List of French Royal Mistresses

This page contains a listing of notable French royal mistresses.


Clovis I

  • Evochilde

Chlothar I

  • Waldrada, Princess of the Lombards
  • Valtrude of the Lombards
  • Arnegundis

Charibert I

  • Merofleda
  • Clothilde
  • Marcovefa
  • Theogilda

Chilperic I

  • Fredgunde d'Ardennes

Dagobert I

  • Regintrude of Austrasia
  • Berthilde

Charlemagne

  • Gersuinda of the Saxons
  • Amaltrud of Vienne
  • Ethelind
  • Sigrade
  • Madelgard
  • Regina
  • Landrade des Herbages
  • Adelindus

Louis the Pious

  • Theodelinde of Sens

Louis the Stammerer

  • Luitgrade of Saxony
  • Adelheid of Paris

Charles the Simple ·Edgiva of Kent

  • Frederuna von Ringleheim

Charles V

  • Biette de Casinel (ca 1340 - ca 1380)

Charles VI

  • Odette de Champdivers (ca 1384 - 1424)

Charles VII

  • Agnès Sorel (ca 1422 - 1450)
  • Antoinette de Maignelais (ca 1430 - ca 1461)

Louis XI

  • Phélisé Regnard
  • Marguerite de Sassenage (ca 1449 - 1471)

Francis I

  • Françoise de Foix (1495 - 1537), countess of Châteaubriant
  • Anne de Pisseleu d'Heilly (1508 - 1580), duchess of Étampes
  • Mary Boleyn (1500 - 1543) (disputed)

Henry II

  • Diane de Poitiers (1499 - 1566)
  • Jane Fleming (or Jane Stewart) (ca 1508 - ca 1553)
  • Filippa Duci (ca 1520 - ?)
  • Nicole de Savigny (1535 - 1590), baroness of Fontette

Charles IX

  • Marie Touchet (ca 1553 - 1638)

Henry III

  • Louise de La Béraudière du Rouhet
  • Renée de Rieux de Châteauneuf
  • Veronica Franco (1546 - 1591)
  • Marie van Kleef (1553 - 1574), countess of Beaufort

Henry IV

  • Diane d'Andoins (1554 - 1621)
  • Françoise de Montmorency (1562 - ?)
  • Esther Imbert (1570 - ca. 1593)
  • Antoinette de Pons (1570 - 1632)
  • Gabrielle d'Estrées (ca 1571 - 1599)
  • Catherine Henriette de Balzac d'Entragues (1579 - 1633), marquise of Verneuil
  • Jacqueline de Bueil (ca 1580 - 1651)
  • Charlotte des Essarts (ca 1580 - 1651)
  • Charlotte-Marguerite de Montmorency (1594 - 1650), princess of Condé
  • Charlotte de Sauve (c.1551- 1617)

Louis XIII

  • Marie de Hautefort (1616 - 1691)
  • Louise de La Fayette (ca 1616 - 1665)

Louis XIV

  • Catherine Bellier (1614 - 1689), baronne de Beauvais
  • Olympe Mancini (1638 — 1708)
  • Lucie de la Motte-Argencourt
  • Mademoiselle de Marivault
  • Marie Mancini (1639 - 1715)
  • A gardener's daughter who gave birth to a daughter
  • Hortense Mancini (1646 – 1699)
  • Henrietta Anne of England (1644 - 1670), his sister-in-law
  • Louise de La Vallière (1644 - 1710), duchess of Vaujours
  • Anne-Lucie de la Mothe-Houdancourt (1641-1709)
  • Catherine-Charlotte de Gramont (1639 - 1678), princess of Monaco
  • Françoise-Athénaïs de Rochechouart de Mortemart (1640 - 1707), marquise of Montespan
  • Gabrielle de Rochechouart de Mortemart (1633-1693), marquise of Thianges; sister of the above;
  • Anne de Rohan-Chabot (1648 - 1709), princess of Soubise
  • Françoise d'Aubigné (1635 - 1719), marquise of Maintenon
  • Claude de Vin des Œillets (ca 1637 - 1687)
  • Isabelle de Ludres (1687 - 1722)
  • Marie Angélique de Scoraille de Roussille (1661 - 1681), duchess of Fontanges
  • Charlotte-Éléonore Madeleine de la Motte Houdancourt, Duchesse de Ventadour (1654–1744)

Louis XV

  • Louise Julie de Mailly (1710 - 1751), countess of Mailly
  • Pauline-Félicité de Mailly (1712 - 1741), marquise of Vintimille
  • Diane-Adélaïde de Mailly (1713 - 1760), duchess of Lauraguais
  • Marie-Anne de Mailly (1717 – 1744), marquise of La Tournelle, duchess of Châteauroux
  • Jeanne Antoinette Poisson (1721 - 1764), marquise of Pompadour
  • Jeanne Bécu (1743 - 1793), countess du Barry
  • Marie-Louise O'Murphy (1737 - 1815)
  • Françoise de Châlus (1734 - 1821), duchess of Narbonne-Lara
  • Marguerite Catherine Haynault (1736 - 1823), marquise of Montmélas
  • Lucie Madeleine d'Estaing (1743 - 1826)
  • Anne Couffier de Romans (1737 - 1808), baroness of Meilly-Coulonge
  • Louise Jeanne Tiercelin de La Colleterie (1746 - 1779), called Madame de Bonneval
  • Irène du Buisson de Longpré (? - 1767)
  • Catherine Éléonore Bénard (1740 - 1769)
  • Marie Thérèse Françoise Boisselet (1731 - 1800)

Louis XVIII

  • Zoé Talon (1785 - 1852), countess of Cayla
  • Emma Ferguson
  • Oliver Fairhurst

Louis Philippe I

  • Rosalie Duthé (1748–1830)

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