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Diane de France, suo jure Duchess of Angoulême (25 July 1538 – 11 January 1619) was the natural (illegitimate) daughter of Henry II of France and his Italian lover Filippa Duci. She played an important political role during the French Wars of Religion and built the Hôtel d'Angoulême in Paris.
Diane, Dowager Duchess of Württemberg (née Princess Diane of Orléans; born 24 March 1940) is a French-German painter, sculptor, writer and philanthropist. She is the widow of Carl, Duke of Württemberg , head of the House of Württemberg .
Diane de Poitiers was born on 9 January 1500, in the Château de Saint-Vallier, Drôme, France. [a] [1] Her parents were Jean de Poitiers, Seigneur de Saint Vallier, and Jeanne de Batarnay. [1] She became a keen athlete, and frequently went riding and swimming for exercise. [2]
The title of Duchess of Angoulême was created for Diane de France, daughter (legitimated) of King Henry II of France. Title created in 1582, when Diane received the duchy of Angoulême in appanage, and became extinct upon her death in 1619.
Diane Adélaïde de Mailly-Nesle, Duchesse de Lauraguais (11 February 1713 – 3 November 1769 in Paris) was the third of the five famous de Nesle sisters, four of whom would become the mistress of King Louis XV of France. She was his mistress on and off from 1742 to 1745.
Francis was born 11 years after his parents' wedding. The long delay in producing an heir may have been due to his father's repudiation of his mother in favour of his mistress Diane de Poitiers, [1] but this repudiation was mitigated by Diane's insistence that Henry spend his nights with Catherine. [1]
In 1541, Francis I of France granted Duci 400 livres tournois a year for life in an Ordinaire de Touraine and allowed her to retire to a convent. [12] She married the Italian gentleman and privy councillor Jean Bernardin de Saint-Severin in 1546. [1] After Diane was legitimized, Filippa was known as dame de Bléré en Touraine. [1]
Anet in the 18th century. The Château d'Anet is a château near Dreux, in the Eure-et-Loir department in northern France, built by Philibert de l'Orme from 1547 to 1552 [1] for Diane de Poitiers, the mistress of Henry II of France.