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| Francois I of Brittany @Wikipedia |
(1414-1450)
Duc de Bretagne
1442-1450
Comte de Montfort-L-Aumary
Comte de Richmond.
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| Francois I of Brittany @Wikipedia |
His lover was:
Unnamed mistress.
Natural Offspring:
Jeanne de Bretagne.
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| Francois II of Brittany |
(1433-1488)
Duke of Brittany
1458-1488
Son of Jean V de Bretagne & Jeanne de France.
Husband of:
1. Yolande d'Anjou (d.1440), mar 1431
His lover was:
Antoinette de Maignelais (1434-1474)
Lover in 1461.
Daughter of: Jean II de Maignelais & Marie de Jouy.
Wife of: Andre, Baron de Villequier (d.1454), King's first gentleman of the bed.
"Anne's birth on January 25, 1477, was heralded with relief and joy. Brittany finally had its heir; the continued rule of the Montforts, the ruling family of Brittany for the past 130 years, was now conceivable. When Anne was born, Francis II, her father and the duke of Brittany, was forty years old. His first wife had died without leaving any descendants; he had been married to his second wife for some time but had only fathered children by his mistress Antoinette of Maignelais (Agnes Sorel's cousin and Charles VII's former mistress, who had abandoned him for the young, handsome duke of Brittany). Francis neglected his wives for the company of Antoinette---a woman seventeen years his senior, whom 'he cherished beyond measure, holding her in great estate, even higher than his wife'---charged the contemporary historian Bertrand d'Argentre, who also claimed that Francis's first wife, Marguerite of Brittany, had died of embarrassment at her displacement by her husband's mistress. His second wife, Marguerite de Foix, objected less to her husband's extramarital relationship, but only after Antoinette's death did she give birth to Anne." (Queens and Mistresses of Renaissance France)
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