Thursday, July 2, 2020

Lorraine Dukes----

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Thibaut I of Lorraine
@Wikipedia
Duke of Lorraine
1213-1220

Son ofFerry II de Lorraine & Agnes de Bar.

Husband ofGertrud von Dachsburg (1190-1225), mar 1206, daughter & heiress of Albrecht II von Metz & Dagsburg

Duke of Lorraine
1251-1302

Son ofMathieu II de Lorraine & Katharina von Limburg

Husband ofMargarita de Navarra (d.1310), mar 1255, daughter of Teobaldo I de Navarra & Marguerite de Bourbon.

His lovers were:
Unnamed mistresses.

Natural offspring:
a. Jean de Lorraine (d.1295)
b. Colin (fl 1291)
c. Isabelle (fl 1291)
d. Marguerite (fl 1291)
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Ferry IV of Lorraine
@Wikipedia
Duc de Lorraine
1312-1329

Son ofThibaut II de Lorraine & Isabelle de Rumigny.
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Elisabeth of Austria
Duchess of Lorraine
@Wikipedia
Husband of: Elisabeth von Osterreich (d.1353)

His lover was:
Unnamed mistress.

Natural offspring:
a. Aubert, batard de Lorraine (d.1392/97), Seigneur d'Essey.
Raoul de Lorraine
Duke of Lorraine
@Wikipedia
Duke of Lorraine
1329-1346

Husband of:
1. Eleonore de Bar (d.1333), mar 1329, daughter of Edoaurd I de Bar & Marie de Bourgogne
2. Marie de Chatillon (1323-1380), daughter of Gui I de Blois & Marguerite de Valois, Comtesse de Blois

His lover was:
Unnamed mistress.

Natural offspring:
a. Aubert, batard de Lorraine (fl. 1346/1406), Seigneur d'Essey, mar Comtesse de Preny.
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Charles II of Lorraine
Duke of Lorraine
@Wikipedia
(1364-1431)
Duc de Lorraine
1390-1431

Son ofJean I de Lorraine & Sofie von Wurttemberg.
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Margarethe of the Palatinate
Duchess of Lorraine
@Wikipedia
Husband of Margarethe von Pfalz (1376-1434)mar 1393daughter of Ruprecht I of Germany & Elisabeth von Nuremberg

His lover was:
Alison du May (1383-1431)
" . . . They arrived as far as Nancy; there the Duke of Lorraine was lying ill; he sent out an escort to bring her to him tidings about her had preceded her; indeed we may be sure that now the news of the 'inspired Maid' would ride fast and far. The Duke was in extremity, his country was troubled, his physicians failed to heal him; if Jeanne were a seer, she might be able to give him help; at any rate, he inquired of her whether he should be healed of his sickness. Jeanne frankly replied to him, she could not tell, but she boldly counselled him to do one thing. He had immured his good wife, Margaret of Bavaria, in a convent, and was living at Nancy with a young mistress, Alizon Dumay. Jeanne charged him to send away his mistress, and call home his good wife; and so far from being affronted with her, he gave her a present of money to help her on her journey, and shortly afterwards he did what she charged him to do. . . ." (The Eclectic Review: 187)

" . . . The state of his health worried him more than the condition of France. He was sixty-three and ill. He had taken as his mistress a young woman, Alison Dumay, the illegitimate daughter of a priest. He had had five children by her and was still infatuated  by her. Ill and, by the standards of that age, a very old man, he was tormented by the thought that if he died unreconciled with his wife he would go to hell and equally tormented at the prospect of putting aside his mistress. He was determined to get well and sp postpone the day when he would have to reform his life and repent his sins." (St. Joan of Arc)


"Baudicourt hesitated to assume the responsibility of any action in the matter. He took Jeanne to see the old Duke of Lorraine, his feudal superior. Ducke Charles, at that time under the domination of a mistress, Alison du May, of great with and beauty, was ill, and thought the miraculous maiden of Domremy might restore him to health and the arms of Alison. Jeanne, very wisely and frankly, told him to put away his paramour and take back his wife and lead a decent life. She was not worker of vulgar miracles to profit a worn-out old roue." (Women of Medieval France)


