Louise de Montmorency
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Louise de Montmorency | |
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_Saint-Martin67644_-_Louise_de_Montmorency.JPG) Louise de Montmorency depicted on a stained glass window in the Saint-Martin de Montmorency collegiate church, around 1525. | |
| Born | 1496 |
| Died | June 12, 1547 (aged 50–51) |
| Spouse(s) | Ferri de Mailly Gaspard I de Coligny |
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Louise de Montmorency (1496 – 12 June 1547[1]) 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.
Louise was the daughter of Guillaume de Montmorency and Anne Pot and younger sister of Anne de Montmorency, Constable of France.[2]
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.[3] She retired in 1535 and was replaced by Mme de Givry.[4]
Louise had considerable patronage power independently of her husband,[5][6] and had an important role in spreading the influence of Calvinism in France in the 16th Century.[7]
Marriages
Louise married her first husband, Ferri de Mailly, in 1511.[2] This marriage produced a daughter;
- Madeleine de Mailly.[2]
Ferry died in 1513, and Louise remarried in 1514 to Gaspard I de Coligny.[8] From her second marriage she had three sons, all of whom played important roles in the first period of the French Wars of Religion:
