841}}{{sfn|Davies|2002|p=665-685}} and had an important role in spreading the influence of Calvinism in France in the 16th Century.{{sfn|Noble|2002}}
Marriages
Louise married her first husband, Ferri de Mailly, in 1511.{{sfn|Moreton-Macdonald|1915|p=39}} This marriage produced a daughter;
- Madeleine de Mailly.{{sfn|Moreton-Macdonald|1915|p=39}}
Ferry died in 1513, and Louise remarried in 1514 to Gaspard I de Coligny.{{sfn|Holt|1999|p=219}} From her second marriage she had three sons, all of whom played important roles in the first period of the French Wars of Religion:
- Odet, Cardinal de Châtillon{{sfn|Moreton-Macdonald|1915|p=39}}
- Gaspard, Admiral of France{{sfn|Moreton-Macdonald|1915|p=39}}
- François, Seigneur d'Andelot.{{sfn|Holt|1999|p=219}}
Family tree
{{Coligny tree}}
References
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Sources
- {{Cite book |last=Bersier |first=Eugène |url=https://archive.org/details/colignyearlierli00bersiala |title=Coligny; The Earlier Life of the Great Huguenot |publisher=Hodder and Stoughton |year=1884 |location=London |translator-last=Holmden |translator-first=Annie Harwood |oclc=1099279}}
- {{cite journal |title=The Montmorencys and the Abbey of Sainte Trinité, Caen: Politics, Profit and Reform |first=Joan |last=Davies |journal=The Journal of Ecclesiastical History |year=2002 |volume=53 |issue=4 |pages=665–685 |doi=10.1017/S002204690200427X |url=http://repository.essex.ac.uk/1729/1/download.pdf }}
- {{cite book |title=The French Wars of Religion, 1562-1629 |first=Mack P. |last=Holt |publisher=Cambridge University Press |year=1999 }}
- {{cite journal |title=The patronage power of early modern French noblewomen |first=Sharon |last=Kettering |journal=The Historical Journal |volume= 32, No. 4 (Dec.)|year= 1989 |issue=4 |pages=817–841 |doi=10.1017/S0018246X00015727 |jstor=2639686 |s2cid=154262093 }}
- {{cite book |title=A History of France |volume=2 |first=John Ronald |last=Moreton-Macdonald |publisher=The Macmillan Company |year=1915 }}
- {{cite journal |title=The Development of Protestantism in 16th Century France |first=Graham |last=Noble |journal=History Review |year=2002 |url=https://www.questia.com/googleScholar.qst;jsessionid=L0lYz11DH3VTWPxz1xpnlGv8dHLn7T8BPSjz4hqvB4y4lhMRLCK2!-517935164!1122893772?docId=5000671726 }}
- {{cite web |first=Aline |last=Roche |title=Une perle de pris : la maison de la reine Eléonore d'Autriche |website=Cour de France.fr |year=2010|url=http://cour-de-france.fr/article1646.html |language=fr |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131203031324/http://cour-de-france.fr/article1646.html |archive-date=2013-12-03 }}
- {{cite book |title=Conflict of Loyalties, Politics and Religion in the Career of Gaspard de Coligny, Admiral of France, 1519-1572 |first=J. |last=Shimizu |publisher=Librairie Droz |year=1970 }}
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Category:16th-century French people
Category:French suo jure nobility
Category:French ladies-in-waiting
Category:Court of Francis I of France
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