Nicole de Savigny

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Nicole de Savigny (* 1535 - † February 4, 1590 ) was baroness of Saint-Remy and a mistress of the French king Henry II .

Life

Nicole, who came from a family in Lorraine , married Jean de Ville, Seigneur von Fontette and Saint-Rémy, with whom she had two children. Her son André de Ville succeeded his father as seigneur, and her daughter Elisabeth became a nun .

Her husband's death in 1552 made her a widow at just 17 years old. She moved to the French royal court and became the mistress of Henry II there in 1556 , until the latter turned back to Diane de Poitiers less than a year later . Nicole's son André, who had succeeded his father in the Seigneurien, broke with the mother about her way of life and referred her to his castle in Fontette .

From Nicole's brief relationship with the king, her second son Henri de Saint-Rémy (1557–1621) emerged, but he was not legitimized by the ruler because Henry II doubted his paternity. That is why Henri was nicknamed the Bastard of Valois . Jeanne de Saint-Rémy , known from the collar affair , was the seventh generation of his descendants.

Nicole's son André died early and without leaving any descendants, so that his mother inherited the family property. From then on she called herself Dame de Fontette, Noyer, Beauvoir, Charmay et Chastellier . After the end of their love affair, Nicole de Savigny retired to her country estate in Fontette and once again made a name for herself when she tried to sue the Archbishop of Besançon , Claude de La Baume , for keeping a vow of marriage. However, this action was dismissed by the Roman Rota in December 1567 .

Nicole's will, written on January 12, 1590, makes it clear that Henry II, despite doubts about his fatherhood, took good care of his possible son. A promise made by him in 1558 to pay Nicole 30,000 Écus sol as a kind of dowry for Henri was made by King Henry III. Redeemed in February 1577.

literature

  • René de Belleval: Les Bâtards de la maison de France . Vivien, Paris 1901, pp. 23-27 ( online ).
  • Jean-François Dreux du Radier: Mémoires historiques, critiques, et anecdotes des reines et régentes de France . Volume 4. Paul Renouard, Paris 1827, pp. 340-341 ( online ).
  • Gaston Sirjean : Encyclopédie généalogique des maisons souveraines du monde . Volume 8. Paris 1963, ISBN 2-7777-0003-6 .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ R. de Belleval: Les Bâtards de la maison de France , p. 24.
  2. ↑ Lucien Paul Victor Febvre: Philippe II et la Franche-Comté . Honoré Champion, Paris 1912, p. 491.
  3. ^ R. de Belleval: Les Bâtards de la maison de France , p. 23.
  4. ^ Société d'émulation du Doubs: Mémoires de la Société d'émulation du Doubs . 6th series, volume 6. Dodivers & Cie., Besançon 1892, p. 108 ( online ).
  5. ^ Jean-Baptiste-Pierre Jullien de Courcelles : Dictionnaire universel de la noblesse de France . Volume 4. Bureau général de la noblesse de France, Paris 1821, p. 155 ( online ).
personal data
SURNAME Savigny, Nicole de
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Baroness of Saint-Remy and mistress of the French King Henry II.
DATE OF BIRTH 1535
DATE OF DEATH February 4, 1590