Balzac (noble family)

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Balzac (or Balsac , also Balzac d'Entragues ) was a family of the French aristocracy, which was of great influence at the time of the last Valois kings at the royal court, but did not reach its peak until Catherine Henriette de Balzac d'Entragues (1579–1633 ), who in 1599 became the mistress of the first Bourbon king, Henry IV .

history

The family first appeared in the mid-14th century. Their origin is unclear; There are places of the same name with Balzac (Charente) and Balzac, a part of Birieux (Ain). Their first and eponymous property was Entraigues (Puy-de-Dôme) near Clermont-Ferrand . The wives of the first known Balzacs also come from this area.

The rise began with marriages entered into with the families of the high officials at the Paris court: Chabannes , Joyeuse, Malet, and wealth was added through the inheritance of Louis Malet de Graville : Montaigu-la-Brisette , Le Bois-Malesherbes and before Marcoussis, especially close to Paris . The family took advantage of their closeness to the monarch in court life, not in the military and not in politics, but above all in his private life. The most famous members of the Balzac d'Entragues family are:

The writer Honoré de Balzac does not belong to the family, but he still used her coat of arms: Balzac's father had the family name Balssa until 1780, the title de nobility was an ornament that the author gave himself.

Tribe list

  1. Roffec de Balzac, knight, mid-14th century; ⚭ Cybille de Gouzon
    1. Guillaume de Balzac, knight, Seigneur d'Entragues, second half of the 14th century, ⚭ Marguerite d ' Auzon , daughter of Étienne, knight
      1. Jean de Balzac, Seigneur d'Entragues, first half of the 15th century; ⚭ Agnès de Chabannes, daughter of Jacques I. de Chabannes , Seigneur de La Palice , Grand Master of France , and Anne de Lavieu (alternatively: daughter of Robert de Chabannes and Alix de Bort , Dame de Pierrefitte , the parents of Jacques I.) ( House Chabannes )
        1. Roffec de Balzac, † October 25, 1473, Seigneur de Glisenave ( Égliseneuve-d'Entraigues ); ⚭ February 16, 1453 Anne d'Albon, Dame de Châtillon d'Azergues , daughter of Antoine d'Albon ( House of Albon )
          1. Roffec de Balzac
          2. Geoffroy de Balzac, † 1510 Seigneur d'Entragues, 1489 Châtelain de Bagnols-en-Beaujolais ; ⚭ August 26, 1493 Claude Le Viste, daughter of Jean Le Viste, Baron de Montreuil
          3. Anne de Balzac; ⚭ 1472 Guillaume de Joyeuse, Viscount de Joyeuse , † after 1493 ( House Joyeuse )
          4. Marie de Balzac, † March 23, 1503; ⚭ Louis Malet de Graville , † 1516, Seigneur de Graville , Sées et Bernay , Montaigu , Marcoussis , Milly-la-Forêt , Le Bois-Malesherbes , Gometz-le-Châtel , Bréthencourt , Chevreuse etc., 1486 / 87–1508 Admiral of France , governor of Picardy and Normandy , lieutenant general in Normandy, captain of Vincennes , Beaute and Fontainebleau , knight of the Ordre de Saint-Michel ( House of Malet )
          5. Philippe de Balzac; ⚭ 1497 Louis de Montlaur , Seigneur de Maubec
          6. Marguerite de Balzac
        2. Robert de Balzac, Seigneur d'Entragues, Baron de Saint-Amand (Puy-de-Dome); ⚭ October 3, 1474 Antoinette de Castelnau - Caylus , daughter of Antoine de Castelnau-Caylus, Baron de Clermont-Lodève , and Catherine de Chauvigny
          1. Pierre de Balzac, * 1479 † around 1530, Baron d'Entragues et de Saint-Amand, Seigneur de Prélat, de Paulhac, de Luis, de Dunes et de Clermont-Soubiran, captain of Corbeil and Fontainebleau  ; ⚭ Anne Malet de Graville , Dame du Bois-Malesherbes et de Montaigu, writer, † after December 14, 1525, daughter of Louis Malet de Graville , Seigneur de Graville , Sées et Bernay , Montaigu , Marcoussis , Milly-la-Forêt , Le Bois-Malesherbes , Gometz-le-Châtel , Bréthencourt , Chevreuse etc., 1486 / 87–1508 Admiral of France , Governor of Picardy and Normandy ( House Malet ), and Marie de Balzac (see above)
