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Rosier diane de poitiers biography


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Diane de Poitiers was born in late 1499 or early 1500, the daughter of Jean de Poitiers and his wife Jeanne de Batarnay.

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  • Her mother was the daughter and only surviving child of Imbert de Batarnay, the remarkable negotiator and diplomat who served four French kings. She was born in the Dauphiné in the south-east of France, where her father held territory.

    For more than twenty years she was the mistress of Henri II, King of France. Clever and well educated, with a head for business and politics, she strongly influenced the king.

    Du Rosier, rewarded with the archbishopric of Toulouse in 1451, also wrote tracts defending the pope's temporal powers and the liberties of the church.

    She was clearly his soulmate, despite the twenty year gap in their ages.


     The tomb of Imbert de Batarnay. He is the effigy in the foreground.



    Her family operated in the most intimate royal circles.

    Her paternal grandfather had married the illegitimate daughter of Louis XI. In medieval times illegitimate children of noblemen were acknowledged openly and shared all the privileges of their legitimate half siblings.


     Diane de Poitiers, port