Claude de Rohan-Gié

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Claude de Rohan-Gié, Comtesse de Thoury (by François Clouet , 16th century, Louvre )

Claude de Rohan-Gié, Comtesse de Thoury (* 1519; † after 1579) from the House of Rohan-Guéméné was one of the numerous and one of the last mistresses of the French King Francis I (1494–1547).

family

She was the daughter of Charles de Rohan-Gié († 1528), Count of Guise (until 1526) and Count of Orbec (from 1526), ​​Vicomte de Fronsac, Seigneur de Gié et de Penhoët, Grand Cupid of France , and Giovanna Sanseverino ( called Jeanne de Saint-Séverin in France). Her grandparents were Pierre I, Prince de Rohan , Comte de Marle and Marshal of France , and Françoise de Penhoët, as well as Bernardino Sanseverino, 3rd Principe di Bisignano, and Eleonore (or Dianora) Todeschini Piccolomini . Claude de Rohan-Gié therefore belonged to the closest circle around the French King Francis I from birth.

In 1537 she married Claude I. de Beauvilliers from the house of Beauvilliers , Comte de Saint-Aignan , Seigneur de Thoury , de La Ferté-Hubert et de Salle-les-Cléry, governor of Blois , who on August 15, 1539 in Saint-Aignan died; he was the son of Méry de Beauvilliers, Seigneur de Thoury, and Louise d'Husson, Dame de Saint-Aignan.

On January 15, 1541 she married Julien de Clermont († 1563), Baron de Thoury, from the house of Clermont-Tonnerre , the son of Bernardin de Clermont, Vicomte de Tallard, and Anne d'Husson, Comtesse de Tonnerre . From this marriage she had a son, Gabriel, Baron de Thoury († 1595), from whom the later Counts of Thoury descended, and a daughter, Louise. Little is known about the years after the birth of their children.

At the center of power

Through her sister Jacqueline (1520–1587), wife of François d'Orléans, Margrave of Rötteln and Vicomte de Melun from the House of Orléans-Longueville , she was related by marriage to the royal family when she entered her first marriage. She became the lady of honor of the (since 1530) wife of King Francis I, Eleanor of Castile (Leonor de Austria) , and (probably 1539/40) the king's mistress. During that time she was part of the network that the Clermont family maintained around three generations of French monarchs, since her brother-in-law Antoine III. de Clermont († 1578) became one of the favorites of the future King Henry II (1519–1559) after he had married Françoise de Poitiers in 1532, the sister of Heinrich's long-time mistress Diane de Poitiers , and since her sister-in-law Louise de Clermont († 1596) the confidante of Queen Caterina de 'Medici and governess of the later King Charles IX. (1550-1574) was.

Legends

The Comtesse de Thoury is often reported to belong to the “de Thoury” family from the Nivernais (hence also called “de Nièvre”), to have been Queen Claude's lady-in-waiting and a childhood sweetheart of Francis I before his accession to the throne, who owned the castle Chambord built in order to be close to her, since she lived in the neighboring domain of Muides-sur-Loire ; In 1510 he gave her the title of Countess von Thoury, and he also gave her the castle.

These reports lack any basis, both in terms of their life data and the building history of Chambord:

  • She does not appear in the history of the Thoury family
  • Queen Claude died in 1524
  • Francis I, who became king in 1515, did not award any title of count in 1510
  • The construction of Chambord Castle began in 1519, the year Claude de Rohan was born, and in 1539, when she was widowed at the age of 20, it was already finished to the point where Emperor Charles V could be received here.

Parts of these statements can be found in Henry James ' “A little tour in France”, where she is mentioned as the childhood sweetheart of the future king living in the neighborhood of Chambord, and then also in the novel “In Château Land” (1911) by the British author Anne Hollingsworth Wharton (1845-1928).

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Remarks

  1. ↑ In Schwennicke only "Dame de Thoury", in Père Anselme without a title
  2. ↑ according to Père Anselme, she was still alive on July 13, 1579; Schwennicke does not give any life data
  3. ↑ Schwennicke: 1540
  4. ↑ Père Anselme states November 30, 1629 as the day on which Claudes' grandson received (again) the title of Count of Thoury
  5. ↑ She had the name Dame de Thoury since her first marriage, she kept it as a widow and it was passed on to her second husband with the elevation to baron
  6. ↑ Cf. Maison de Thoury at geneawiki ( Memento of the original from February 28, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / fr.geneawiki.com
  7. ^ "The Comtesse de Thoury had a manor in the neighborhood, and the Comtesse de Thoury had been the object of a youthful passion on the part of the most susceptible of princes before his accession to the throne. This great pile was reared, therefore, according to M. de la Saussaye, as a souvenir de premieres amours! ", Henry James, A little tour in France , Chapter 5, 1883/84 as series En province in the magazine" The Atlantic Monthly ”printed online
  8. ↑ “… another theory is that a charming woman, the Comtesse de Thoury, one of the early loves of the King, had a manor in the neighborhood” and “… she believed that the King came here for the hunting, the Comtesse de Thoury having been a love of his youth ... ", both p. 88
personal data
SURNAME Rohan-Gié, Claude de
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Thoury, Claude de Rohan-Gié Comtesse de (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Mistress of the French King Franz I.
DATE OF BIRTH 1519
DATE OF DEATH after 1579