Marguerite Courtin, Madame de Vantelet

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Marguerite Courtin, Madame de Vantelet [1] (died after 1647), was a French aristocrat and courtier in service of Queen Henrietta Maria.

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She was the only French lady-in-waiting Queen Henrietta Maria was allowed to keep after the purging of her French household. [2]

Favoured lady-in-waiting

Both she and her husband had been with the Queen since childhood. [3] Marguerite Courtin was the daughter of Pierre Courtin and Diane de Mary, the daughter of Jean-Ascagne de Mary. Marguerite married Jacques de Lux, Sieur de Vantelet by a marriage contract dated 7 June 1617. [4]

According to Tanneguy II Le Veneur, Comte de Tillières (d.1652), the Queen's original Lord Chamberlain, [5] the intention was to deprive the Queen of all her French attendants, but as she refused all food and drink unless she had at least one, they allowed her Madame de Vantelet. [2]

Other sources credit Susan Villiers, Countess of Denbigh for the decision. When King Charles I dismissed her French retinue, the Queen asked the Countess of Denbigh to assist her in acquiring the King's consent to let Madame de Vantelet stay. The Countess succeeded in this task by asking her brother George to appeal to the King on the Queen's behalf. Susan Villiers, Countess of Denbigh was the sister of George Villiers, 1st Duke of Buckingham, the King's favourite. [6]

The fact that the Queen, of all of her French retinue, singled out Marguerite, Madame de Vantelet, shows her importance to the Queen.

According to the French ambassador Châteauneuf in a dispatch from 1629, "the queen in her private hours enjoyed the company of the 'ladies of the Chamber', particularly Mesdames Vantelet and Coignet", while Madame de Vantelet "sleeps inside the Chamber", presumably with Queen Henrietta Maria. [7]

Relationship with the French and intrigues

Because of her closeness to the Queen, Madame de Vantelet was courted by the French, the opposing parties Marie de Médici, the mother of Queen Henrietta Maria and Louis XIII of France, on the one side, and Louis XIII and Cardinal Richelieu on the other. Madame de Vantelet received a pension from the French King which ebbed and flowed with her relationship with them. [7]

It was Madame de Vantelet who informed Marie de Médici of her daughter the English Queen's first pregnancy. [8]

As Chamberer, Madame de Vantelet had considerable influence in filtering incoming requests and providing an audience with the Queen, brokering communication and access to Queen Henrietta Maria. [9] The Queen's attachment to her was so strong that she survived the discovery of thirty-four letters in her own hand with her signature, found among the papers of Châteauneuf, more than implicating her in his plot against Cardinal Richelieu. Charles I, Louis XIII and the Cardinal all wanted her gone, but Queen Henrietta Maria won out. [10]

The Ambassador Poygni parries the attack with the arguments supplied to him, but they do not meet the point. He also has instructions from his Court to demand the expulsion from this Court of the Vantelletta, favourite of the queen here, who had a hand in the intrigue carried on here in the time of the Ambassador extraordinary Castelnovo, afterwards Garde des Sceaux in France and of the Chevalier di Giar. This office is displeasing to their Majesties, and so the ambassador is beginning to be looked at askance, without any hope of being able to obtain what he asks, the king being unwilling, as Poygni was told, to order his household for the satisfaction of others. [11]

Flight from England with the Queen

When Queen Henrietta Maria had to flee England due to the Civil War, of those accompanying her to France was Marguerite de Vantelet, [3] and Marguerite de Vantelet's husband, Seigneur de Vantelet, gentleman usher to the Queen. He had also been in her marriage entourage in 1626, and his family was long-time servants at the French court. [12]

Madame de Vantelet on this voyage to safety, was amongst those mistaken as pirates by the local populace when they finally arrived in France:

Henrietta Maria had not in fact landed in Brest, as the sea captain had reported, but twenty-five kilometres away at L’Aber Ildut. There her first task was to persuade the locals her servants were not pirates. Her party included Henry Jermyn, the dwarf Jeffrey Hudson, Susan, the Countess of Denbigh, the Duchess of Richmond, Father Phillip, and Monsieur and Madame Vantelet, who had been with her since childhood. They made strange pirates, but the coast was regularly raided and the whole area was in arms, so they carefully raised a staff with a handkerchief on it. Henrietta Maria then explained to the locals that she was Queen of England, while looking, she recalled, more like ‛a distressed wandering princess from a romance.’ [3]

