List of French royal mistresses
This article contains a listing of notable French royal mistresses.
[Chlothar I]
- Waldrada, Princess of the Lombards
- Arnegundis
[Charibert I]
- Merofleda
- Clothilde
- Marcovefa
- Theogilda
[Chilperic I]
- Fredgunde d'Ardennes, mistress, then wife
[Dagobert I]
- Regintrude of Austrasia
- Berthilde
[Charlemagne]
- Gersuinda of the Saxons
- Amaltrud of Vienne
- Ethelind
- Sigrade
- Madelgard
- Regina
- Landrade des Herbages
- Adelindus
[Louis the Pious]
- Theodelinde of Sens
[Louis the Stammerer]
- Luitgrade of Saxony
- Adelheid of Paris
[Charles the Simple]
- Edgiva of Kent
- Frederuna von Ringleheim
Philip I">Philip I of France">Philip I
- Bertrade de Montfort : marriage not recognised by the Church
Louis VI">Louis VI of France">Louis VI
Louis X">Louis X of France">Louis X
- Unknown woman, with whom he had a daughter, Eudeline.
Philip VI">Philip VI of France">Philip VI
- Béatrice de la Berruère
Charles V">Charles V of France">Charles V
- Biette de Cassinel
- Unknown, mother of Oudard d'Attainville.
Charles VI">Charles VI of France">Charles VI
Charles VII">Charles VII of France">Charles VII
[Louis XI]
Francis I">Francis I of France">Francis I
Official mistresses (''maîtresse-en-titre'')
- Françoise de Foix, countess of Châteaubriant
- Anne de Pisseleu d'Heilly, duchess of Étampes
Unofficial mistresses (''petite maîtresse'')
- Marie Gaudin, dame de La Bourdaisière, she was an ancestor of Gabrielle d'Estrées
- La Belle Ferronnière
- Claude de Rohan-Gyé, countess of Tonnerre and of Thoury
- La Châtelaine de Montfrault
- Jacquette de Lansac
Henry II">Henry II of France">Henry II
Official mistresses (''maîtresse-en-titre'')
Unofficial mistresses (''petite maîtresse'')
- Jane Fleming
- Filippa Duci
- Nicole de Savigny, baroness of Fontette
Charles IX">Charles IX of France">Charles IX
Unofficial mistresses (''petite maîtresse'')
Henry III">Henry III of France">Henry III
Unofficial mistresses (''petite maîtresse'')
- Louise de La Béraudière du Rouhet
- Renée de Rieux de Châteauneuf
- Veronica Franco
- Marie of Cleves, Princess of Condé
- Jeanne de Laval, dame de Senneterre
- Françoise Babou de La Bourdaisière, mother of Gabrielle d'Estrées
Henry IV">Henry IV of France">Henry IV
This list includes historically recognised and popularly attributed mistresses:Official mistresses (''maîtresse-en-titre'')
- Gabrielle d'Estrées, mistress 1591–1599
- Catherine Henriette de Balzac d'Entragues, marquise of Verneuil, mistress 1599–1609
Unofficial mistresses (''petite maîtresse'')
- Fleurette de Nérac, vers 1571–1572, fille d’un jardinier de Nérac
- Charlotte de Sauve, mistress in 1572.
- Bretine de Duras, mistress 1573–1574
- Louise de la Béraudière, called « La belle Rouet », mistress in 1575, maid of honour of Queen Margaret
- Louise Borré, mistress 1575–1576, daughter of a royal notary. She gave him a son, Hervé
- Jeanne de Tignonville, mistress 1577–1578
- Victoire de Ayala, mistress in 1578, maid of honour of Catherine de' Medici
- Mlle Rebours, mistress in 1579, maid of honour of Queen Margaret
- Mlle de Montagu, mistress in 1579
- Mme d’Allous, mistress in 1579
- Aimée Le Grand, mistress in 1579
- Arnaudine, mistress in 1579
- La garce de Goliath », mistress in 1579
- Catherine de Luc, mistress in 1579. She died of hunger when Henry abandoned her, leaving behind their child.
