Gabrielle de Rochechouart, dame de Lansac
Gabrielle de Rochechouart, dame de Lansac (27 October[1] 1530[2] – 1580[2]), was a lady-in-waiting, a Dame d'honneur or Dame du Palais to Catherine de' Medici.[3]
She was the wife of Louis de Lusignan de Saint-Gelais (1515/13[4]–1589[4]), Seigneur de Lansac,[5] Baron of La Motte Saint-Héray and of Précy. He was the natural son of King François I and his mistress Jacquette de Lansac, wife of Alexandre Saint-Gelais.[6][7][8][9][10]
Louis, Seigneur de Lansac, was State Councilor, Ambassador in 1554, captain of 100 men-at-arms, knight of the order of Saint-Michel on September and knight of the order of the Holy Spirit. Gabrielle was the niece of Aimery de Rochechouart, bishop of Sisteron,[11] who had succeeded his uncle Albin de Rochechouart in that position.[12]
Her parents were François de Rochechouart (b. 25 December 1502), Baron de Mortemart, Seigneur de Tonnay-Charente and Vivonne, knight of the order of the king, and Renée Taveau, only daughter and heiress of Leon Taveau, Baron de Mortemer, and Jeanne Frotier. Gabrielle's parents' marriage took place on 16 November 1509, when her father was seven years old. Gabrielle herself was either 16 (N.S.) or 17 (O.S.) at her first marriage to François de Goulaines, Seigneur de Martigné-Brittard. The marriage contract is dated 13 February 1547.[note 1] Her second marriage, by contract dated 9 March 1558,[13] was to François de Volvire, Chevalier, Baron de Ruffec, Vicomte du Bois-de-la-Roche, the son of René de Volvire, Baron de Ruffec[13] and Catherine de Montauban, his first wife. Gabrielle's third and last marriage, to Louis de Saint-Gelais, Seigneur de Lansac, took place on 8 October[14] 1565. Her sister Madeleine married in 1554 Baudouin de Goulaines, the brother of her sister's first husband.[1]
Portraits[edit]
Like her royal mistress Catherine de' Medici and fellow ladies-in-waiting Fulvia Pico della Mirandola, Comtesse de Randan and Louise d'Halluin, dame de Cipierre, Gabrielle de Rochechouart, dame de Lansac was the subject of several portraits famous today. Attributed to Corneille de Lyon, the workshop of Corneille de Lyon, or the school of Corneille de Lyon, two are today at the Musée Conde,[2][16] while one is at the Frick art Museum, Pennsylvania.[15] The painting now in the Frick Art Museum, Pennsylvania, was once known as Lady Jane Grey. Lee Porritt writes that a similar copy also with the blue background with an inscription and a plaque identifying the sitter as Gabrielle de Rochechouart, Dame de Lansac had been donated in 1897 to The Musée Condé by Henri d’Orléans, Duke of Aumale along with other paintings from the Duke of Sutherland's collection.[17]
Footnotes[edit]
- ^ France changed New Year's Day to 1 January from 1564. Previously France had counted various days as New Year's Day: Christmas, Easter-eve, 25 March (Lady Day).
References[edit]
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- ^ a b c d "Portrait dit de Gabrielle de Rochechouart dame de Lansac (1530-1580)?". www.musee-conde.fr. Retrieved 2023-03-26.
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- ^ Patrick van Kerrebrouck, Christophe Brun et Christian de Mérindol, Les Valois : Nouvelle histoire généalogique de l'auguste maison de France, vol. 3, 1990.
- ^ Lucien Romier (1922). Le Royaume de Catherine de Médicis : la France à la veille des guerres de religion. Paris: Perrin et Cie.
- ^ Gérard Le Bouëdec, Christophe Cérino, , Pouvoirs et littoraux du du xve au xxe siècle: actes du colloque international de Lorient, 24, 25, 26 septembre 1998, Presses Universitaires de Rennes, 2000
- ^ Laurent Coste, Messieurs de Bordeaux : pouvoirs et hommes de pouvoir à l'hôtel de ville, 1548-1789, Fédération historique du Sud-Ouest, 2006
- ^ Mickaël Augeron, Dominique Guillemet, Champlain ou les portes du nouveau-monde : cinq siècles d'échanges entre le centre-ouest français et l'Amérique du Nord, xvie – xxe siècles, Geste, 2004
- ^ "Saint-Gelais, Louis de (1512?-1589 ; seigneur de Lansac)". FranceArchives (in French). Retrieved 2023-03-26.
- ^ "Page:Lives of Fair and Gallant Ladies Volume I.djvu/418 - Wikisource, the free online library". en.wikisource.org. Retrieved 2023-03-26.
- ^ a b Sainte-Marie, Anselme de (1728). Histoire généalogique et chronologique de la Maison Royale de France, des pairs, des grands officiers de la Couronne & de la Maison du Roy : & des anciens barons du Royaume... Par le P. Anselme,... continuée par M. Du Fourny. Troisième édition, revûë, corrigée & augmentée par les soins du P. Ange & du P. Simplicien... (in French). par la compagnie des libraires associez.
- ^ Roux, Nicolas Le (2001). La faveur du roi: mignons et courtisans au temps des derniers Valois (in French). Editions Champ Vallon. ISBN 978-2-87673-311-4.
- ^ a b c "Gabrielle de Rochechouart, Dame de Lansac - Corneille de Lyon". Google Arts & Culture. Retrieved 2023-03-26.
- ^ "Portrait présumé de Gabrielle de Rochechouart, dame de Lansac - Réplique - oeuvre en rapport". www.musee-conde.fr. Retrieved 2023-03-26.
- ^ Revisited, Lady Jane Grey (2020-05-08). "The Frick Portrait". Lady Jane Grey Revisited. Retrieved 2023-03-26.