Family

The marriage of their son Charles de Lux, sieur de Vantelet to Henriette Marie Coignet, in 1647, was celebrated with the Queen and her son Prince Charles, the later Charles II in attendance. [13]

Like the Vantelet family, the Coignet family was also long-time servants at the French court. A Seigneur Coignet, another one of Henrietta Maria's gentleman ushers, also accompanied the Queen in 1644 on her perilous journey back to France. He, too, and his wife had been a part of her marriage entourage in 1626. James or Jacquet Coignet was from an old Auxerre family whose presence at court dated back to the time of Catherine de Médici. He was married to Elizabeth, the daughter of Jean Garnier, master of Queen Henrietta Maria's wardrobe, and Lady Françoise de Monbodiac, Queen Henrietta Maria’s nurse when she was young and who also followed her to England. Together, Jacques and Elizabeth Coignet were the parents of Henriette Marie Coignet, undoubtedly named for the Queen. [12] [14] [15] [16]

The younger de Vantelets were also in the employ of the Queen, and later the Dowager Queen, Henrietta Maria. [13]

Henrietta Maria Coignet, Madame de Vantelet, was in Henrietta Maria's employ until the Dowager Queen's death in 1669, after which she and her husband, Sieur de Vantelet, received 1,000l. "as a debt acknowledged to be due to her by a paper of the handwriting of the late Queen Mother, and another 300l. to her in consideration of her pretences to the goods in the Queen Mother's Chamber." [17]

Henrietta Maria de Vantelet, dresser to the late Queen Mother, also received an annual pension of 300l. It was granted on 28 February and 30 March 1662/3, while the Queen Dowager was still alive, and apparently still being paid as late as 9 October 1686. [15] [18] [19] [20]

The kings Charles II and James II and their mother did not always see eye to eye, but in valuing her French household they apparently agreed.

Both the Madame de Vantelets' signatures have survived on the marriage contract from 1647, signed February 20 in Paris where they celebrated the wedding together with the Queen of England, Scotland, and Ireland and the future King Charles II. After "Henriette Marie R" and "Charles P" they sign themselves "Marguerite Courtin" and "Henriette Marie/Coignet". Fellow attendant to Henrietta Maria, and mother to Henriette Marie, Madame Elizabeth Coignet also attended, signing herself "Elizabeth Garnier". Her mother, Françoise de Monbodiac, and two of her sisters, Catherine Garnier, Madame Arpe as the wife of Thomas Arpe, provider of the robes to Henrietta Maria, and Louise Garnier, Madame de Plancy as the wife of Pierre de Plancy, apothecary and valet of the Queen of England, were also present. [13] [21] Marguerite Courtin, Madame de Vantelet seems very much to have been in the Queen's inner circle, if not even foremost in that circle.

Henrietta Maria Coignet, Madame de Vantelet, wife of the Sieur Vantelet, mentioned in the long marriage contract of Louis Belin, King's Counselor and auditor in his Chamber of Accounts, and Henriette Marie de Plancy, daughter of the Queen's apothecary, in 1655 when they all resided in France. Which 26 signatories include Henrietta Maria and her daughter Henrietta of England. Her mother was the aunt of the above-mentioned bride Henriette Marie de Plancy. [14]

Marguerite Courtin was the daughter Pierre Courtin (d. before 1612), Esquire, Seigneur de Hostel-du-Bois, in Brie, archer of the Ordinances of the King in 1567 and man-at-arms in 1581 and 1584. He married, by contract dated 14 January 1587, damoiselle Diane de Mary (d.1631 [22] ), daughter of Jean-Ascagne de Mary, seigneur de Beaulieu, goldsmith to Henry II and Benvenuto Cellini, who talks of him in his famous autobiography, and the late Constance della Robbia, la Robie, the daughter of Girolamo della Robbia and the granddaughter of Andrea della Robbia. Diane de Mary, Madame Courtin was under-governess to the young princess Henrietta Maria from at least 19 October 1612, when the young princess was not three years old. In her testament she gives the Queen of England a gift of a small enamelled gold bracelet with a clasp of 17 diamonds and begs her to transfer to her children and grandchildren the affection that she has always shown her. [4] [23] [24]