- Anne de Cambefort, mistress in 1579. She committed suicide by jumping out of a window after Henry left her
- Françoise de Montmorency, mistress 1579–1581, maid of honour of Queen Margaret. She had one stillborn daughter with the king in 1581.
- Diane d'Andouins, called « la belle Corisande »
- Esther Imbert, mistress 1587–1588. She had two sons with Henry.
- Martine, rochelaise, en 1587. She had one child with Henry.
- Antoinette de Pons, marquess of Guercheville
- Catherine de Verdun
- Mme Quelin, mistress in 1598
- Isabelle Potier, mistress 1598–1599
- Mlle Clein, mistress in 1599
- La Glandée, mistress in 1599
- Marie-Françoise de La Bourdaisière, sister of Gabrielle d’Estrées, mistress in 1599
- Jacqueline de Bueil
- Charlotte des Essarts, mistress 1607–1609
- Angélique Paulet, mistress in 1610
[Louis XIV]
Official mistresses (''maîtresse-en-titre'')
- 1661–1667: Louise de La Vallière, duchess of Vaujours
- 1667–1681: Françoise-Athénaïs de Rochechouart de Mortemart, marquise of Montespan
- 1678–1681: Marie Angélique de Scoraille de Roussille, duchess of Fontanges
- 1683–1715: Françoise d'Aubigné, marquise of Maintenon. Not really a mistress but a secret morganatic wife
Unofficial mistresses (''petite maîtresse'')
- Catherine Bellier baroness of Beauvais, between 1652–1654
- Olympe Mancini in 1654–1657 and 1660-1661
- Anne-Madeleine de Conty d'Argencourt in 1658
- Marie Mancini in 1658–1659; not a mistress but a platonic love
- Name unknown: a gardener's daughter who gave birth to a daughter in 1660
- Henrietta Anne of England his sister-in-law, probably platonic, in 1660–1661
- Bonne de Pons d'Heudicourt in 1665
- Catherine-Charlotte de Gramont princess of Monaco in 1665
- Gabrielle de Rochechouart de Mortemart, marquise of Thianges; sister of madame de Montespan
- Anne de Rohan-Chabot, princess of Soubise, on-and-off in 1669–1675
- Claude de Vin des Œillets in 1670–1676
- Diane-Gabrielle de Damas de Thianges in 1670–1673; daughter of madame de Thianges and niece of madame de Montespan
- Lydie de Rochefort-Théobon in 1673–1677
- Isabelle de Ludres in 1675–1678
- Marie-Charlotte de Castelnau, comtesse de Louvigny et duchesse de Gramont in 1676–1677
- Marie-Madeleine Agnès de Gontaut Biron, marquise de Nogaret in 1680–1683
- Louise-Elisabeth de Rouxel dite Mme de Grancey in 1681
- Jeanne de Rouvroy, marquise de Chevrières in 1681
- Françoise Thérèse de Voyer de Dorée, Mlle d’Oré, in 1681
- Marie-Antoinette de Rouvroy, comtesse d’Oisy in 1681
- Marie-Rosalie de Piennes, future marquise de Châtillon in 1681
- Mme de Saint-Martin in 1682
- Marie-Louise de Montmorency-Laval, duchesse de Roquelaure in 1683
- Julie de Guenami, dite Mlle de Châteaubriant in 1683
[Louis XV]
Official mistresses (''maîtresse-en-titre'')
- 1732–1742: Louise Julie, Comtesse de Mailly
- 1739–1741: Pauline-Félicité de Mailly
- 1742–1745: Diane-Adélaïde de Mailly
- 1742–1744: Marie Anne de Mailly-Nesle
- 1745–1764: Madame de Pompadour
- 1769–1774: Madame du Barry
Unofficial mistresses (''petite maîtresse'')
After 1755, unofficial lovers of the king who did not belong to the nobility were often kept at the Parc-aux-Cerfs.- 1738: NN, a butcher's daughter in Versailles
- 1738: Thérèse-Eulalie de Beaupoil de Saint-Aulaire, marquise de Beuvron
- 1738: Marie-Anne de Vougny Madame Amelot
- 1748: Anne-Marie de Montmorency-Luxembourg, princesse de Robecq.
- 1748: Marie-Anne-Françoise de Noailles, comtesse de La Marck.
