Diane+de+Poitiers

=**__Diane de Poitiers__**=


 * Diane de Poitiers was a noblewoman and a fixture at the courts of Francis I and Henri II of France.


 * At the age of 15, Diane de Poitiers married a man 39 years older, Louis de Brézé, seigneur d'Anet. He was a grandson of King Charles VII who served the court of King François I.


 * Diane de Poitiers was born the daughter of Jean de Poitiers, Seigneur de Saint Vallier and Jeanne de Batarnay in the château de Saint-Vallier, in the town of Saint-Vallier, Drôme, in the Rhône-Alpes region of France.


 * Diane de Poitiers was made Duchess of Valentinois and, after the king's death (1559), retired to her Château d'Anet.


 * Diane de Poitiers was in the most famous royal love triangle in the history of France which is full of romance and rivalry.


 * Louis de Brézé, Diane de Poitiers's husband died in Anet on the 23rd of July 1531 . She morned him sincerely. She had a magnificent tomb erected in the cathedral at Rouen and went into mourning which she never abandoned.


 * She was the first and only royal mistress in French history to have a coin minted in her likeness.







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