Marguerite was one of four sisters; Jeanne married Pierre Testard, Esquire, Madeleine married Jean d’Aubusson, chevalier, and Marie married Nicolas Billard, seigneur de Carouge. Marie was his widow in 1649 and founded the priory of the Bénédictines mitigées du Faubourg Saint-Victor in Paris. [4]

Jacques le Lux, sieur de Vantelet (d. before 1647/8 [13] ), was the son of Robert de Lux, one of the four butlers whom Louis XIII chose to serve every year, and whom he called the Pillars of his House, and Marie de Plaisance, who had the honour of being named by Henry IV also under-governess to the Children of France. Jacques le Lux, sieur de Vantelet had at least two siblings. His brother Louis de Lux, seigneur de Vantelet et D'Orsigny, counselor and butler to the King and Master of the Horses, married Marie Merault. Their daughter Marie married François de Brie-Serrant, and were the ancestors of Alexandre de Brie-Serrant. His sister Françoise de Lux married Charles du Bernetz (d. before 1647/8 [13] ), seigneur des Arpentis, butler his royal highness. [25] [13] [26]

Jacques le Lux, sieur de Vantelet was dead before the signing of his son's marriage contract on 20 February 1647/8, when Marguerite is his veuve; widow. [13]

The elder de Vantelets had at least three children. Children of Jacques de Lux, sieur de Vantelet and Marguerite Courtin, Madame Vantelet:

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  2. 1 2 "Venice: August 1626, 1-15 | British History Online". www.british-history.ac.uk. Retrieved 2022-10-25. There are rumours at Court that before leaving the king left instructions for his officers to recompense the French with 30,000l. sterling, 11,000l. in money and the rest in jewels. However the French profess to have received nothing as yet except some trifle of little consequence, and they declare thay have been treated too harshly and cruelly in their own words in not being allowed to see the queen first or even time to take away their baggage from the Court. They declare they will carry such a report to the Most Christian as will arouse quarrels between the two kings, so that with a good accommodation it may be possible to repair the offence which they pretend France has received by the manner of their dismissal, and the queen may obtain some advantage. Her prayers to the king have only resulted in obtaining for her a solitary French lady and two fathers of the Oratory, one of whom, because of Scottish nationality will be her Majesty's confessor. (fn. 4) 4. The French lady was Madame de Vantelet, who used to dress the queen. There were three English priests allowed, Fathers Potter and Godfrey, and Father Philip Preston, a Scot. Birch: Court and Times of Charles I, vol. i., pages 122, 138. Tillières says the intention was to deprive the queen of all her French attendants, but as she refused all food and drink unless she had at least one, they allowed her Mme. de Vantelet. Mémoires, ed. Hippeau, page 146. The Bishop of Mandé wrote to Richelieu in August "Il a mis près de la Reine deux ecclesiastiques Godefrey et Potier très bien connus au Père Berulle pour ennemis de la Religion: et tout ce que nous avons faire par nos prières, et la Reine par ses larmes a été d'y faire entrer un père de l'Oratoire avec son compagnon, qui ont desia reçu defence d'écrire de sa conduite en France, et n'auront la liberté de lui parler qu'en presence de temoins." Public Record Office, Paris Transcripts. The French priests were Father Philip as confessor and Father Viette as chaplain. Tillières: Mémoires, page 252.
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  4. 1 2 3 Poli, Oscar de (1838-1908) Auteur du texte (1887). Histoire généalogique des Courtin, par le Vte Oscar de Poli,... p. 205. Pierre Courtin, écuyer, seigneur de l'Hostel-du-Bois, en Brie, archer des Ordonnances du Roi èn 1567, homme d'armes en 1581 et 1584 (Pr., 1463, 1477, 1481); marié, par contrat du 14 janvier 1587, à damoiselle Diane de Mari, fille de Jean-Ascagne de Mari et de feu Constance della Robbia, dite de la Robie (Pr., 1485). Il décéda avant le 19 octobre 1612, auquel temps sa veuve était sous-gouvernante d'une des jeunes princesses, filles du feu roi Henry VI (Pr., 1535). De la dite alliance naquireut: a. Jeanne, mariée à Pierre Testard, écuyer. b. Madeleine, mariée à Jean d'Aubusson, chevalier. c. Marie, mariée à Nicolas Billard, seigneur de Carouge; veuve en 1649 et fondatrice du pricuré de Bénédictines mitigées du Faubourg Saint-Victor, à Paris (Pr., 1641, 1618, 1684). d. Marguerite, mariée, le 7 juin 1617, à Jacques de Lux, seigneur de Ventelet (Pr., 1545).{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
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  7. 1 2 Wolfson, Sara. "'The Female Bedchamber of Queen Henrietta Maria; Politics, Familial Networks and Policy, 1626-1641' in Nadine Akkerman and Birgit Houben (eds.), The Politics of Female Households: Ladies-in-Waiting across Early Modern Europe (Leiden: Brill, 2013). Chapter submitted by invitation": 22.{{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
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  9. ↑ Wolfson, Sara. "'The Female Bedchamber of Queen Henrietta Maria; Politics, Familial Networks and Policy, 1626-1641' in Nadine Akkerman and Birgit Houben (eds.), The Politics of Female Households: Ladies-in-Waiting across Early Modern Europe (Leiden: Brill, 2013). Chapter submitted by invitation": 22, 24.{{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  10. ↑ Wolfson, Sara. "'The Female Bedchamber of Queen Henrietta Maria; Politics, Familial Networks and Policy, 1626-1641' in Nadine Akkerman and Birgit Houben (eds.), The Politics of Female Households: Ladies-in-Waiting across Early Modern Europe (Leiden: Brill, 2013). Chapter submitted by invitation": 26–27.{{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
