ROYAL DUKES OF BERRY.
Comte de Poitou 1356
Royal Lieutenant-General of the King 1380.
Son of: Jean II de France & Bonne de Luxembourg.
Husband of:
1. Jeanne d'Armagnac mar 1360
2. Jeanne II d'Auvergne mar 1389
Personal qualities.
" . . . The details of John's political behavior, especially the years following the assassination of his nephew Louis d'Orleans in 1407, show him to have been unethical, unreliable, and selfish. Despite this evidence, contemporaries viewed him as gregarious, eloquent, and philanthropic. He did show both consistency and determination in his ecclesiastical policy, being the French prince most committed to ending the papal schism." (Key Figures in Medieval Europe: An Encyclopedia: 381)
His lover was:
1) A Scotch woman.
Natural offspring:
1. Jeanne d'Armagnac mar 1360
2. Jeanne II d'Auvergne mar 1389
Personal qualities.
" . . . The details of John's political behavior, especially the years following the assassination of his nephew Louis d'Orleans in 1407, show him to have been unethical, unreliable, and selfish. Despite this evidence, contemporaries viewed him as gregarious, eloquent, and philanthropic. He did show both consistency and determination in his ecclesiastical policy, being the French prince most committed to ending the papal schism." (Key Figures in Medieval Europe: An Encyclopedia: 381)
His lover was:
1) A Scotch woman.
Natural offspring:
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Charles-Ferdinand, Duc de Berry |
Charles-Ferdinand, Duc de Berry (1778-1820)
Husband of: Maria Carolina de Due Sicilia. mar 1816.
Duc de Berry's mistresses -- his penchant for actresses.
"There certainly seemed to be very little hope of reformation in the morals of the Duc de Berry, for his extra-conjugal attachments were by no means confined to Virginie. There was a Mlle. Sophie de la Roche. . . There was also a Mlle. Deux de la Roserie, who lived in the Place-Vendome; a Mlle. de Saint-Ange, who played saucy soubrettes at the Theatre-Francais; a Mlle. Resica Lebreton, also an actress; a Mlle. Grandjean: a Mlle. Caroline Brocard, like Virginie Oreille, a star of the Operatic firmament; a Madame Bellamy, a bewitching widow; and, it is to be feared, not a few others, whose names, however, history has not preserved." (A Princess of Adventure: 118)
"There certainly seemed to be very little hope of reformation in the morals of the Duc de Berry, for his extra-conjugal attachments were by no means confined to Virginie. There was a Mlle. Sophie de la Roche. . . There was also a Mlle. Deux de la Roserie, who lived in the Place-Vendome; a Mlle. de Saint-Ange, who played saucy soubrettes at the Theatre-Francais; a Mlle. Resica Lebreton, also an actress; a Mlle. Grandjean: a Mlle. Caroline Brocard, like Virginie Oreille, a star of the Operatic firmament; a Madame Bellamy, a bewitching widow; and, it is to be feared, not a few others, whose names, however, history has not preserved." (A Princess of Adventure: 118)
Maintaining an exhaustive schedule of extramarital liaisons.
" . . . De Berry, despite finding his wife adorable, nonetheless maintained an exhaustive schedule of extramarital liaisons the likes of Marie-Sophie de la Roche, Josephine Deux de la Roserie, and a Mademoiselle de Saint-Ange, who were all members of the Comedie-Francaise, another actress named Resica Lebreton, the ballerina Eugenie-Virginia Oreille, and others, including Louise Thiryfoq, who gave birth to a daughter fathered by de Berry." (Marie-Therese: Child of Terror: 281)
" . . . De Berry, despite finding his wife adorable, nonetheless maintained an exhaustive schedule of extramarital liaisons the likes of Marie-Sophie de la Roche, Josephine Deux de la Roserie, and a Mademoiselle de Saint-Ange, who were all members of the Comedie-Francaise, another actress named Resica Lebreton, the ballerina Eugenie-Virginia Oreille, and others, including Louise Thiryfoq, who gave birth to a daughter fathered by de Berry." (Marie-Therese: Child of Terror: 281)
Enjoying plenty of mistresses while in exile.