- 1749: Elisabeth-Charlotte Huguet de Sémonville, comtesse d'Estrades.
- 1749: Marie-Françoise de Carbonnel de Canisy, marquise d’Antin puis comtesse de Forcalquier.
- 1750: Alexandrine Sublet d'Heudicourt, marquise de Belsunce.
- 1750: Françoise de Chalus, duchesse de Narbonne-Lara, première femme de chambre de la duchesse de Parme.
- 1750–1750: Irène du Buisson de Longpré
- 1750–1751: Marie Geneviève Radix de Sainte-Foy
- 1752: Mlle Trusson, femme de chambre de la dauphine Marie-Josèphe de Saxe.
- 1752: Jeanne-Marguerite de Niquet dite Mlle de Niquet.
- 1752: Mlle de Saint-André
- 1752–1755: Thérèse Guerbois
- 1752–1752: Charlotte Rosalie de Choiseul-Beaupré
- 1752–1754: Marie-Louise O'Murphy
- 1755–1755: Françoise de Chalus, duchess of Narbonne-Lara
- 1755–1757: Brigitte O'Murphy
- 1755: Mlle Fouquet, daughter of a hairdresser
- 1755: Mlle Robert
- 1755–1759: Mlle David
- 1755–1759: Mlle Armory, « Mimi», daughter of a ballet dancer
- 1756: Gabrielle-Charlotte Françoise d‘Hénin-Liétard, vicomtesse de Cambis, née princesse de Chimay
- 1756: Dorothée, daughter of a water carrier in Strasbourg.
- 1756: Mlle Selin
- 1757–1757: Marie Anne de Coislin
- 1758: Marie-Louise de Marny, Madame de Giambone
- 1759: Marie-Madeleine Couppier de Romans, Madame Varnier
- 1759–1762: Marguerite-Catherine Haynault, marquise of Montmelas
- 1760–1763: Lucie Madeleine d'Estaing
- 1760–1765: Anne Couppier de Romans, baroness of Meilly-Coulonge
- 1762–1765: Louise-Jeanne Tiercelin de La Colleterie, called Madame de Bonneval
- 1763–1765: Anne Thoinard de Jouy
- 1763: Marie-Françoise-Marguerite de Talleyrand-Périgord, comtesse de Périgord
- 1764: Béatrix de Choiseul-Stainville, duchesse de Gramont
- 1764: Louise Jeanne Marie de Courtarvel de Pezé, marquise de Dreux-Brézé
- 1763–1765: Anne Thoynard de Jouy, comtesse d’Esparbès de Lussan
- 1765: Marie-Adélaïde de Bullioud, comtesse de Séran
- 1768–1768: Catherine Éléonore Bénard
- 1768–1768: Marie Thérèse Françoise Boisselet
- 1768: Jeanne-Marguerite Salvetat, actress
- 1771: "demoiselle de Smith"
- 1771: Madame Bèche, wife of a musician of the royal chapel
- 1771: Françoise-Marie-Antoinette de Saucerotte, Mademoiselle Raucourt, actress
- 1772: Madame d’Amerval
- 1773: Rose-Marie-Hélène de Tournon, vicomtesse du Barry
- 1774–1774: Albertine-Elisabeth Pater
- Date unknown: Marthe-Antoinette Aubry de Vatan
- Date unknown: Mme de Grandis, Mme de Martinville, Mlle de Ville, courtesan
- Date unknown: Mme de Beaunier, Mlle de Malignan, Mme de Salis
[Napoleon] I
- 1806–1808: Eléonore Denuelle
- 1809–1810: Marie Walewska
[Louis XVIII]
Official mistresses (''maîtresse-en-titre'')
Unofficial mistresses (''petite maîtresse'')
- 1780–1791: Anne Jacobée Nompar
Charles X">Charles X of France">Charles X
- Rosalie Duthé ; equally mistress of Philippe Égalité
- Louise d'Esparbès de Lussan
- Aglaé de Polignac
[Napoleon III]
- 1856–1857: Virginia Oldoini, Countess of Castiglione
- 1857–1861: Marie-Anne Walewska
- 1863–1870: Marguerite Bellanger