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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