La Belle Ferronière

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La Belle Ferronière .
Painting by Leonardo da Vinci

Madame Féron , called La Belle Ferronière , (* 1500 ; † around 1530 or 1540) was the mistress of the French King Franz I.

Life

Madame Féron was the daughter of the lawyer Jean Féron and married a Paris lawyer. She served as a lady-in-waiting for Queen Claude de France at the French court . Her beauty aroused the interest of the king and he took her as his mistress. Her jealous husband decided to take gruesome revenge on Francis I by contracting syphilis in a brothel . The French king contracted the venereal disease through his wife and became sterile as a result.

Worth mentioning

The Ferronière jewelry set is said to be named after Madame Féron. The headdress consisted of an ornate hoop, which was set on the upper forehead with a special gemstone or with a pearl in the shape of a teardrop.

See also

Web links

Commons : La Belle Ferronière  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Rudolf Köster: Proper names in the German vocabulary. Walter de Gruyter, Berlin 2003, p. 49, ISBN 978-3-11-017702-2
personal data
SURNAME La Belle Ferronière
ALTERNATIVE NAMES La Belle Ferronnière; Madame Féron; Madame Ferron
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Mistress of the French King Franz I.
DATE OF BIRTH 1500
DATE OF DEATH around 1530