Natural offspring:
a. Ferry d'Einvillebatard de Lorraine (d.1453/56)
Seigneur de Villacourt, Vaxoncourt, Pallegney & Zincourt

b. Jean de Pillelpille
batard de Lorraine (d.1460), Seigneur de Darnieulles & Ceintrey.

c. Ferry de Luneville, batard de Lorraine (d.1425)

d. Catherine, batarde de Lorraine (fl.1425)

e. Isabelle, batarde de Lorraine (d. 1457), mar 1425 Henri de Liocourt.
Rene of Anjou
Duke of Lorraine
@Wikipedia
(1409-1480)
Duc de Lorraine
1431-1453
Duc de Bar
1420s-1480
Duc d'Anjou 1434-1480
Comte de Provence 1434-1480
King of Naples 1435-1442
Jean II of Lorraine
Duke of Lorraine
@Wikipedia
(1426-1470)
Duc de Lorraine
1453-1470


Husband ofMarie de Bourbon (1428-1448), mar 1444, daughter of Charles I de Bourbon Agnes de Bourgogne

His lovers were:

Natural offspring:
1. Jean batard de Calabria, Comte de Briey (c.1504)
2. Albert batard de Calabria, Seigneur d'Essey
3. Daughter married John of Scotland
4. Jeanne d'Abancourt, batard de Calabria, married Achille batard de Beauveau
5. Marguerite batarde de Calabria.
Charles III of Lorraine
Duke of Lorraine
@Wikipedia
(1543-1608)
Duke of Lorraine
Duke of Bar
1545-1608
Claude of France
Duchess of Lorraine
@Wikipedia
Husband ofClaude de France (1547-1575), mar 1599, daughter of Henri II de France & Caterina de' Medici

His lover was:
Unnamed mistress.

Natural offspring:
a. Charles de Remoncourt (d.1648), Abbe de Luneville & Senones.
Henri II of Lorraine
Duke of Lorraine
@Wikipedia
Duke of Lorraine
Duke of Bar
 1608-1624

Husband of:
1. Catalina de Navarra (1559-1604), Duchesse d'Albret, Comtesse d'Armagnac, Comtesse de Perigord, mar 1599.
2. Margherita Gonzaga di Mantova (1591-1632), mar 1606.

Henry the Good.
"As with many other Dukes of Lorraine, we lack a serious portrait of a prince who acquired the nickname of le bon and who spent on almost anything except soldiers. Although his lack of legitimate sons created dynastic problems, it is noteworthy that Henri II supported two bastard sons; one of them, a Knight of Malta, collected sizable sums every year from the duke's treasury. Many of his other subjects were also well-treated. At one end of the scale, Henri's debonair generosity emerges with his liberal creations of nobility: in sixteen years, exceeding the annual average (8.1) from his father's long reign and far ahead of his miserly successor. At the other end, if his father fed the swans swimming in the moats around his capital, his son's generosity extended much further down the animal hierarchy; a servant was reimbursed for 'three dozen spoons put in various places to give th emice something to drink.'" (A Bewitched Duchy: Lorraine and Its Dukes, 1477-1736: 87)

A profligate heir.
"Henri II, who reputedly remarked that 'prodigality is the original sin of the house' and that 'French has only one word for refusal, but his nurse never taught it to him,' has a well-deserved reputation for extravagant expenditure. For example, he had a fishpond built around the garden fountain of his palace in 1618, and stocked it four different times with a total of almost a thousand truites. That year, their cost (337 francs) exceeded his payments to a troupe of touring comedians or his alms to a traveling Bulgarian patriarch and his vicar. That same year, he also paid a Normandy merchant 234 francs for fourteen Peruvian onions, Chinese flowers and seeds, and a rooster and hen from North Africa." (A Bewitched Duchy: Lorraine and Its Dukes, 1477-1736: 88)

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Henri II de Lorraine
by G. Garitan, 2014
@ Musee barrois
His lovers were:
1) Catherine Mathis.

