Angélique d'Estrées
Angélique d'Estrées (* probably 1570; † 1634 in Paris ) was a French noblewoman and abbess of Maubuisson .
Life
Angélique d'Estrées was the daughter of Antoine IV. D'Estrées , Marquis de Cœuvres, Grand Master of the Artillery of France , and Françoise Babou de La Bourdaisière and sister of Gabrielle d'Estrées .
In 1580, at the age of 10, she was admitted as a novice to the Priory of Saint-Louis de Poissy . Five years later, at the age of 15, she was the mistress of King Henry III. like her mother a few years earlier. Her affair with the king is known from the embassy correspondence to the royal court in 1585: On April 26th of the same year, King Heinrich III. in a letter to Jean de Vivonne , Marquis de Pisany and ambassador in Rome, to ask the new Pope Sixtus V to have Maubuisson Abbey for her, but the Pope found her too young for that and gave her the Sainte-Marie de Abbey instead Berteaucourt, whose abbess she was from 1586 to 1610. In 1594, King Henry IV gave her Maubuisson Abbey, which enabled him to see his mistress Gabrielle d'Estrées, whom he had lodged in her sister's abbey.
On June 23, 1599, Angélique Arnauld , who grew up in Port-Royal , became a novice there; on June 25, 1600 she moved to Maubuisson, where she found a form of maternal affection from Angélique d'Estrées. A misstatement by her father Antoine Arnauld about her age brought her the papal bull from Rome , which was necessary in order to become abbess, even though she was only eleven years old. On July 16, 1602, after the death of Jeanne de Boulehart, of which she was coadjutor, she left Maubuisson Abbey to take over the management of Port-Royal.
Around 1600 Angélique d'Estrées enraged her cousin, Cardinal François d'Escoubleau de Sourdis , when she married her sister Françoise d'Estrées, a novice in Maubuisson, to Count Charles de Sanzay without the consent of her parents.
The conditions in the Maubuisson monastery under the abbess Angélique d'Estrées led to the accession of Louis XIII. a scandal, so that in 1617 the king asked the Abbot General of Cîteaux , Nicolas II. Boucherat , to remedy the situation. The Abbot General sent some of his religious to call the superior to order, but she had them locked up and then sent them away after promising them reforms. When nothing happened, the Abbot General sent new emissaries, whom Angélique d'Estrées locked up in one of the abbey towers. The emissaries were able to flee and return to their monastery. The Abbot General now asked the court for a police action to remove the abbess and imprison the Augustines de l'Ordre de la Pénitence de la Madeleine , who were under the direction of Marie Alvequin . The corresponding order was carried out on February 3, 1618 by Jean de Fontis , Prévôt of L'Isle, and his archers , who took Angélique d'Estrées with them and replaced them with their former novice Angélique Arnauld.
On September 10, 1619, Angélique d'Estrées escaped from her prison and returned to Maubuisson with the help of her brother-in-law Charles de Sanzay and other nobles. There she was accepted again, but then detained in the Grand Châtelet , which she only left again to die in extreme poverty in a small house in a Paris suburb in 1634. She was buried in the Poor Clare Church in Paris .
literature
- Charles Clémencet , Histoire général de Port-Royal, depuis la reforme de l'Abbaie jusqu'à son entière destruction , Volume 7, 1757
- Adrien Desclozeaux, Gabrielle d'Estrées , Paris, 1899
- Anne Marie de St. Eustoquie, Relations sur de reverende mère Marie des Anges, morte en 1658, Abbesse de Port-Royal, er sur la conduite qu'elle a gardée dans la réforme de Maubuisson étant Abbesse de ce monastère , 1737
- Isaure de Saint-Pierre, Gabrielle d'Estrées , 2017
Remarks
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Estrées, Angélique d ' |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Abbess of Maubuisson |
| DATE OF BIRTH | uncertain: 1570 |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1634 |
| Place of death | Paris |