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| Louis I de Vendome & Blanche de Roucy |
(1376-1446)
Comte de Vendome 1393 (or 1403), Comte de Chartres, de La Marche & Castres 1425
Grand Chamberlain of France 1408; Grand Maitre de France 1413; Governor of Picardie; Governor of Champagne; Governor of Brie
Son of: Jean I de Bourbon, Comte de La Marche & Catherine de Vendome, Comtesse de Vendome, Comtesse de Castries.
Husband of:
1. Blanche de Roucy (1380-1421) mar 1414
2. Jeanne de Laval (1406-1468) mar 1424.
His lover was:
Sybille Bostum.
Englishwoman
Natural offspring:
a. Jean batard de Vendome (d.1496)
Husband of:
1. Blanche de Roucy (1380-1421) mar 1414
2. Jeanne de Laval (1406-1468) mar 1424.
His lover was:
Sybille Bostum.
Englishwoman
Natural offspring:
a. Jean batard de Vendome (d.1496)
Legitime 1449, Seigneur de Préaux, Seigneur de Vaussay, Seigneur de Bonneval married
1. Jeanne d'Illiers
2. Gillette Perdielle.
Son of: Louis de Bourbon, Comte de Vendome & Castres & Jeanne de Laval.
Husband of: Isabeau de Beauvau (1436-1475), Dame de La Roche-sur-Yon, mar 1454, daughter of Louis de Beauvau & Marguerite de Chambley.
His lovers were:
1) Guyonne Peignée.
Natural offspring:
a. Louise Batard de Vendome
Archbishop of Avranches.
2) Philippine de Gournay.
Natural offspring:
a. Jacques de Bourbon, Seigneur de Ligny (1455-?)
Son of Jean II de Bourbon, Comte de Vendome & Isabelle de Beauvau
Husband of: Marie de Luxembourg, Comtesse de Saint-Paul, mar 1487
His lover was:
Isabelle de Grigny.
Natural offspring:
a. Jacques batard de Vendome
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Husband of Françoise d'Alençon (1490-1550), mar 1513, daughter of René of Alençon & Marguerite de Lorraine
His lover was:
Nicole de Board.
Natural offspring:
a. Nicolas-Charles de Bourbon et de Board (d.1565), married Jeanne de Bordeix, Dame de Ramers.
Natural offspring:
a. Nicolas-Charles de Bourbon et de Board (d.1565), married Jeanne de Bordeix, Dame de Ramers.
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Philippe de Bourbon 4th Duke of Vendome |
Son of: Louis de Bourbon, Duc de Vendome & Laura Mancini.
" . . . At this time, Lully found a protector in his friend the duc de Vendome and in the libertine community led by the duc's brother Philippe, the 'Grand Prieur' of the knights of the order of the Hospitaliers de Saint-Jean de Jerusalem dating back to the thirteenth century. Philippe de Vendome lived in the massive old fortress in the Marais that had sheltered this order for centuries. The Temple and the surrounding community, standing outside Parisian police jurisdiction, had become a refuge for oppressed people of all kinds. La Fontaine and later Fontanelle were habitues there, as well as the libertine poets Guillaume Amfrye de Chaulieu and Charles Antoine de La Fare, the composer Henri Desmarets, and the courtesan Ninon de Lenclos. The community of the Temple when in Paris, was one of unbridled and illicit pleasures. The duc, who stayed at the Temple when in Paris, was widely known as a sodomite, and the Grand Prieur shared a mistress, a musicienne at the Opera, with the Abbe Chaulieu and the marquis de La Fare. According to La Fare's memoirs, Lully was a 'friend to all.' Campistron, the librettist of Acis et Galatee, was employed by the duc as his secretary. Saint-Simon said of him, 'Campistron was one of those dirty poets, dying of hunger, who will do anything to survive. The Abbe Chaulieu picked him up---God knows where---and took him to the home of the Grand Prieur, which . . . he [later] left life a rat from a sinking ship and burrowed into the home of M. de Vendome. Although his handwriting was not legible, he made him his secretary.'" (Louis XIV and the Land of Love and Adventure)
His lover was:
1) Francoise Moreau (1668-1743)
Lover in 1670.
French actress.
