Françoise de Montmorency-Fosseux [SEP] date of death
Françoise de Montmorency-Fosseux
Françoise de Montmorency-Fosseux (1566 – 6 December 1614), also called "La Belle Fosseuse" or "La Fosseuse", was mistress to King Henry III of Navarre (future King Henry IV of France) from 1579 to 1581.
Biography.
Françoise de Montmorency-Fosseux was the youngest of five daughters born to Pierre I de Montmorency. At age thirteen, she became lady-in-wating to Queen Margaret of Valois. A shy and blushing girl, she caught
her ladies-in-waiting, including Françoise. Catherine advised her daughter to return Françoise to her own parents. Following this counsel, Margaret chased La Fosseuse from court in 1582. Henry took this as a personal insult, but did nothing to retaliate, as he had then fallen to the charms of "the beautiful Corisande," Diane d'Andoins.
On 11 March 1596, Françoise de Montmorency-Fosseux married François de Broc, Baron of Cinq-Mars. At her death in 1614, she was buried in the