            1. Thomas de Balzac, † after April 12, 1575, Seigneur de Montaigu-la-Brisette, buried in Marcoussis; ⚭ Anne Gaillard, daughter of Michel II Gaillard, Seigneur de Longjumeau et de Chilly ( house Gaillard ), and Souveraine d'Angoulême, illegitimate daughter of Charles de Valois , Comte d'Angoulême ( house Valois-Angoulême ), and Jeanne Le Comte , buried in Marcoussis
              1. Jean (Pierre) de Balzac, * 1545, † December 8, 1581, Seigneur de Montagu, de Chastres-sous-Montlhéry , de Viviers et de la Roue , governor of Saint-Jean-d'Angély , later of Brouage , buried in Marcoussis; ⚭ Madeleine Olivier, † after June 16, 1576
                1. Anne de Balzac; ⚭ I François de l'Isle, Seigneur de Treigny , governor of Corbeil 1594, de La Capelle 1598 and Amiens 1607, † 1611; ⚭ II Louis Séguier, Baron de Saint-Brisson
              2. Robert de Balzac, Seigneur d ' Ambonville , de (Montaigu-) la Brizette et de Chastres-sous-Montlhéry; ⚭ Marie Le Maistre, daughter of Gilles Le Maistre and Marie d ' Hennequin
              3. Louise de Balzac; ⚭ Jean III. de Créquy -Raimboval, Seigneur de Raimboval et des Granges
              4. Charles de Balzac, † November 27, 1627, Bishop of Noyon , Peer of France , 1618 Chevalier du Saint-Esprit , buried in Marcoussis
              5. Anne de Balzac; ⚭ May 7, 1570 Antoine de Monchy , Seigneur de Montcavrel , † after June 19, 1585
              6. Claude de Balzac, Dame de Boisroger
              7. Louise de Balzac, † 1628, Abbess of Saulboir near Laon
              8. Souveraine de Balzac, † 1628
            2. Guillaume de Balzac, born December 14, 1517 in Marcoussis, † 1555 in Montreuil, Seigneur d'Entragues, de Marcoussis et de Malherbes, Baron de Clermont, governor of Orléans  ; ⚭ October 18, 1538 in Compiègne Louise d'Humiéres, daughter of Jean d'Humières, Seigneur d ' Humières , and Françoise de Contay, Dame de Contay
              1. Henri de Balzac, born March 30, 1540 in Malherbes, † young
              2. François de Balzac, * 1541, † February 11, 1612, Seigneur d'Entragues, de Marcoussis et du Bois-Malesherbes, Governor of Orléans, Chevalier du Saint-Esprit December 31, 1578; ⚭ I Jacqueline de Rohan-Gié, Dame de Gié , † May 1578, daughter of François de Rohan-Gié, Baron du Château-du-Loir ( House of Rohan ), and Catherine de Silly , Comtesse de Rochefort ; ⚭ II 1578 Marie Touchet , * 1549 in Orléans , † March 26, 1638 in Paris, Dame de Belleville , the former mistress of King Charles IX. , Daughter of Jean Touchet and Marie Mathy
                1. (I) Charles de Balzac, Seigneur d'Entragues et de Marcoussis, Governor of Orléans and Étampes  ; ⚭ I February 5, 1595 Marie de La Châtre, † 1597, daughter of Claude de La Châtre , baron de La Maisonfort, governor of Berry ( House of la Châtre ), and Jeanne Chabot de Jarnac  ; ⚭ II Jeanne Gaignon
                  1. (I) 2 children , † young
                  2. (II) Charles de Balzac, * 1596, † 1616
                  3. (II) Claude de Balzac, † January 26, 1636, Seigneur de Marcoussis, buried in Marcoussis
                  4. (II) Anne de Balzac, † young
                  5. (II) Françoise de Balzac, * 1595, † 1650 in Château-du-Loir, nun in Faremoutiers , then in Bonlieu
                2. (I) César de Balzac, Seigneur de Gié; ⚭ 1612 Catherine Hennequin d'Assy, widow of Charles de Balzac, daughter of Antoine Hennequin
                3. (I) Charlotte Catherine de Balzac, * 1568; ⚭ November 23, 1588 Jacques d ' Illiers , Seigneur de Chantemerle , † 1611
                  1. Léon d'Illiers, Seigneur d'Entragues - Descendants: the lords of Entragues from the Illiers family