"By 1814, after twenty-years away from France the Duke of Berry had grown accustomed to life as an emigre. He enjoyed a privileged existence that, while not quite on a par with his Versailles years prior to the Revolution, was more than comfortable. He was wealthy, married, and had two healthy daughters. He enjoyed plenty of mistresses, along with the pleasures of hunting, riding, dancing, and gentlemen's clubs. He was even able to lay claim to a career as a soldier, the result of his joining Conde's counter-revolutionary army in the 1790s. History dictated, however, that his exile would come to an end." (Assassination, Politics, and Miracles: France and the Royalist Reaction of 1829: 4)
"By 1814, after twenty-years away from France the Duke of Berry had grown accustomed to life as an emigre. He enjoyed a privileged existence that, while not quite on a par with his Versailles years prior to the Revolution, was more than comfortable. He was wealthy, married, and had two healthy daughters. He enjoyed plenty of mistresses, along with the pleasures of hunting, riding, dancing, and gentlemen's clubs. He was even able to lay claim to a career as a soldier, the result of his joining Conde's counter-revolutionary army in the 1790s. History dictated, however, that his exile would come to an end." (Assassination, Politics, and Miracles: France and the Royalist Reaction of 1829: 4)
"Two years after the start of the French Revolution, Berry's family slipped out of France under cover of darkness and set up residence in London, where the young duke remained as an emigre for the next two decades. Berry became a well-liked, jovial man who made friends easily, although he was considered by many to be somewhat rough-mannered, not to mention proud, petty, and vain. In 1804, he met Amy Brown, the widowed daughter of a Protestant pastor. Without asking permission of his family, and ignoring the fact that Brown was not Catholic, Berry married her in a ceremony conducted by her father. The couple soon had two daughters: Charlotte in 1808 and Louise in 1809." (Assassination, Politics, and Miracles: France and the Royalist Reaction of 1829: 3)
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Charlotte, Comtesse d'Issoudun & Louise, Comtesse de Vierzon |
Natural offspring:
a. Charlotte-Marie-Augustine de Bourbon, Comtesse d'Issoudun 1820 (1808-1886) mar 1823 Ferdinand-Victor-Amedee de Faucigny-Lucigne, 1st Prince de Lucigne
b. Louise-Marie-Charlotte de Bourbon, Comtesse de Vierzon (1809-1891) married 1827 Charles, Baron de la Contrie
2) Eugenie-Virginie Oreille (1795-1875)
French dancer
Natural offspring:
a. Charles-Louis-Auguste Oreille de Carriere (1815-1858) mar 1846 Elisabeth Jugan
b. Ferdinand Oreille de Carriere (1820-1876) mar 1860 Louise-Eugenie Ancelle
Keeping a lengthy liaison amidst royal duty.
" . . . Ironically, Berry might have been better off marrying his mistress, a dancer named Virginia Oreille whom he had met during the First Restoration. He somehow found the time to carry on a lengthy liaison with her, in addition to his military duties, his ceremonial obligations, the aforementioned social functions, and his dynastic duty vis-a-vis the duchess. Oreille had already given Berry a son, named Charles, on 4 March 1815." (Assassination, Politics, and Miracles: 7)
" . . . Ironically, Berry might have been better off marrying his mistress, a dancer named Virginia Oreille whom he had met during the First Restoration. He somehow found the time to carry on a lengthy liaison with her, in addition to his military duties, his ceremonial obligations, the aforementioned social functions, and his dynastic duty vis-a-vis the duchess. Oreille had already given Berry a son, named Charles, on 4 March 1815." (Assassination, Politics, and Miracles: 7)
The fate of his natural offspring.