Natural offspring:
a. Claude Charles (b/d/1626).

2) Sara Veroussier.

Natural offspring:
a. Henri batard de Lorraine.
b. Claude batard de Lorraine (d.1631), Comte de Briey

3) Unnamed mistresses.

Natural offspring:
a. Henri de Bainville, Abbe de Saint-Mihiel, Abbe de Saint Pierremont, Abbe de Bouzonville (d.1626), Legitime 1605
b. Charles de Lorraine, Comte de Briey, Seigneur de Darney (d.1631), Chevalier de Bar, Chevalier de Lorraine
Charles IV of Lorraine
@Wikimedia
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Charles IV of Lorraine
@Wikipedia
(1604-1675)
Duke of Lorraine
1625-1634
1661-1675


Husband of:
Nicole of Lorraine
Duchess of Lorraine
@Wikipedia
1. Nicole de Lorraine (1608-1657), Duchesse de Lorraine et Bat, 1624-1625 (in her own right), mar 1621, div 1635, daughter of Henri II de Lorraine & Margherita Gonzaga di Mantova
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Beatrice de Cusance
@Wikipedia
2. Béatrix  de Cusance (1614-1663), mar 1637, Baronne de Belvoir, daughter of Claude-François de Cusance, Baron de Belvoir & de Saint-Julien & Ernestine van Witthem, Comtesse de Walhain and Vicomtesse de Sébourg

3. Marie-Louise d'Aspremon(1652-1692), mar 1665

His lovers were:

Béatrice de Cusance
Princesse de Cantecroix
1) Béatrice de Cusance, Princesse de Cantecroix (1614-1663)
French courtier & royal mistress.
Lover in 1634-1642.

" . . . Left a young, beautiful, and childless widow (1637), Beatrix became the mistress of Charles IV, duke of Lorraine (1604-1675), whose wife had retired from the court of Nancy. He persuaded Beatrix to through a form of bigamous marriage with him (1637) and requested an annulment of his childless marriage from Pope Urban VIII, but refused to leave Beatrix during the period pending judgement on the case. The couple separated after the birth of their son (1642), and Beatrix retired to the court of The Hague, in Holland. . . Returning to the court of Lorraine, the duke renewed his former attachment to Beatrix, and married her a second time a few days before her death at Nancy (June 5, 1663).  Madame de Cantecroix left two children by Duke Charles, who were not regarded as legitimate, Anne de Lorraine (1639-1720) who married Francois de Lorraine, Prince de Lillebonne and was prominent at the court of Louis XIV, and Charles Henry de Lorraine, Comte de Vaudemont (1642-1773)" (A Bit of History)

Beatrice de Cusance's other lover was:
Charles Stuart.
Lover in 1659.

" . . . There (in Holland) she pursued a scandalous affair with the much younger Charles Stuart (II) (1659), which liaison was responsible for the breaking of his betrothal to Louisa Henrietta of Orange. . . ." (A Bit of History)

2) Catherine de Saint-Remy.

Natural offspring:
a. Karl Johann Lothar von Vequel (1633-1732), mar 1698 Anna Elisabeth von Lindenberg (1679-1749)
Isabelle de Ludres
3) Isabelle de Ludres (1647-1726)
Leopold I of Lorraine
Duke of Lorraine
the Good
@Wikipedia
(1679-1729)
Duc de Lorraine
Duc de Bar
1690-1729
Duke of Teschen
1722-1729.