                4. (I) 2 children , † young
                5. (II) Catherine Henriette de Balzac d'Entragues , * 1579, † February 9, 1633, 1599 mistress of King Henry IV , later Marquise de Verneuil
                6. (II) Marie Charlotte de Balzac d'Entragues  ; Relationship with François de Bassompierre , Marshal of France , † 1646
                  1. (illegitimate) Louis II. de Bassompierre , Abbot of Chéry , (1649) Bishop of Saintes
              3. Charles de Balzac le Jeune, † March 14, 1590 in Ivry, Seigneur de Clermont-Soubiran , Chevalier du Saint-Esprit December 31, 1583; ⚭ Hélène Bon
                1. Henri de Balzac, January 1617 Marquis de Clermont-d'Entragues, Comte de Graville, Baron de Dunes, Seigneur de Mézières ; ⚭ Louise L'Huillier
                  1. Louise de Balzac, † February 1682 in Paris; ⚭ September 3, 1647 Louis de Bretagne-Avaugour, 7th Comte de Vertus et de Goëllo , 7th Baron d ' Avaugour , † October 2, 1669 in Clisson
                  2. Marie de Balzac, * 1617, † November 9, 1691; ⚭ May 28, 1651 Jean Gaspard Ferdinand de Marchin, Comte de Granville , Seigneur de Modave , † 1673 - the parents of Ferdinand de Marsin (* 1656, † 1706) Comte de Marsin, Marquis de Clermont-d'Entragues, Baron de Dunes , Marshal of France
                2. Charles de Balzac, † 1611, Seigneur de Dunes, Comte de Graville, Chevalier du Saint-Esprit January 7, 1595; ⚭ June 28, 1606 Catherine Hennequin d'Assy, daughter of Antoine Hennequin, she married César de Balzac, Comte de Graville, Seigneur de Gyé
                  1. Jeanne de Balzac; ⚭ Louis Hurault, Seigneur des Marais
                  2. Alphonsine de Balzac; ⚭ October 10, 1628 Charles Martel, Seigneur de Moupinçon et de Fontaine-Martel,
                  3. Elisabeth de Balzac, * 1610, † 1687; ⚭ February 21, 1634 Gaston de Renty , Seigneur de Landelles ,
                3. Jean de Balzac, † May 15, 1608, abbot of St. Martin-aux-Bois near Évron and Saint-Quentin-les-Beauvais , Bishop of Grenoble
                4. Louis de Balzac, * January 1597, † 1618, Knight of the Order of Malta
                5. Nicolas de Balzac, † January 16, 1610, abbot of St. Martin-aux-Bois near Évron and Saint-Quentin-les-Beauvais , coadjutor of Autun
                6. Hélène de Balzac, † young
              4. Jean de Balzac, * February 28, 1543, * young, buried in Marcoussis
              5. Galéas de Balzac, Seigneur de Graville, † 1573
              6. Charles de Balzac, Seigneur de Dunes, † 1599 in Toulouse , Governor of Saint-Dizier , one of the Mignons of Henry III. , Participant in the duel of the Mignons in 1576, lover of Margaret of Valois (1553-1615) ( le bel Entraguet )
              7. Robert de Balzac, * 1547, † March 18, 1548
              8. Louise de Balzac, ⚭ June 9, 1571 Jacques, Baron de Clère, Seigneur de Beaumetz , de La Croix-Saint-Leufroy , de Goupillières et de Panilleuse
              9. Catherine de Balzac, † 1631/32; ⚭ 1572 Esmé Stewart, 1st Duke of Lennox , † May 28, 1583 ( Stuart House )
            3. Louise de Balzac; ⚭ 1532 Charles Martel, Seigneur de Bacqueville , Governor of Le Havre
            4. Antoinette de Balzac, Abbess of Malnoue
            5. Jeanne de Balzac, † 1542, Dame d'Entragues; ⚭ August 6, 1532 Claude d'Urfé , * February 24, 1501, † November 12, 1558, Bailli of Forez
            6. Georgette de Balzac; ⚭ May 10, 1538 Jean Pot, Seigneur de Chemault et de Rhodes , Maître des Cérémonies de France ( House Pot ) - the parents of Guillaume Pot de Rhodes
            7. 2 sons , † young
          2. Jeanne de Balzac; ⚭ Amaury de Montal , † before 1520, governor of the Haute Auvergne
          3. Louise de Balzac
        3. ? Antoine de Balzac-d'Entragues, 1474–1491 Bishop of Die and Valence

Individual evidence

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