His lover was:
1) Francoise Moreau (1668-1743)
Lover in 1670.
French actress.
"Françoise 'Fanchon' Moreau (1668 – after 1743) was a French operatic soprano who belonged to the Académie Royale de Musique, also a celebrated beauty who was a favourite of the Great Dauphin. Following her older sister Louison Moreau, Fanchon made her debut at the Paris Opéra in 1683 in the prologue of Phaëton by Lully, probably playing the role of Astrée. She remained with the company until at least 1702. Her sister stayed until 1692, during which period both sisters were referred to as Mlle Moreau, which sometimes makes it difficult to determine who sang what. She sang in operas by Lully, Campra, Charpentier, Destouches, Collasse, Desmarets, and Theobaldo Gatti including many premieres. Like her sister, Fanchon received the attentions of Louis, the Great Dauphin. Julie d'Aubigny, the swordswoman and opera singer known as La Maupin, also fell in love with her and tried to commit suicide when she was rejected. Fanchon later became the long-term mistress of Philippe de Vendôme, fourth Duke of Vendôme. Fanchon's colourful love life was referred to in François Couperin's La femme entre deux draps and was also the subject of his harpsichord composition La tendre Fanchon." (Wikipedia)
"Despite his religious vows of obedience, poverty and chastity, he is a "man for a woman" who collected mistresses. The first of all was Francoise Moreau, a renowned singer and dancer of the Royal Academy of Music. In 1670, he bought the Vendome Pavilion to house her. . . ." (Wikipedia - French)
"Fanchon" & the Vendome Pavilion.
"The origins of the Vendome Pavilion are rather poorly known. It belonged from 1670 to 1693 to a Parisian banker, Jean Delaunay, whose daughter sold the pavilion in 1697 to a singer of the Royal Academy of Music, Françoise Moreau called Fanchon (a variation on Françoise). She was a well-known character. She was considered one of the most beautiful women of her time. In 1683, at the age of 15, she began as a dancer and tragedian in the opera Phaeton. Prince Philippe de Vendome, Grand Prior of France and great-grandson of Henri IV, became madly in love with it. She was his maitresse de titre for twenty years. He entertained richly the beautiful Fanchon. The Abbé de Chaulieu, his friend and financial adviser, was worried and made fun of the Grand Prior who wanted, with Fanchon, "to live the countryside six months a year like a Tartar". To be able to retire thus with his beautiful mistress, he began in 1699 the work of the pavilion to which his name remained. The very beautiful Fanchon embellished his Pavilion of Hunting by the greatest artists working in the royal shipyards: Versailles, Paris and Marly. Through the intermediary of his prince, they came to complete the decor of this noble building: the sculptor Jean-Baptiste Poultier, the sculptor Pierre Mallerot called Lapierre, the sculptor Hanard, the painter hubcap Claude III Audran. In 1702, apparently by order of the king, the beautiful Francoise Moreau was confined in a convent, which suited her ardent nature very little. She left everything, the scene, her lover Vendôme ... and in 1705 she went out to marry the Marquis de Villiers." (L'Ecrin d'Amour de Fanchon et Philippe)
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Isabelle de Ludres |
2) Isabelle de Ludres (1647-1726)
Lover in 1676.
3) Louise de Keroualle, Duchess of Portsmouth.
Lover in 1683.
Mistress of Charles II of England.