Elisabeth-Charlotte of Orleans
Duchess of Lorraine
@Wikipedia

His lover was:
Anne-Marguerite de Lignéville
@Wikipedia
Princesse de Beauvau-Craon
Lover in 1706

Daughter of Marc de Beauvau, Prince of Craon, and Anne Marguerite de Ligniville

Wife of:
1. Jacques Henri of Lorraine, Prince of Lixheim (d. 1734), mar 1721

2. Gaston Pierre Charles de Lévis, Marshal de Mirepoix (d. 1757), mar 1739.

"The princess Craon was the favourite mistress of Leopold the last duke of Lorraine, who married her to monsieur de Beauvau, and prevailed on the emperor to make him a prince of the empire.  They at this time resided at Florence, where prince Craon was at the head of the council of regency." (Walpole, Vol. 1: 72)

"Leopold's marital life was troubled in 1706, when he took Anne-Marguerite de Lignéville, Princess of Beauvau-Craon as his mistress, and enriched her family. Elisabeth Charlotte however, following her mother's advice, remained silent." (Wikipedia)

". . . Herr Wolfling is the eldest son of the late Grand Duke of Tuscany Ferdinand IV, cousin of the ill-fated Emperor Franz Joseph.  From his ear . . .(???)

Wednesday, July 1, 2020

Chesterfield Earls--

Philip Stanhope
2nd Earl of Chesterfield
(1634-1714)
1656-1714


Husband of:
1. Anne Percy (d.1654), daughter of Algernon Percy, 10th Earl of Northumberland
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Elizabeth Butler
Countess of Chesterfield
@Wikipedia

"Together Elizabeth and Chesterfield had one daughter, Lady Elizabeth Stanhope, later Countess of Strathmore, although the child's paternity was in doubt. According to Samuel Pepys, theirs was a marriage of convenience, but Chesterfield, despite his own past conduct with Barbara Villiers, became jealous when rumours spread that his wife was having affairs with both James Hamilton and James, Duke of York, with whom she is said to have been caught in flagrante delicto. On the other hand, he describes Elizabeth as 'a virtuous lady." (Wikipedia)
Elizabeth Dormer
Countess of Chesterfield
@Wikipedia
3. Elizabeth Dormer, daughter of Charles Dormer, 2nd Earl of Carnarvon

His lover was:
Barbara VilliersDuchess of Cleveland.
Lover in 1656

"Ormond's children enjoyed stormier relationships with their spouses. Elizabeth had married Philip, second earl of Chesterfield, but he made no secret of his love for his mistress, Lady Castlemaine.  A well informed courtier described how Chesterfield had wed Elizabeth 'without loving her, and had lived some time time with her in such coolness as to leave her in no doubt of his indifference.'. . . . " (Making Ireland English: 203)

Real Father of the Countess of Sussex.
  ". . . It is evident from the letters in the present publication, wherein she is repeatedly and warmly addresses as 'Mrs. Villiers,' that the Earl of Chesterfield had received the ultimate favours in the power of a female to bestow, before her union with Mr. Palmer, to whom she adverts with marked aversion or contempt in a future letter in this collection.  At all events, the manuscript from which these papers are collated, furnishes intelligible proof of their voluptuous intimacy, and in terms adapted to the glowing fervour of the subject.  In the thirteenth year of Charles II, Mr. Palmer was created Earl of Castlemaine, in Ireland; and during her cohabitation with her husband she had a daughter, born in February 1661.  This, says Lord Dartmouth, was 'the late Countess of Sussex, whom the king adopted as his daughter, though Lord Castlemaine always looked upon her to be his, and left her his estate when he died; but she is generally understood to belong to another, the old Earl of Chesterfield, whom she resembled very much both in face and person.' (Letters of Philip, Second Earl of Chesterfield, to Several Celebrated Individuals of the Time of Charles II, James II, William III and Queen Anne: 77)
Philip Stanhope
4th Earl of Chesterfield
@Wikipedia
(1694-1773)
British statesman & man of letters.



