Louis, Seigneur de Lansac, was State Councilor, Ambassador in 1554, captain of 100 men-at-arms, knight of the order of Saint-Michel on September and knight of the order of the Holy Spirit. Gabrielle was the niece of Aimery de Rochechouart, bishop of Sisteron,[11] who had succeeded his uncle Albin de Rochechouart in that position.[12]
Her parents were François de Rochechouart (b. 25 December 1502), Baron de Mortemart, Seigneur de Tonnay-Charente and Vivonne, knight of the order of the king, and Renée Taveau, only daughter and heiress of Leon Taveau, Baron de Mortemer, and Jeanne Frotier. Gabrielle's parents' marriage took place on 16 November 1509, when her father was seven years old. Gabrielle herself was either 16 (N.S.) or 17 (O.S.) at her first marriage to François de Goulaines, Seigneur de Martigné-Brittard. The marriage contract is dated 13 February 1547.[note 1] Her second marriage, by contract dated 9 March 1558,[13] was to François de Volvire, Chevalier, Baron de Ruffec, Vicomte du Bois-de-la-Roche, the son of René de Volvire, Baron de Ruffec[13] and Catherine de Montauban, his first wife. Gabrielle's third and last marriage, to Louis de Saint-Gelais the seigneur de Lanssac, took place on 8 October[14] 1565. Her sister Madeleine married in 1554 Baudouin de Goulaines, the brother of her sister's first husband.[1]
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^Lucien Romier (1922). Le Royaume de Catherine de Médicis : la France à la veille des guerres de religion. Paris: Perrin et Cie.
^Gérard Le Bouëdec, Christophe Cérino, , Pouvoirs et littoraux du du xve au xxe siècle: actes du colloque international de Lorient, 24, 25, 26 septembre 1998, Presses Universitaires de Rennes, 2000
^Laurent Coste, Messieurs de Bordeaux : pouvoirs et hommes de pouvoir à l'hôtel de ville, 1548-1789, Fédération historique du Sud-Ouest, 2006
^Mickaël Augeron, Dominique Guillemet, Champlain ou les portes du nouveau-monde : cinq siècles d'échanges entre le centre-ouest français et l'Amérique du Nord, xvie – xxe siècles, Geste, 2004
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