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  12. 1 2 Mansel, P.; Riotte, T. (2011-10-28). Monarchy and Exile: The Politics of Legitimacy from Marie de Médicis to Wilhelm II. Springer. ISBN   978-0-230-32179-3. Importantly, she was also accompanied by a group of gentleman ushers, including the Seigneurs Coignet and Vantelet, who had been in her marriage entourage in 1626 and whose families were long-time servants at the French court.
  13. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 1647 Marriage Contract signed by Queen Henriette Marie, wife of King Charles I of England, and her son, the future King Charles.
  14. 1 2 "Long Marriage Contract for Louis BELIN, "Kings Counselor and Auditor in his Chamber of Accounts" and Henriette Marie DE PLANCY (1609-1669, Princess of France, Queen Consort, 1625, of Charles I), and her daughter HENRIETTA (Anne of England, 1644-1670, Youngest daughter of Charles I and Charles II's favourite sister) and 24 other signatories by HENRIETTA MARIA: (1655) Signed by Author(s) | Sophie Dupre ABA ILAB PADA". www.abebooks.com. Retrieved 2022-10-25. the daughter of Queen Henrietta Maria's apothecary signed by the Queen and her daughter and many others, with an analysis of the content in French and English, in summary "Marriage contract between noble Louis BELIN, King's Counselor and auditor in his Chamber of Accounts, living in Paris, rue de Montmorency, parish of Saint-Nicolas-des- Champs, on the one hand, and Damoiselle Henriette Marie DE PLANCY, absent, represented by a noble man Pierre DE PLANCY, apothecary and valet of the Queen of England, and Damoiselle Louise GARNIER his wife, living in the enclosure of the Royal Palace, rue Saint-Honoré, parish of Saint-Eustache, his father and mother, on the other hand. The future assisted by Damoiselle Anne MONSIGOT, his mother, widow of a noble man Claude BELIN, during his lifetime advisor secretary of the King and his finances, by noble man Gilles GAVEAU, King's Counselor, provincial controller general of the wars in the regiment of Normandy, his paternal uncle because of Lady Anne BELIN, his wife, by Gilles GAVEAU, his son, King's Counselor, provincial controller general of the wars in Guyenne, by Me Gratien MENARDEAU, King's Counselor in his Council and in the Grand Chamber of his Parliament, paternal cousin because of Lady [Geneviève] LE BRET, his wife, and by Messrs Mes Nicolas BOURLON, King's Counselor in Parliament, and Mathieu BOURLON, King's Counselor and Ordinary Master in his Chamber of Accounts, his first cousins maternal because of the ladies Anne and Catherine MONSIGOT their wives; the Sieur and Lady DE PLANCY assisted by Lady Henriette Marie, Queen of England, by Damoiselle the Princess Henriette, her daughter, by Mister the Lord JERMYN, by Madam the Countess DE KIMALMEAKY, Honorary Lady of the Queen, by Mister the Count DES CHAPELLES, ordinary butler of the Duke of Orleans, by Lady Françoise DE FIENNES, by Lady François DE MONBODIAC, widow of a noble man Jean GARNIER, during his lifetime master of the said Queen's wardrobe, maternal grandmother of the future, by Elisabeth GARNIER, wife of the sieur COIGNET, gentleman serving the said Queen, by Catherine GARNIER, wife of the sieur ARPE, maternal aunts of the future, by Geneviève GARNIER, her cousin, by Henriette Marie COIGNET, wife of the sieur VANTELET, and by [blank] DE LA GARDE, his cousin. The marriage will be celebrated in the Holy Catholic, Apostolic and Roman Church. Dowry of the future: 50,000 livres tournois, in advance on the estates of his father and mother; the Queen further promises to give her 10,000 livres for her affection. Dower of 1,200 livres of annuity in the event that there are no children, reduced to 1,000 livres of annuity in the event of children.", 6 sides folio, the Royal Palace Paris, 14th August [...] Analysis Analyse du contrat de mariage entre Louis BELIN et Marie DE PLANCY Paris, 14 août 1655 14 août 1655 Contrat de mariage entre noble Louis BELIN, conseiller du Roi et auditeur en sa Chambre des comptes, demeurant à Paris, rue de Montmorency, paroisse Saint-Nicolas-des- Champs, d'une part, et damoiselle Henriette Marie DE PLANCY, absente, représentée par noble homme Pierre DE PLANCY, apothicaire et valet de chambre de la Reine d'Angleterre, et damoiselle Louise GARNIER sa femme, demeurant dans l'enclos du Palais Royal, rue Saint-Honoré, paroisse Saint-Eustache, ses père et mère, d'autre part. Le futur assisté de damoiselle. [...] Bibliographic Details – Title: Long Marriage Contract for Louis BELIN, "... – Publication Date: 1655 – Signed: Signed by Author(s)
