akingswhore: Marie de Breuillet (c. 1080 – 1119) Mistress of: King Louis VI of France.Tenure:

akingswhore:Marie de Breuillet (c. 1080 – 1119)Mistress of: King Louis VI of France.Tenure: c. 1100 - 1104.Royal Bastards One.Fall From Power: Unknown.Marie de Breuillet was the daughter of Renaud de Breuillet, a minor lord who was responsible for the royal stables. Her father’s job meant that the “gentle and timid” Marie was fortunate enough to be brought up at court, and it just so happened that she was more or less the same age as Louis, Dauphin of France and future King Louis VI. Louis was not considered attractive, but in his youth he was known to be courageous and valiant, which “matured his spirit with youthful vigor.” Likewise, Marie was not considered pretty, though she possessed a certain amount of “charm [and] irresistible candor” that made her company pleasurable.Marie’s parents soon noticed her certain fondness for Louis, and his mutual affection of her, and this was enough for her them to thrust their daughter into the royal bed in hopes that she (or more importantly her family) would earn titles, land and money from their relationship. Depending on your source, they succeeded sometime between 1101 and 1104, for Louis and Marie welcomed a baby daughter named Isabelle born sometime between those dates. Of course, by then it was necessary for Louis to find a more suitable bride, and Marie retired to a convent in Paris just prior to his marriage to Lucienne de Rochefort in 1104. Their childless union was annulled three years later and, in 1115, Louis married Adelaide of Maurienne, by whom he had eight children. Despite the eight year gap between marriages, there is no record that Louis ever took another mistress after Marie.Marie was not long to stay at the convent, and she married Thévin d'Orsay, by whom she had two sons. Marie died aged about 35 years old in 1119, though where she is buried in not known. Her daughter Isabelle remained at court until 1117, at which time her father (now King Louis VI) arranged for her to marry Guillaume I of Chaumont, whilst also providing her with a generous dowry. SourcesIllustration of some doting parents from the Große Heidelberger Liederhandschrift (Codex Manesse Cod. Pal. germ. 848:) (Zürich, ca. 1300 bis ca. 1340). Suger, Abbot of Saint Denis. The Deeds of Louis the Fat. Translated with introduction and notes by Richard Cusimano and John Moorhead. Washington, DC : Catholic University of America Press,1992. ISBN: 0813207584. Robert Fawtier. The Capetian Kings of France:Monarchy and Nation 987-1328, transl. Lionel Butler and R.J. Adam, (Macmillan Education Ltd.. (1989) -- source link

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