List of mistresses of the kings and emperors of France
Since the end of the Middle Ages, it was not uncommon for the kings of France , who were forced to enter into politically motivated marriages, to maintain one or more mistresses . Louis XIV even went so far as to secretly marry one of them, Madame de Maintenon . The women at the monarch's side did not always have the title of “royal mistress”.
List of mistresses
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| Bid Cassinel | 1340-1380 | Charles V , called the Wise | a son | ||
| Odette de Champdivers | 1385-1424 | Charles VI , called the Beloved or the Insane | a daughter |
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| Agnes Sorel | 1410-1450 | Charles VII , called the Victorious | four daughters |
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| Antoinette de Maignelais, Madame de Villequier | 1420-1474 | Charles VII, called the Victorious | two sons and a daughter | ||
| Phelise Regnard | † 1474 | Louis XI. , called the clever one | two daughters | ||
| Marguerite de Sassenage, Madame de Beaumont | 1450-1471 | Louis XI, called the wise | two daughters | ||
| Françoise de Foix, Comtesse de Laval-Châteaubriant | 1490 / 95-1537 | Franz I , called the Knight King | a daughter |
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| Anne de Pisseleu d'Heilly , 1536 Duchesse d'Étampes | around 1508 – after 1552 | Franz I, called the Knight King | not specified |
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| Madame Féron , known as La Belle Ferronière | 1500-1530 | Franz I, called the Knight King | not specified |
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| Claude de Rohan-Gié (La Comtesse de Thoury) | 1519-after 1579 | Franz I, called the Knight King | not specified |
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| Lady Jane Stewart , known as La Belle Ecossaise | 1520-1563 | Henry II | a son |
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| Filippa Duci | 1520-1586 | Henry II | a daughter | ||
| Nicole de Savigny, Baroness of Saint-Remy | 1535-1590 | Henry II | a son | ||
| Diana of Poitiers, Comtesse of Saint-Vallier | 1499-1566 | Henry II | not specified |
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| Marie Touchet | 1549-1638 | Charles IX | a son |
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| Louise de La Béraudière du Rouhet | 1530-1586 | Henry III. and Heinrich IV. | not specified |
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| Renée de Rieux, demoiselle de Châteauneuf | 1541-1582 | Henry III. | not specified |
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| Veronica Franco | 1546-1591 | Henry III. | not specified |
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| Fleurette de Nérac | † 1592 | Henry IV. | not specified | ||
| Charlotte de Beaune-Semblancay, comtesse de Sauve | 1551-1617 | Henry IV. | not specified |
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| Jeanne du Monceau de Tignonville | 1555-1596 | Henry IV. | not specified | ||
| Victoire de Ayala | Henry IV. | not specified | |||
| Aimée Le Grand | Henry IV. | not specified | |||
| Catherine de Luc | Henry IV. | She went on hunger strike when Henry IV left her and died. | |||
| Anne de Cambefort | Henry IV. | She threw herself out of a window when Henry IV left her. | |||
| Françoise de Montmorency-Fosseux | 1564–? | Henry IV. | not specified |
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| Diane d'Andouins | 1554-1620 | Henry IV. | not specified |
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| Esther Imbert | 1570 – after 1593 | Henry IV. | a son | ||
| Antoinette de Pons | 1570-1632 | Henry IV. | not specified |
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| Catherine de Beauvilliers , Abbess of Montmartre | Henry IV. | not specified | |||
| Catherine de Verdun , Superior of Longchamp Abbey | Henry IV. | not specified | |||
| Gabrielle d'Estrées | 1570-1599 | Henry IV. | two sons and a daughter |
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| Isabelle Potier | Henry IV. | not specified | |||
| Catherine Henriette de Balzac d'Entragues | 1579-1633 | Henry IV. | several children |
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| Marie-Françoise de La Bourdaisière | Henry IV. | not specified | |||
| Jacqueline de Bueil | 1588-1651 | Henry IV. | a son |
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| Charlotte des Essarts | 1580-1651 | Henry IV. | two daughters |
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| Charlotte-Marguerite de Montmorency | 1594-1650 | Henry IV. | not specified |
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| Catherine Bellier | 1614-1689 | Louis XIV | not specified | ||
| Olympia Mancini | 1639-1708 | Louis XIV | not specified |
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| Maria Mancini | 1639-1715 | Louis XIV | not specified | ||
| Anne de Rohan-Chabot | 1648-1709 | Louis XIV | a son |
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| Catherine-Charlotte de Gramont | 1639-1678 | Louis XIV | not specified |
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| Henrietta Anne Stuart | 1644-1670 | Louis XIV | not specified |
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| Louise de La Vallière | 1644-1710 | Louis XIV | three sons and a daughter |
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| Françoise-Athénaïs de Rochechouart de Mortemart, marquise de Montespan | 1640-1707 | Louis XIV | three sons and three daughters |
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| Marie-Elisabeth de Ludres | 1647-1726 | Louis XIV | not specified |
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| Claude de Vin des Œillets | 1637-1687 | Louis XIV | a daughter |
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| Françoise d'Aubigné, marquise de Maintenon | 1635-1719 | Louis XIV | not specified |
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| Marie Angélique de Scoraille de Roussille | 1661-1681 | Louis XIV | stillborn son |
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| Pauline de Piertois | 1641-1713 | Louis XIV | not specified | ||
| Louise Julie de Mailly-Nesle | 1710-1751 | Louis XV | not specified |
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| Pauline Félicité de Mailly-Nesle | 1712-1741 | Louis XV | a son |
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| Diane-Adélaïde de Mailly-Nesle | 1713-1760 | Louis XV | not specified |
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| Marie-Anne de Mailly-Nesle | 1717-1744 | Louis XV | not specified |
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| Jeanne-Antoinette Poisson, marquise de Pompadour | 1721-1764 | Louis XV | not specified |
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| Marie-Jeanne Bécu, comtesse du Barry "Madame Dubarry" | 1743-1793 | Louis XV | not specified |
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| Marie-Louise O'Murphy | 1737-1814 | Louis XV | a daughter |
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| Françoise de Châlus | 1734-1821 | Louis XV | two sons |
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| Marguerite-Catherine Haynault | 1736-1823 | Louis XV | two daughters | ||
| Lucie-Madeleine d'Estaing | 1743-1826 | Louis XV | two daughters | ||
| Anne Couppier de Romans | 1737-1808 | Louis XV | a son |
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| Louise-Jeanne Tiercelin de La Colleterie | 1746-1779 | Louis XV | a son | ||
| Irène du Buisson de Longpré | † 1767 | Louis XV | a daughter | ||
| Catherine Éléonore Bénard | 1740-1769 | Louis XV | a daughter | ||
| Marie Thérèse Françoise Boisselet | 1731-1800 | Louis XV | a son | ||
| Éléonore Denuelle | 1787-1868 | Napoleon Bonaparte | A son |
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| Maria Walewska | 1786-1817 | Napoleon Bonaparte | A son |
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| Zoé Talon | 1785-1852 | Louis XVIII | not specified |
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