• Thumbnail for Françoise-Athénaïs de Rochechouart, Marquise de Montespan
    Françoise-Athénaïs de Rochechouart de Mortemart, Marquise of Montespan (5 October 1640 – 27 May 1707), commonly known as Madame de Montespan (French: [madam...
    31 KB (3,286 words) - 08:58, 5 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for Françoise Marie de Bourbon
    Louis XIV of France and his maîtresse-en-titre, Françoise-Athénaïs de Rochechouart, Marquise de Montespan. At the age of 14, she married her first cousin...
    26 KB (3,003 words) - 01:01, 4 March 2024
  • Thumbnail for Françoise d'Aubigné, Marquise de Maintenon
    de Maintenon in the French film The Death of Louis XIV. de Rochechouart de Mortemart, Françoise-Athénaïs (1899). The Memoirs of Madame de Montespan....
    29 KB (3,709 words) - 18:51, 4 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for Louise Françoise, Princess of Condé
    his maîtresse-en-titre Françoise-Athénaïs, Marquise de Montespan. She was said to have been named after her godmother, Louise de La Vallière, the woman...
    32 KB (2,951 words) - 00:09, 1 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Louis Joseph, Prince of Condé
    Bourbon, legitimated daughter of Louis XIV and Françoise-Athénaïs de Rochechouart, Marquise de Montespan. During his father's lifetime, the infant Louis Joseph...
    16 KB (1,733 words) - 14:48, 2 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for Gabrielle de Rochechouart de Mortemart
    older sister of Françoise de Rochechouart de Mortemart, Madame de Montespan. Gabrielle was the eldest child of Gabriel de Rochechouart de Mortemart and...
    5 KB (428 words) - 16:42, 27 July 2023
  • Thumbnail for Gabriel de Rochechouart, 1st Duke of Mortemart
    Gabriel de Rochechouart, 1st Duke of Mortemart (1600 – 26 December 1675) was a French nobleman and father of the Marquise de Montespan. He was a friend...
    8 KB (538 words) - 16:09, 4 August 2023
  • Thumbnail for House of Rochechouart
    with Racine; Françoise-Athénaïs (1640–1705), known as Madame de Montespan, was Louis XIV's favourite from 1667 to 1680. Under the Marquise's influence,...
    44 KB (4,660 words) - 02:26, 20 December 2023
  • Thumbnail for Louis Alexandre, Count of Toulouse
    Françoise-Athénaïs, marquise de Montespan. At the age of five, he became grand admiral of France. Born at the Château de Clagny in Versailles, Louis Alexandre de Bourbon...
    12 KB (956 words) - 21:16, 12 March 2024
  • Thumbnail for Louise Marie Anne de Bourbon
    Maîtresse-en-titre, Madame de Montespan. She died in early childhood. Louise Marie Anne de Bourbon was born at the Château de Saint-Germain-en-Laye on 18...
    5 KB (412 words) - 00:31, 30 April 2023
  • Thumbnail for Surintendante de la Maison de la Reine
    Countess of Soissons 1679–1683: Françoise-Athénaïs de Rochechouart, Marquise de Montespan 1725–1741: Marie Anne de Bourbon 1741–1768: Abolished 1775–1792:...
    3 KB (350 words) - 20:18, 28 December 2023
  • Louis Marie, Duke of Rambouillet (category Burials at the Chapelle royale de Dreux)
    paternal grandfather, Louis-Alexandre de Bourbon, comte de Toulouse, was one of the many children that Madame de Montespan presented to the Sun King during...
    5 KB (294 words) - 21:23, 30 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Princess Joséphine of Lorraine
    married Louis Alexandre de Bourbon in May 1768. Louis Alexandre was a grandson of Louis XIV and Françoise-Athénaïs de Rochechouart, Marquise de Montespan...
    5 KB (352 words) - 10:16, 2 January 2023
  • Thumbnail for Dame du Palais
    Thérèse de la Châtre, Duchesse la Marêchale de Humiéres Françoise-Athénaïs de Rochechouart, Marquise de Montespan Marguerite-Louise-Suzanne de Béthune...