"Philippe de Vendome, born 1655, grandson of Henri IV and his mistress Gabrielle d'Estrees, led a life almost as chequered as his ancestry. His military career started in 1669, when, at the tender age of fourteen, he served under the Duc de Beaufort, Grand Admiral of France and another product of Henri IV's indiscretions, in an expedition to relieve the siege of Crete. According to some, he was a brave and steadfast soldier, by other accounts, he was sent home because he was too young. He was later described as a debauched boy, lazy, intelligent and very seductive. In 1672 he became Grand Cross ad honorem of the Order and was appointed Grand Prior of France in 1693. He served in the War of Spanish Succession as second-in-command to his brother Louis Joseph, Marshall of France. However, he continued to court scandal; pursuing the Duchess of Portsmouth (Louise de Keroualle, Royal mistress to Charles II of England), and after disobeying orders at the Battle of Cassano in 1706, was exiled to Lyon. Bored, he soon left for Venice, and after spending some months as a captive of the highwayman Mesmer, arrived to become patron of the painter Raoux. Vendome returned to France in 1710, regaining all his honours. As Grand Prior of France, he lived in the Temple, Paris, and created a 'salon' of writers and artists, including Raoux, who received a handsome pension and several major commissions to decorate the gallery of the Temple. However, Vendome was soon facing exile yet again, and, after announcing his intention to go to Malta, was prohibited from doing so by Louis XIV. He arrived in Malta on the 10th November 1713, received with all the pomp and ceremony the Order could muster. Vendome was much valued in Malta for his expertise in military matters, and there is a bastion of the Cotonera lines named after him. However, he could never return to France while Louis was alive. In 1720 he gave up the Grand Priory of France to the Duc d'Orleans, natural son of the Regent of France. He died in 1727." (Barclay)
"By the early 1680s, Louise was trusted enough by her royal lover to handle affairs of state in his absence. Yet her behavior could swing like a pendulum from entire indifference to carnality to complete depravity. She seduced Named Achmet, the Moroccan ambassador who arrived from Tangiers on a diplomatic mission in January 1682; and there was another lover in the picture as well. Toward the end of 1681, the twenty-eight-year-old Philippe de Vendome, Grand Prior of France, had come to England to visit his aunt, Hortense Mancini. The thirty-five-year-old Louise commenced a torrid love affair with this boozing womanizer that became the talk of the court and nearly cost her her courtesan's career. After Charles discovered a sheaf of compromising love letters that Louise had penned to her young swain, he sought to expel the Frenchman from England. To avoid a diplomatic incident, Louis XIV stepped in and strongly advised Vendome to forget he ever knew anyone named Louise de Keroualle." (Royal Affairs: A Lusty Romp Through the Extramarital Adventures that Rocked the British Monarchy: 220)
"In 1679, at the height of the Popish Plot terror, Louise was so frightened that she seriously considered fleeing to France. Deciding to weather the storm, she made peace with the Whig faction hoping that her son might be named as the King's successor. In March, 1682, she made a visit to France and was royally received. Back in England in July, she reigned alone over the King's heart and mind. She had only one moment of danger: in 1683 she foolishly listened to the ardent wooing of a handsome young libertine, Philippe de Vendome, Grand Prior of France, and King Charles was forced to banish the besotted nobleman. In January, 1684, King Louis XIV created Louise Duchess of Aubigny." (Court Satires of the Restoration: 277)
"Philippe de Vendome, Grand Prior of France, visited England in the summer of 1683 and made ardent love to Louise, Duchess of Portsmouth, 'the King's miss of the land.' In November, 1683, King Charles gave him forty-eight hours to leave England. (According to chronique scandaleuse, The Life of Francelia , 1734, King Charles caught the pair in bed together.). Vendome went to Holland and thence to Paris, where, presumably, he gave his letters to Talbot, who brought them to England c. 1684." (Court Satires of the Restoration: 152)
"The Duchess of Portsmouth also held gambling tables and a bank in her rooms. But the excitement of cards did not entirely absorb her. She played at the more dangerous pastime---amorous intrigue with Philippe de Vendome, Grand Prior of France. This French nobleman was grandson of Henri IV and la Belle Gabrielle, and son of the Duke de Vendome and Laura Mancini, sister of the Duchess Mazarin. He came to London in 1683, when he was twenty-eight, had a bright wit, was singularly handsome, but did not pass for being brave... This descendant of Henri IV was received and retained in London by the Duchess of Portsmouth with a tenderness so undisguised as to excite the raillery of the whole Court." (Louise de Keroualle, Duchess of Portsmouth, 1649-1734: 264)
