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Françoise Athénaïs de Rochechouart de Mortemart, marquise of Montespan (5 October 1640 – 27 May 1707), better known as ''Madame de Montespan'', was the most celebrated maîtresse en titre of King Louis XIV of France, by whom she had seven children.〔Lisa Hilton, ''Athénaïs: The Life of Louis XIV's Mistress - the Real Queen of France'', Little, Brown 2002, 4.〕 Born into one of the oldest noble families of France, the House of Rochechouart, Madame de Montespan was called by some the ''true Queen of France'' during her romantic relationship with Louis XIV due to the pervasiveness of her influence at court during that time.〔 Her so-called "reign" lasted from around 1667, when she first danced with Louis XIV at a ball hosted by the king's younger brother, Philippe I, Duke of Orléans, at the Louvre Palace, until her alleged involvement in the notorious ''Affaire des Poisons'' in the late 1670s to 1680s. Her immediate contemporary was Barbara Villiers, mistress of King Charles II of England. She is an ancestress of several royal houses in Europe, including those of Spain, Italy, Bulgaria and Portugal.〔See the Descendants of Louis XIV of France for her extended family.〕 ==Early life== Françoise de Rochechouart de Mortemart was born on 5 October 1640 and baptised the same day at the Château of Lussac-les-Châteaux〔See :fr:Lussac-les-Châteaux 〕 in today's Vienne department, in the Poitou-Charentes region in France. Françoise (as a ''précieuse'', she later adopted the name "Athénaïs"), or more formally, Mlle de Tonnay-Charente, possessed the blood of two of the oldest noble families of France through her parents, Gabriel de Rochechouart, Duke of Mortemart, Prince of Tonnay-Charente, and Diane de Grandseigne, a lady-in-waiting to Anne of Austria, Queen consort of France. From her father, she inherited the famous Mortemart "ésprit" ("wit"). As a young girl, she often travelled with her mother between the family estates and the court at the Louvre in Paris. At the age of twelve, she began her formal education at the Convent of St Mary at Saintes, where her sister Gabrielle had started hers almost a decade earlier. She was very religious and took Communion once a week, a practise that she would continue as a young woman.〔 Her siblings were: * Gabrielle (1633–1693), who married Claude Léonor Damas de Thianges, Marquis of Thianges and had children. * Louis Victor (25 August 1636 – 1688), known as the Marquis of Vivonne, who was an ''enfant d'honneur'' and a friend of Louis XIV of France in his youth. * Marie Madeleine Gabrielle Adélaïde (1645–1704), who due to her relationship with Françoise-Athénaïs, was known as the Queen of Abbesses. At the age of twenty, Françoise-Athénaïs became a maid-of-honour to the king's sister-in-law, Princess Henrietta Anne of England, who was known at court by the traditional honorific of ''Madame''. Later, because of the relationship between her mother and the queen dowager, Anne of Austria, Françoise-Athénaïs was appointed to be a lady-in-waiting to the king's wife, Maria Theresa of Spain. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Françoise-Athénaïs, marquise de Montespan」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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