Claudine de La Tour-Turenne explained

Claudine de La Tour-Turenne (1520–1591) was a lady-in-waiting of Marguerite de Valois (1553–1615), the spouse of the French king Henri IV (1553–1610). By birth, she was member of the House of La Tour d'Auvergne.

Early life

She was born in 1520 as the eldest child of François II de la Tour, Vicomte de Turenne (1497-1532) and his second wife Anne de La Tour de Boulogne, Dame de Montgascon (1492-1530).

Marriage

On October 31, 1535, Claudine married, at the age of 15, Justus II, seigneur of Tournon and count of Roussillon (1510–1557).^[1] They had a son and a number of daughters:

• Just Louis IV de Tournon, Count de Roussillon, Baron de Durteil (d. 1617), married Madeleine de La Rochefoucauld. They had two daughters:
  • Madeleine; married to Gaspard d'Alègre, Seigneur de Beauvoir; no issue
  • Francoise (b. 1621); married to Gaspard de Polignac, Vicomte de Polignac, Marquis de Chalencon (1579-1659). They were ancestors of Dukes of Polignac and House of Monaco.
• Claudine de Tournon-Roussillon (d. 1586), married Philibert de Rye, Count de Varax (d. 1597). They had at least six children:^[2]
  • Claude de Rye, baron of Balançon, appointed gentilhombre de la cámara to the Cardinal-Infant on 2 May 1635, married Claudine-Prospère de la Baume; daughters Madeleine and Eléonore were ladies-in-waiting to Isabella Clara Eugenia, sovereign of the Netherlands.
  • François de Rye, sumilher da cortina of the archdukes in 1606.
  • Christophe de Rye de La Palud, Count de Varax (d. 1637); married Eleonore de Chabot (1570–1618); had issue.
  • Anne-Marguerite de Rye, married Guillaume de Richardot, baron of Lembeek and later count of Galmaarden.
  • Antoinette de Rye, married Gaspar, the uncle of Ferdinand le Blanc d'Andelot
  • Alexandrine de Rye (1589–1666); married Count Leonhard II von Taxis (1594-1628). They were progenitors of the House of Thurn und Taxis.
• Hélène de Tournon, a maid of honour to Margeruite de Valois; died of a sudden illness as Marguerite and her retinue were traveling by boat through the bishopric of Liège.

Legacy

It has been suggested that the references to "bright queen Margot" and "Claudine" in Mikhail Bulgakov's novel The Master and Margarita are references to Claudine, mother of a large family and widowed at 37, and Marguerite.^[3]

Notes and References

1. Book: France), Queen Marguerite (consort of Henry IV, King of . Memoirs of Marguerite de Valois, Queen of Navarre: Written by Her Own Hand. Newly Translated in English with an Introduction and Notes by Violet Fane [pseud.] with Eight Portraits from Contemporary Engravings ]. 1892 . J. C. Nimmo . 158; 178 . en.
2. Book: Houben, Birgit . "Vous estez les premiers vassaux que j'aye et que j'aime le plus.": Burgundians in the Brussels courts of the widowed Isabella and of the Cardinal-Infant don Ferdinand (1621-1641) . "Vous estez les premiers vassaux que j'aye et que j'aime le plus." . 2021 . A Constellation of Courts . 15 . 223–254 . Vermeir . René . The Courts and Households of Habsburg Europe, 1555–1665 . Leuven University Press . 10.2307/j.ctt14jxsxk.10 . j.ctt14jxsxk.10 . 978-90-5867-990-1 . 2022-12-14 . Raeymaekers . Dries . Muñoz . José Eloy Hortal.
3. Boyarskaya . Natalia . 2009-12-15 . A la recherche de Claudine ou le libertinage démoniaque . Études de lettres . fr . 4 . 39–54 . 10.4000/edl.306 . 0014-2026. free .