    28 KB (3,537 words) - 13:17, 13 December 2023
  • Thumbnail for Notre-Dame-des-Champs, Paris
    Carmelite convent where both Louise de La Vallière and Françoise-Athénaïs de Rochechouart, Marquise de Montespan both retired from the French court and...
    11 KB (1,061 words) - 20:47, 2 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Louis Auguste, Duke of Maine
    (she as the marquise de Surgeres). On 19 December 1673, when Louis-Auguste was three years old, Louis XIV legitimised his children by Montespan by letters...
    18 KB (2,295 words) - 17:39, 24 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Marie Victoire de Noailles
    Gondrin, marquis de Montespan (1640–1701) and of his wife, Françoise Athénaïs de Rochechouart de Mortemart, marquise de Montespan. Thus, while her first...
    7 KB (870 words) - 01:08, 4 March 2024
  • Madame de Montespan, resigned the Duchy of Antin and gave it to his grandson who was fifteen at the time. On 29 October 1722, he married Françoise Gillonne...
    7 KB (552 words) - 01:09, 4 March 2024
  • Thumbnail for Marie Anne de Bourbon (1697–1741)
    XIV of France and his maîtresse-en-titre, Madame de Montespan. She was known as Mademoiselle de Clermont. The fourth daughter and the fifth child of...
    9 KB (747 words) - 01:13, 4 March 2024
  • Thumbnail for Louis César, Count of Vexin
    January 1683) was a son of Louis XIV of France and his mistress Madame de Montespan. He was the Abbot of Saint-Denis and of Saint-Germain-des-Prés. Louis...
    7 KB (681 words) - 22:37, 25 March 2024
  • Thumbnail for Maîtresse-en-titre
    Louise Françoise de la Baume le Blanc de la Vallière (1644–1710), duchesse de la Vallière and duchesse de Vaujours Françoise-Athénaïs de Rochechouart de Mortemart...
    7 KB (683 words) - 14:48, 11 June 2024
  • chambermaid (femme de chambre) of Françoise-Athénaïs de Rochechouart, Marquise of Montespan (1640 –1707). Madame de Montespan had been the maîtresse-en-titre (official...
    9 KB (1,033 words) - 18:31, 27 April 2024
  • Louise de La Vallière (1644–1710), duchess of Vaujours 1667–1681: Françoise-Athénaïs de Rochechouart de Mortemart (1640–1707), marquise of Montespan 1678–1681:...
    16 KB (1,820 words) - 23:59, 29 January 2024
  • Thumbnail for Pastoral Concert
    1671. The painting was later owned in 1736 to Françoise-Athénaïs de Rochechouart, Marquise de Montespan's son, Duc d' Antin and his collection at the Palace...
    23 KB (2,930 words) - 22:57, 5 December 2023
  • Thumbnail for Bourbon-Penthièvre
    apartments of Françoise-Athénaïs de Montespan, the mother of the duc du Maine, the comte de Toulouse, the duchesse d'Orléans and the princesse de Condé. On...
    20 KB (2,218 words) - 14:18, 6 December 2023
  • Thumbnail for Lussac-les-Châteaux
    was the birthplace of the famous mistress to Louis XIV, Françoise-Athénaïs, marquise de Montespan (1640–1707). Communes of the Vienne department "Répertoire...
    10 KB (1,285 words) - 08:06, 17 February 2024
  • Thumbnail for House of Bourbon-Maine
    first-born illegitimate son of Louis XIV of France and his mistress, Madame de Montespan. Immediately after his birth in 1670, he was entrusted to the care of...
    7 KB (360 words) - 21:32, 30 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Abzac, Charente
    fourchee" then the Rochechouart family which explains how it was that Françoise Athénaïs Rochechouart of Mortenart Marquise de Montespan stayed there with...
    23 KB (2,589 words) - 11:26, 15 February 2024
  • May 24 – Henri Albert de La Grange d'Arquien, French Catholic cardinal (b. 1613) May 27 – Françoise-Athénaïs de Rochechouart de Mortemart, mistress of...
    443 bytes (29,084 words) - 16:20, 23 April 2024