Louis de Clermont, seigneur de Bussy d'Amboise

Portrait of Louis' de Clermont by Édouard Pingret , 1835, after an older original

Louis de Clermont, seigneur de Bussy d'Amboise (* 1549 , † 1579 ) was a French nobleman from the time of King Henry III. - full of courage and courage, proud, often violent and provocative. He is a relative of Georges d'Amboise , the cardinal and minister of Louis XII.

Life

Like his cousin, the writer François d'Amboise , he accompanied Henry, then still Duke of Anjou , to Poland for his election as king. He later entered the service of the Duke of Alençon , younger brother and rival of Henry, and became his favorite . He quickly became known at court, where he appears to have been Queen Margot's lover .

Suspicious and provocative of the king's party, Bussy took part in the intrigues that took place at court between Heinrich and his brother. He openly mocked the king's mignons , with whom he often fought in duels. He helped the Duke of Alençon escape from the court where Heinrich had kept him.

In 1572, Bussy was one of the perpetrators on Bartholomew's Night , in which he - among others - murdered Antoine de Clermont , his relative, against whom he tried and whose castle he subsequently seized. Eventually he fell victim to his own arrogance when attempting to seduce the Mistress of Montsoreau and was killed in an ambush her husband laid on him.

Louis de Bussy d'Amboise is the central figure in Alexandre Dumas' novel La Dame de Monsoreau . In Dumas' play Henri III et sa cour from 1829 he is one of the main characters. In addition, the title character of the plays Bussy d'Ambois (1607) and The Revenge of Bussy d'Ambois (1613) by the English writer George Chapman .

literature

• André Joubert: Un mignon de la cour de Henri III. Louis de Clermont sieur de Bussy d'Amboise, governor d'Anjou . Germain et G. Grassin, Angers 1885 ( PDF; 6.4 MB ).