  15. 1 2 "Entry Book: October 1686, 1-10 | British History Online". www.british-history.ac.uk. Retrieved 2022-10-25. 1686 [...] Oct. 9. [...] Henry Guy to the Auditor of the Receipt. Two patents have been produced to the Lord Treasurer, one dated 1660–1, Jan. 16, for payment of 1,354l. 3s. 4d. to Eliz. Coignett, widow of James Coignet; the other dated 1663, April 11, for payment of 300l. per an. to Henrietta Maria de Vantelet, dresser to the late Queen Mother. Have any payments been made at the Exchequer on those two patents? and if so what? and what now remains due thereon?
  16. ↑ Britland, Karen Ruth (2000). Neoplatonic Identities: literary representation and the politics of Queen Henrietta Maria's court circle (PDF). p. 259. A Madame Coignet arrived in England in 1625 in Henrietta Maria's train and remained at her side throughout her life, becoming first woman of the bedchamber on the death of her own mother in 1655.4 (4 It is possible, therefore, that she was the daughter of Madame de Saint Georges.) She died in France in July 1668 (just over a year before Henrietta Maria herself), and was buried at the Visitandine convent founded by the Queen. A Jacques Coignet (her husband?), from an old Auxerre family whose presence at court dated back to the time of Catherine de Médicis, also accompanied Henrietta Maria from France, and was frequently employed by her as a messenger: for example, in 1637, he carried letters between her and her sister Christine in Savoy.5) (5 See Ferrero, Lettres, pp. 47-8.)
  17. ↑ "Entry Book: June 1671, 21-30 | British History Online". www.british-history.ac.uk. Retrieved 2022-10-25. Warrant under the royal sign manual to Sir R. Long, Receiver General of the rents, &c., of the late Queen Mother. By royal warrant of 1670, June 10, we directed payment of 1,000l. to Henrietta de Vantelet as a debt acknowledged to be due to her by a paper of the handwriting of the late Queen Mother, and another 300l. to her in consideration of her pretences to the goods in the Queen Mother's Chamber. By a further warrant under the sign manual, dated at Windsor, the 11th inst., you were directed to pay to the Sieur de Vantlet, husband of said Henrietta de Vantelet, such sums as were previously ordered to be paid to him by Sir Henry Wood, late Receiver of the rents of the late Queen Mother. The sums so ordered are the 1,000l, and 300l. abovementioned which you are hereby authorised to pay.
  18. 1 2 Office, Great Britain Public Record (1862). Calendar of State Papers, Domestic Series, of the Reign of Charles II: 1660-[1685]. H.M. Stationery Office. 1662-3 [...] Feb. 28. Warrant for a grant to Susan De Mercy, dresser to the Queen-Mother, of a pension of 300l. a year. [Ent. Book 9, p.289] Feb. 28. Like warrants for Eliz. Plansy, Jane de L'Espervanche, Henriette de Vantelet, Louyse de Plansy, Rebecca Brouncker, Henrietta Orpe, and Sophia Stuart. Minute. [Ent. Book 9, p.290]
  19. 1 2 Office, Great Britain Public Record (1862). Calendar of State Papers, Domestic Series, of the Reign of Charles II. Longman, Green, Longman, & Roberts. 1663 [...] March 30. Grant to Maria De Vantelet, dresser to the Queen-Mother, of a pension of 300l. a year for life. [Docquet.] March 30. Like grants of the same pensions to Henrietta Orpe, Eliz. De Plancy, Rebecca Brouncker, and Jane l'Espervanche. [Docquet.] March 30. Grant to Louise De Plansy of a pension of 400l. a year. [Docquet.]
  20. ↑ Office, Great Britain Public Record (1862). Calendar of State Papers, Domestic Series, of the Reign of Charles II. Longman, Green, Longman, & Roberts. Vantelet, Henrietta Maria de, 59, 91.
  21. ↑ Questier, Michael C. (2005-09-19). Newsletters from the Caroline Court, 1631-1638: Volume 26: Catholicism and the Politics of the Personal Rule. Cambridge University Press. ISBN   978-0-521-85407-8. Thomas Arpe. He was (by Michaelmas 1636) appointed Henrietta Maria's provider of the robes. He married Katherine, the daughter of Jean Garnier. She became one of the queen's chamberers. (I am very grateful to Caroline Hibbard for this information.) In February 1636 Biddulph 'sent some sweet oiles to Mr Orpe', whom Biddulph understood to have been 'reconciled to the Catholike Church'; AAW, A XXVIII, no. 93, p. 353.
  22. ↑ "Minutes et répertoires du notaire Jean II CHAPELLAIN, janvier 1630 - décembre 1640 (étude XXIV)". p. 143. MC/ET/XXIV/332 fol. IIII/XX/XV LONDRES § Testament de Diane de MARY [qui demande à être inhumée en l'église Saint-Honoré et nomme pour exécuteurs Messieurs de GRIZELLES chanoine en l'église Saint-Honoré et LE COURT, son neveu, conseiller du Roi, et prie ce dernier d'accepter la charge de tuteur honoraire de tous ses petits-enfants], veuve de Pierre COURTIN écuyer et ci-devant sous gouvernante de la reine de la Grande-Bretagne, demeurant à Paris, (avec en pièce jointe datée de LONDRES le 28 juin 1632 : procuration de Jacques de LUX, chevalier seigneur de VANTELET, conseiller et maître d'hôtel ordinaire du Roi très chrétien et gentilhomme huissier de la chambre de la reine d'Angleterre, Marguerite COURTIN, son épouse, femme de chambre du lit de ladite reine, à Louis de LUX, pour intervenir à l'exécution du testament de ladite de MARY, défunte.) 28 mai 1631