"The elder son, Charles Ferdinand, born in 1817, was, after the death of the Duc de Berry, treated with great kindness by the Royal Family. As he grew up, he bore the most striking resemblance to his father, for which reason, perhaps, the Duchesse de Berry took a great interest in him. She procured him a commission first in an infantry and afterwards in a cavalry regiment in the Austrian army, and during the later years of the princess's life he frequently visited her at Brunsee. The Comte de la Roche was still alive a few years ago, at which time he was residing at Gratz. His younger brother, also called Charles Ferdinand, was, like the Comte de Chambord, a posthumous son, being born in 1820, a few weeks after the Duc de Berry's assassination. He studied painting under Paul Delaroche, became himself a painter of some distinction, and exhibited portraits of Napoleon III. and the Empress Eugenie at the Salon of 1857. He married a Mile. Dole, by whom he had two sons, who both followed their father's profession. — Vicomte de Reiset, les Enfants du duc de Berry." (A Princess of Adventure: 118)
"The elder son, Charles Ferdinand, born in 1817, was, after the death of the Duc de Berry, treated with great kindness by the Royal Family. As he grew up, he bore the most striking resemblance to his father, for which reason, perhaps, the Duchesse de Berry took a great interest in him. She procured him a commission first in an infantry and afterwards in a cavalry regiment in the Austrian army, and during the later years of the princess's life he frequently visited her at Brunsee. The Comte de la Roche was still alive a few years ago, at which time he was residing at Gratz. His younger brother, also called Charles Ferdinand, was, like the Comte de Chambord, a posthumous son, being born in 1820, a few weeks after the Duc de Berry's assassination. He studied painting under Paul Delaroche, became himself a painter of some distinction, and exhibited portraits of Napoleon III. and the Empress Eugenie at the Salon of 1857. He married a Mile. Dole, by whom he had two sons, who both followed their father's profession. — Vicomte de Reiset, les Enfants du duc de Berry." (A Princess of Adventure: 118)
3) Louise-Melanie Thiryfoq (?-1887)
Natural offspring:
a. Louise-Charlotte-Antoinette-Aglae Thiryfoq (1819-1843) mar 1839 Gaston du Charron, Comte du Portail
4) Lucie Cosnefroy de Saint-Ange (1797-1870)
Natural offspring:
a. Alix-Melanie Cosnefroy de Saint-Ange (1820-1892)
5) Marie-Sophie de La Roche (1795-1833)
Lover in 1815/16.
Lover in 1815/16.
French actress & royal mistress.
Natural offspring:
a. Ferdinand de La Roche (1817-1908) mar 1849 Claudine-Gabrielle-Claire de Bachet de Meziriac
b. Charles de La Roche (1820-1901) mar 1840 Julie Dole.
"There was a Mile. Sophie de la Roche, of whom certain authors make an actress of the Comedie-Francaise, and others a sempstress employed at the Elysee, but who was, in point of fact, a young lady of a highly respectable family, which had been ruined by the Revolution, and in whose re- establishment the prince had interested himself. Mile de la Roche's blue eyes and golden tresses so pleased the Duc de Berry that he continued his attentions to her from 1815 or 1816 down to the time of his death, and, in gratitude for the zeal which his Royal Highness had shown on behalf of her family, she presented him with two fine boys." (A Princess of Adventure: Marie Caroline, Duchesse de Berry: 117)
6) Mary Bullhorn.
Scottish actress
Natural offspring:
a. Marie de la Boulaye (1807-?) mar Henri-Louis Berard.
The Office of the Maitresse-en-Titre.
"The office of the maitresse-en-titre originated in the sixteenth century when Charles VII (r. 1322-1463) positioned his mistress Agnes Sorel at Court. Of course, Charles VII was far from the first king of France to have an extramarital lover, but he did formalize his mistress' place at court in unprecedented ways that eclipsed the role of even the queen. Since then, the maitresse-en-titre had served as a cultural patron, appeared in public functions alongside the king, and was the subject of artwork that was openly displayed at court. Although not a relationship that had the traditional inviolability of a marriage, the ties between the king and the 'official mistress' nonetheless had its own legitimacy as as its own 'rules' to be observed by both partners." (Decadence, Radicalism, and the Early Modern French Nobility: The Enlightened and Depraved: 97)
The Office of the Maitresse-en-Titre.
"The office of the maitresse-en-titre originated in the sixteenth century when Charles VII (r. 1322-1463) positioned his mistress Agnes Sorel at Court. Of course, Charles VII was far from the first king of France to have an extramarital lover, but he did formalize his mistress' place at court in unprecedented ways that eclipsed the role of even the queen. Since then, the maitresse-en-titre had served as a cultural patron, appeared in public functions alongside the king, and was the subject of artwork that was openly displayed at court. Although not a relationship that had the traditional inviolability of a marriage, the ties between the king and the 'official mistress' nonetheless had its own legitimacy as as its own 'rules' to be observed by both partners." (Decadence, Radicalism, and the Early Modern French Nobility: The Enlightened and Depraved: 97)
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