Françoise of Lorraine, Duchess of Vendôme

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Françoise of Lorraine
Duchess of Vendôme
Engraving of Françoise while a widow
Born1592
France
Died8 September 1669
Paris, France
Burial
Capucins, Paris, France
Spouse
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(m. 1608; died 1665)​
Issue
Detail
Names
Françoise de Lorraine
FatherPhilippe Emmanuel, Duke of Mercœur
MotherMarie de Luxembourg

Françoise of Lorraine (November 1592 – 8 September 1669) was a princess of Lorraine and daughter-in-law of

Mercœur and Penthièvre suo jure
.

Biography

Engraved portrait of César de Bourbon, Duke of Vendôme (1594–1665)

Françoise was the younger of two children. She was born in November 1592 with the exact date unknown; her only sibling, Philippe Louis, died in 1590 aged one making her the heiress to a large private fortune. During the reign of Henry III, her father had put himself at the head of the Catholic League in Brittany, and had himself proclaimed protector of the Roman Catholic Church in the province in 1588. Invoking the hereditary rights of his wife, who was a descendant of the Dukes of Brittany, he endeavoured to make himself independent in that province, and organised a government at Nantes, calling his son "prince and duke of Brittany".

Coat of arms as Duchess of Vendôme

With the aid of the Spaniards he defeated

Henri de Bourbon, Duke of Montpensier, whom Henry IV of France had sent against him, at Craon in 1592. The king marched against Meroeur in person. As part of their peace they drew up a marriage contract in 1596 whereby his daughter, would marry Henry's legitimised son.[1]

The French and Spanish then signed the Peace of Vervins on 2 May 1598 when Françoise was 6; part of the treaty again stipulated that the young Françoise would be engaged to the illegitimate child of Henry IV, César de Bourbon, Duke of Vendôme. Vendôme was the eldest child of the King and his mistress Gabrielle d'Estrées. [citation needed]

The wedding took place at the

duchy of Étampes and the seigneurie of Ancenis. [citation needed
]

Issue

  1. Louis de Bourbon, Duke of Vendôme (1612–1669) married Laura Mancini and had issue.
  2. Élisabeth de Bourbon, Mademoiselle de Vendôme (1614–1664) married Charles Amadeus of Savoy, Duke of Nemours and had issue.
  3. François de Bourbon, Duke of Beaufort
    (1616–1669) died unmarried.

Ancestry

References

  1. ^ Martha Walker Freer (1863). History of the Reign of Henry IV. King of France and Navarre: From Numerous Unpublished Sources. Hurst and Blackett. p. 128.

External links

Media related to Françoise of Lorraine at Wikimedia Commons

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