Phelise Regnard

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Phélise Regnard (* around 1424, † January 12, 1475 ) also written Phélise Renard , Phélise Reynard and Félise Regnard , was the first mistress of the French Crown Prince Ludwig , even before his accession to the throne as Louis XI.

Life

Phélise came from the lower nobility of the Dauphiné . Her father was Aymar Regnard, seigneur de Saint-Didier, and Castellan of Beaumont. On November 2, 1447, she married Jean Pic, a commoner from Grenoble . Her family may have been impoverished and as a result she was forced into this mesalliance . The marriage lasted only five years, as Pic died in 1552 and left the Beaumont castellan to his widow.

How and when exactly Madame de Beaumont , as Phélise Regnard was called by her contemporaries, won the favor of the young Ludwig is not known, but he made her his mistress around 1442. This relationship resulted in two daughters:

The second daughter was legitimized on February 25, 1466. In the corresponding document, Phélise Regnard is explicitly listed as Jeanne's mother: “ Johanna, filia naturalis Domini Regis per eum et Phelisiam Regnard, domicellam, nunc viduam, genita, uxor Ludovici de Borbonio Comitis Rossilionis, legitimata per litteras datas Aurelianis 25 feb. 1465. Sinè financiâ. “Nevertheless, Marguerite de Sassenage , another mistress of Louis XI, is often mentioned as Jeanne's mother. The reason for this is that a book about the life of the king published in 1661 contained the information that the mother of his illegitimate daughters was his "lady from the Dauphiné, called Madame de Beaumont". In a publication by Salvaing de Boissieu from 1668, this lady is then incorrectly identified as Marguerite de Sassenage, widow of Amblard de Beaumont. This incorrect attribution has since been incorporated into numerous genealogical works.

Phélise Regnard married twice more. She entered into a second marriage to Charles de Seillons before taking Grace d'Archelles as her third husband. When Ludwig ascended the French throne in 1461 after the death of his father, he gave his former mistress the castellany of La Mure that same year.

literature

  • Jean-François Dreux du Radier: Mémoires historiques, critiques, et anecdotes des reines et régentes de France . Volume 3. Mame, Paris 1808, p. 237 ( online ).
  • Michel Durand-Delga: Qui était la mère des filles du dauphin Louis, le futur Louis XI? In: Héraldique et Généalogie. Bulletin des sociétés françaises de généalogie, d'héraldique et de sigillographie . No. 3, 1997, ISSN  1142-4966 , pp. 216, 344-347.
  • Anatole de Gallier: Phélise Regnard . In: Bulletin de la Société départementale d'Archéologie et de de statistiques de la Drôme . Volume 7, 1873, pp. 47-51 ( online ).
  • Detlev Schwennicke (Ed.): European family tables . Volume 3, part 2. Klostermann, Frankfurt am Main 1983, plate 305.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. a b Anaïs Geeraert: Favorites Royales - Les petites maîtresses de Louis XI , accessed on August 21, 2013
  2. According to Claudine Pélissie: Phélise Reynard , accessed on August 21, 2013. According to other sources, she could have died in 1474 or even 1470.
  3. a b Les Femmes dans la vie de Louis XI le berrichon , accessed on August 21, 2013.
  4. a b A. de Gallier: Phélise Regnard , p. 49.
  5. ^ Père Anselme : Histoire généalogique et chronologique de la maison royale de France… . 3. Edition. Compagnie des libraires, Paris 1726, S: 122 ( online ).
  6. Quoted from A. de Gallier: Phélise Regnard , p. 51 ".
  7. Les Favorites Royales , accessed August 21, 2013.