  23. ↑ "Minutes et répertoires du notaire Jean II CHAPELLAIN, janvier 1630 - décembre 1640 (étude XXIV)". p. 102. MC/ET/XXIV/331 fol. I MARY (Diane de) veuve de Pierre COURTIN, écuyer sieur de l'Hôtel du Boys, ci-devant sousgouvernante de la reine de Grande Bretagne, demeurant dans le cloître Saint-Honoré § Testament de Diane de MARY qui fait un don à la reine d'Angleterre d'un petit bracelet d'or émaillé garni d'un fermoir de 17 diamants et la supplie de reporter sur ses enfants et petits enfants l'affection qu'elle lui a toujours témoignée. 2 janvier 1631
  24. ↑ Cavallucci, C. J. (Camillo Jacopo); Molinier, Emile (1884). Les Della Robbia, leur vie et leur oeuvre : d'après des documents inédits : suivi d'un catalogue de l'œuvre des Della Robbia en Italie et dans les principaux musées de l'Europe. Getty Research Institute. Paris : J. Rouam. pp. 184–185. Quelques mots encore sur la famille des délia Robbia. Andrea avait eu un frère nommé Simone, dont la descendance subsiste encore aujour-d'hui dans les marquis de Viviani délia Robbia. Quant au fils d'Andrea, Girolamo, marié à Luisa, fille de Pierre Mattéi, il n'eut pas moins de sept enfants : Constance, Jeanne, Jacques, Pierre-François, André, Marie et Madeleine. Constance épousa Ascanio di Mari, seigneur de Beaulieu, orfèvre du roi Henri II et le meilleur élève de Benve- nuto Cellini; ce dernier parle souvent de lui dans ses mémoires tantôt avec éloge, tantôt avec dépit . Ils eurent plusieurs enfants.
  25. 1 2 3 Mercure galant, dédié à Monseigneur le Dauphin (in French). Thomas Amaulry. 1684. Robert de Lux son Fils, l'un des quatre Maistres-d'Hôtel que Loüis XIII. choisit pour servir tous les ans, & qu'il appella les Piliers de sa Maison, épousa Marie de Plaisance, qui eut l'honneur d'estre nommée par Henry IV. Sous-Gouvernante des Enfans de France. Le feu Roy, en consideration de leurs services, disposa de leurs Enfans, & mit aupres de la Reyne d'Angleterre Jacques de Lux, qui épousa Mademoiselle Courtin. Charles de Lux son Fils, a eu l'honneur d'estre Vice Chancelier de la Reyne de la Grand-Bretagne. Ils marierent l'une de leurs Filles au Comte de Schelay, qui est une des meilleures Maisons d'Angleterre, dont il y a eu lignee. Sa Majesté donna à Louis de Lux la Charge d'Ecuyer ordinaire de la Grande Ecurie, en laquelle il servit cinquante années. Il épousa Marie Merault. Françoise de Lux sa Soeur fut mariee à Monsieur de Bernet, & attachée au service de Madame la Duchesse de Savoye.
  26. ↑ "Minutes et répertoires du notaire Jean II CHAPELLAIN, janvier 1630 - décembre 1640 (étude XXIV)". p. 783. MC/ET/XXIV/348 fol. VII/C/V § Transaction entre Louis de LUX, sieur de VAUTELET, conseiller et maître d'hôtel du Roi, écuyer ordinaire de la grande Ecurie, demeurant à Paris au cloître Saint-Honoré, au nom et comme procureur de Jacques de LUX, son frère, chevalier, seigneur de VAUTELET, conseiller, maître d'hôtel du Roi et gentilhomme huissier de la chambre privée de la reine de Grande Bretagne, et de Madeleine COURTIN, sa femme, avec les autres héritiers et légataires de défunte Diane de MARY, veuve de Pierre COURTIN, sous gouvernante et dame d'atour de Madame Henriette-Marie, fille de France, à présent reine de la Grande Bretagne (avec, en pièce jointe : 14 mars 1637 style d'ANGLETERRE, étant le 24 mars 1638 en France, procuration faite à WHITEHALL près de Londres, par Guillemette COURTIN, fille de la défunte). 7 juin 1638
  27. ↑ "Minutes et répertoires du notaire François II OGIER, 14 mai 1632 - 25 janvier 1681 (étude LXXXIII)". MC/ET/LXXXIII/77 Contrat de mariage entre Jean-Baptiste de Mezières de Lepervanche, conseiller et maître d'hôtel ordinaire du roi, demeurant à Boisset-les-Prévanches, et Jeanne de Lux, fille de Marguerite Courtin, veuve de Jacques de Lux, seigneur de Vantelet, conseiller et maître d'hôtel ordinaire du roi et gentilhomme ordinaire de la chambre privée de la reine de Grande-Bretagne, étant à la suite de lad. reine à Paris au Palais-Royal, en présence notamment de Charles II d'Angleterre, de la reine mère Henriette Marie de France, de Jacques duc d'York. 6 juin 1653
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