Maîtresse-en-titre

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The maîtresse-en-titre (French:

While the King may have many mistresses, there was normally only one official Maîtresse-en-titre. Below are examples of those with this position. For a full list of all the mistresses of a French King, regardless of their position as official or not, please see List of French royal mistresses.

Charles V of France (1338 – 1380)

• Biette de Cassinel (c. 1340 – c. 1380)

Charles VI of France (1368 – 1422)

• Odette de Champdivers (c. 1384–1424)

Charles VII of France (1403 – 1461)

• Agnès Sorel (c. 1422–1450)
• Antoinette de Maignelais (c. 1430 – c. 1461)

• Phélise Regnard (1424-1474)
• Marguerite de Sassenage (c. 1449–1471)

Francis I of France (1494 – 1547)

• Françoise de Foix (1495–1537), countess of Châteaubriant
• Anne de Pisseleu d'Heilly (1508–1580), duchess of Étampes

Henry II of France (1519 – 1559)

• Diane de Poitiers (1499–1566)

Henry III of France (1551 – 1589)

• Louise de La Béraudière du Rouhet (1530-1611)
• Renée de Rieux de Châteauneuf (fl. 16th C.)
• Marie of Cleves, Princess of Condé (1553–1574)

Henry IV of France (1553 – 1610)

• Diane d'Andoins "La Belle Corisandre" (1554–1621)
• Françoise de Montmorency (1562–?)
• Esther Imbert (1570 – c. 1593)
• Antoinette de Pons
  (1570–1632)
• Gabrielle d'Estrées (c. 1571–1599)
• Catherine Henriette de Balzac d'Entragues (1579–1633), marquise de Verneuil
• Jacqueline de Bueil (c. 1580–1651)
• Charlotte des Essarts (c. 1580–1651)

• Louise Françoise de la Baume le Blanc de la Vallière
  (1644–1710), duchesse de la Vallière and duchesse de Vaujours
• Françoise-Athénaïs de Rochechouart de Mortemart, marquise de Montespan
  (1640–1707)
• Françoise d'Aubigné, marquise de Maintenon
  (1635–1719), married the King in 1683
• Isabelle de Ludres (1687–1722)
• Marie Angélique de Scoraille de Roussille
  (1661–1681), duchess of Fontanges

• Louise Julie de Mailly (1710–1751), comtesse de Mailly
• Pauline-Félicité de Mailly
  (1712–1741), marquise de Vintimille
• Diane-Adélaïde de Mailly
  (1713–1760), duchess de Lauraguais
• Marie-Anne de Mailly (1717–1744), duchess de Châteauroux
• Jeanne-Antoinette Poisson (better known as Madame de Pompadour) (1721–1764), marquise de Pompadour
• Marie-Jeanne Bécu (better known as Madame du Barry) (1743–1793), comtesse de Barry

• Zoé Talon, comtesse du Cayla (1785–1852)

See also

• Henry IV of France's wives and mistresses
• Favourite

References