Jeanne du Monceau de Tignonville

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Jeanne du Monceau de Tignonville (* 1555 in Pau , † 1596 in Navarra ), also called La petite Tignonville , was Countess of Panjas by marriage and from 1581 mistress of the French King Henry IV for a short time .

Life

Jeanne was the daughter of Lancelot du Monceau, Seigneur de Thignonville , and his wife Marguerite de Selves. Her mother was the educator Catherine de Bourbons , the sister of Henry IV, and so Jeanne grew up together with the future regent of Navarre as well as Diane d'Andouins and Louise de Coligny at Pau Castle . She later became Queen of Honor Catherine de Bourbons through the influence of her mother .

During one of his stays in Pau , Henry IV fell in love with Jeanne, then 22, at the end of 1576 or beginning of 1577, but his wooing for her initially remained unheard of. Only after she married François Jean Charles de Pardaillan, Count of Panjas, in Paris on February 7, 1581, did she give in to the insistence of the French king. On the occasion of the wedding, Jeanne received generous gifts from Heinrich and his sister, while her husband was given high-ranking and well-paid positions. The royal cash gift for Jeanne on this occasion alone amounted to 12,000  livres . She used her position in Catherine's court in the years that followed to amass fortunes for herself and her family. The donations she received during her time as a maid of honor were so exorbitantly high that in 1609 an attempt was made to have the donations annulled by the court .

The couple traveled around the country with Heinrich, so that their six children were all born in different cities. Her descendants were:

  • Henri (* 1582)
  • Louis (* 1583; † 1607)
  • Henri (* 1587)
  • Henriette (* 1590; † 1609), ⚭ 1) 1609 Gédéon d'Astarac, baron de Fontrailles, 2) Henri de Baudean, Count of Parabère
  • Catherine (* 1592)
  • Jeanne (* 1599)

literature

  • Adolphe Mathurin de Lescure: Les amours de Henri IV. Faure, Paris 1864, pp. 81-84 ( online ).
  • Raymond Ritter: La petite Tignonville. Delmas, Bordeaux 1945.
  • Ernest Alfred Vizetelly: The favorites of Henry of Navarre. Gorham, Boston 1910, pp. 48-49 ( online ).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Adrien Desclozeaux: Gabrielle d'Estrées, Marquise de Monceaux, Duchesse de Beaufort. Champion, Paris 1889, p. 56 ( online ).
  2. ^ Pierre Tucoo-Chala: Catherine de Bourbon. Une calviniste exemplaire. Atlantica, 1997, ISBN 2843940028 , p. 220.
  3. ↑ Philippe Lauzun: Châteaux Gascons de la fin du XIIIe siècle. In: Revue de gascogne. Bulletin mensuel de la société historique de Gascogne. Volume 38. Foix, Auch 1897, p. 103.
  4. ^ Sharon Kettering: The Patronage Power of Early Modern French Noblewomen. In: The Historical Journal. No. 4, vol. 32, 1989, p. 827, doi : 10.1017 / S0018246X00015727 .
  5. ^ Sharon Kettering: The Patronage Power of Early Modern French Noblewomen. In: The Historical Journal. No. 4, Vol. 32, 1989, pp. 827-828, doi : 10.1017 / S0018246X00015727 .
  6. ↑ L'Abbé Cauzaran: Comté de Panjas. Son passé, son église et ses peintures romanes. In: Bulletin. Société de Borda. Labèque, Dax 1892, p. 76.
  7. ↑ Anselme de Sainte-Marie : Histoire de la Maison Royale de France, et des grands officiers de la Couronne. Volume 5, 3rd edition. Paris 1730, p. 196 ( online ).
personal data
SURNAME Monceau de Tignonville, Jeanne de
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Monceau, Jeanne de; La petite Tignonville
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Mistress of the French King Henry IV.
DATE OF BIRTH 1555
PLACE OF BIRTH Pau
DATE OF DEATH 1596
Place of death Navarre