"The pursuit of Lord Chesterfield by evangelical ladies of rank forms one of the humorous chapters of his biography. As we have seen, the high priestess of the movement, Lady Huntingdon herself, was an intimate friend. Her sister and convert, the Lady Fanny Shirley, had been his reputed mistress; another acquaintance, Fanny's sister-in-law, the Lady Margaret Hastings, married Benjamin Ingham, a disciple of John Wesley; Chesterfield's sister, Lady Gertrude Hotham, and his sister-in-law, the Countess d'Elitz, became Methodists; finally, Lady Chesterfield herself seems to have been converted. . . ." (Lord Chesterfield and His World: 236)

His lovers were:

" . . . There in his middle age appeared the Earl of Chesterfield, no longer le petit Stanhope, but grown in fame in not in inches, an ambassador with ribbon and star. What did the past of Madame de Tencin---the cruelty, the faithlessness and lust, the sordid episodes? . . . ." (Lord Chesterfield and His World: 94)
Lady Frances Shirley
@The Twickenham Museum
2) Frances Shirley (1707-1778)

"She was the younger daughter of the Earl of Ferrers, lived at Twickenham, and belonged to Pope's coterie. She was twelve years younger than Chesterfield. No precautions were taken to conceal, nor were any gestures of secrecy made in regard to their mutual philandering, which was as open as the noonday sun. Melusina, as usual, might just as well not have existed. . . ." (Lord Chesterfield and His World: 176)

". . . Chesterfield seems to have celebrated the union by taking into his keeping a new mistress, Lady Frances or Fanny Shirley (1702-1778), 'a great beauty,' with whom he had long maintained relations. . . ." (Wikisource)

" . . . In the meantime and for many years London gossips observed Lady Frances Shirley on the arm of Lord Chesterfield at any significant social event."  (Women Voice Men: Gender in European Culture: 8)

"15(xxiii). Lady Frances Shirley born May 5 1707 died July 15 1778; lived at Twickenham with her niece Lady Huntington; reputed to have been a great beauty in her day; rumors of affairs with Lord Chesterfield; Subject of a famous poem by Alexander Pope, esq." (Shirley Family Association)

Trivia.
"Brewer's: Flirt. A coquette. The word is from the verb flirt, as, “to flirt a fan.” The fan being used for coquetting, those who coquetted were called fan-flirts. Lady Frances Shirley, the favourite of Lord Chesterfield, introduced the word. Flirt is allied to flutter, flit, jerk, etc." (Infoplease)

3) Madelina Elizabeth du Bouchet.
" . . . In 1732, Madelina Elizabeth du Bouchet – a French governess – gave birth to his illegitimate son, Philip, for whose advice on life Chesterfield wrote the Letters to his Son. . . ." (Wikipedia)

". . . But we have yet to mention one more of a different kind, which, from the standpoint of English letters and from that of his own permanent fame, was of greater important still; for if he had not seduced Elizabeth du Bouchet, a governess or companion in the house of one of the van Wassenaer family, his ill-starred son would not have been born, nor would Chesterfield's commentaries upon life have been written, at least in their present version." (Lord Chesterfield and His World: 143)

"While Ambassador at the Hague, Chesterfield met Elizabeth du Bouchet, governess or companion in a Dutch family; she bore him a son in 1732. Chesterfield brought 'le Bouchet' to London and set up his little family in separate lodgings, where his son was surrounded by governesses and French tutors, as he himself had been. . . ."  (Women Voice Men: 8)

Personal & family background.
"That so little is know about Mademoiselle du Bouchet is of itself significant of this affair. She was not an important conquest; possibly she was not a conquest at all in the sense that much art or persuasion had been required in the winning of her. . .  He had nothing to boast about in regard to her. She belonged to the category of purchasable gratifications and had exactly the brief importance of such. She was of good French Huguenot ancestry. In his letters to Torck, her lover refers to her simply as 'la Bouchet' without any other qualification or trace of affection, as, in short, one would refer to a negligible mistress. It has been noted by various biographers that in the letters to his son he speaks of her always with respect. . .  But there are als indications that he does not take her very seriously and is at no pains to conceal the fact from his son. . .  ."  (Lord Chesterfield and His World: 143)

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