"Philippe de Vendome, born 1655, grandson of Henri IV and his mistress Gabrielle d'Estrees, led a life almost as chequered as his ancestry. His military career started in 1669, when, at the tender age of fourteen, he served under the Duc de Beaufort, Grand Admiral of France and another product of Henri IV's indiscretions, in an expedition to relieve the siege of Crete. According to some, he was a brave and steadfast soldier, by other accounts, he was sent home because he was too young. He was later described as a debauched boy, lazy, intelligent and very seductive. In 1672 he became Grand Cross ad honorem of the Order and was appointed Grand Prior of France in 1693. He served in the War of Spanish Succession as second-in-command to his brother Louis Joseph, Marshall of France. However, he continued to court scandal; pursuing the Duchess of Portsmouth (Louise de Keroualle, Royal mistress to Charles II of England), and after disobeying orders at the Battle of Cassano in 1706, was exiled to Lyon. Bored, he soon left for Venice, and after spending some months as a captive of the highwayman Mesmer, arrived to become patron of the painter Raoux. Vendome returned to France in 1710, regaining all his honours. As Grand Prior of France, he lived in the Temple, Paris, and created a 'salon' of writers and artists, including Raoux, who received a handsome pension and several major commissions to decorate the gallery of the Temple. However, Vendome was soon facing exile yet again, and, after announcing his intention to go to Malta, was prohibited from doing so by Louis XIV. He arrived in Malta on the 10th November 1713, received with all the pomp and ceremony the Order could muster. Vendome was much valued in Malta for his expertise in military matters, and there is a bastion of the Cotonera lines named after him. However, he could never return to France while Louis was alive. In 1720 he gave up the Grand Priory of France to the Duc d'Orleans, natural son of the Regent of France. He died in 1727." (Barclay)
"By the early 1680s, Louise was trusted enough by her royal lover to handle affairs of state in his absence. Yet her behavior could swing like a pendulum from entire indifference to carnality to complete depravity. She seduced Named Achmet, the Moroccan ambassador who arrived from Tangiers on a diplomatic mission in January 1682; and there was another lover in the picture as well. Toward the end of 1681, the twenty-eight-year-old Philippe de Vendome, Grand Prior of France, had come to England to visit his aunt, Hortense Mancini. The thirty-five-year-old Louise commenced a torrid love affair with this boozing womanizer that became the talk of the court and nearly cost her her courtesan's career. After Charles discovered a sheaf of compromising love letters that Louise had penned to her young swain, he sought to expel the Frenchman from England. To avoid a diplomatic incident, Louis XIV stepped in and strongly advised Vendome to forget he ever knew anyone named Louise de Keroualle." (Royal Affairs: A Lusty Romp Through the Extramarital Adventures that Rocked the British Monarchy: 220)
"In 1679, at the height of the Popish Plot terror, Louise was so frightened that she seriously considered fleeing to France. Deciding to weather the storm, she made peace with the Whig faction hoping that her son might be named as the King's successor. In March, 1682, she made a visit to France and was royally received. Back in England in July, she reigned alone over the King's heart and mind. She had only one moment of danger: in 1683 she foolishly listened to the ardent wooing of a handsome young libertine, Philippe de Vendome, Grand Prior of France, and King Charles was forced to banish the besotted nobleman. In January, 1684, King Louis XIV created Louise Duchess of Aubigny." (Court Satires of the Restoration: 277)
"Philippe de Vendome, Grand Prior of France, visited England in the summer of 1683 and made ardent love to Louise, Duchess of Portsmouth, 'the King's miss of the land.' In November, 1683, King Charles gave him forty-eight hours to leave England. (According to chronique scandaleuse, The Life of Francelia , 1734, King Charles caught the pair in bed together.). Vendome went to Holland and thence to Paris, where, presumably, he gave his letters to Talbot, who brought them to England c. 1684." (Court Satires of the Restoration: 152)
"The Duchess of Portsmouth also held gambling tables and a bank in her rooms. But the excitement of cards did not entirely absorb her. She played at the more dangerous pastime---amorous intrigue with Philippe de Vendome, Grand Prior of France. This French nobleman was grandson of Henri IV and la Belle Gabrielle, and son of the Duke de Vendome and Laura Mancini, sister of the Duchess Mazarin. He came to London in 1683, when he was twenty-eight, had a bright wit, was singularly handsome, but did not pass for being brave... This descendant of Henri IV was received and retained in London by the Duchess of Portsmouth with a tenderness so undisguised as to excite the raillery of the whole Court." (Louise de Keroualle, Duchess of Portsmouth, 1649-1734: 264)
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Marie Anne Mancini c1672/73 |
Lover in 1685.
His aunt.
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| Marie Charlotte Marquise de Richelieu |
Lover in 1705.
His cousin
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