Charlotte de Sauve | |
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 Portrait of Charlotte de Sauve, by an unknown artist | |
| suo jure Baroness of Semblançay and Viscountess of Tours | |
| Reign | -30 September 1617 |
| Predecessor | Jacques de Beaune |
| Successor | Louis de La Tremoille |
| Full name | Charlotte de Beaune Semblançay |
| Known for | Mistress of Henry IV of France, Francis, Duke of Anjou, and Henry I, Duke of Guise Member of the Flying Squadron |
| Born | 26 October 1551 France |
| Died | 30 September 1617 (aged 65) France |
| Noble family | de Beaune |
| Spouse(s) | Simon Fizes, baron de Sauves Francois de La Tremoille, Marquis de Noirmoutier |
| Issue | Louis de La Tremoille |
| Father | Jacques de Beaune |
| Mother | Gabrielle de Sade |
Charlotte de Beaune Semblançay, Viscountess of Tours, Baroness de Sauve, Marquise de Noirmoutier (26 October 1551 – 30 September 1617)[1] was a French noblewoman and a mistress of King Henry of Navarre, who later ruled as King Henry IV of France. She was a member of queen mother Catherine de' Medici's notorious "Flying Squadron" (L'escadron volant in French), a group of beautiful female spies and informants recruited to seduce important men at court, and thereby extract information to pass on to the Queen Mother.[2]
- ^ 1911 edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica
- ^ Strage, Mark (1976). Women of Power: The Life and Times of Catherine de Medici. New York and London: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich. p.185. ISBN 0-15-198370-4