Charlotte de Lannoy (d. September 1626) was a French court official. She served as ''

Première dame d'honneur ''Première dame d'honneur'' ('first lady of honour'), or simply ''dame d'honneur'' ('lady of honour'), was an office at the royal court of France. It existed in nearly all French courts from the 16th-century onward. Though the tasks of the post ...

'' to the queen of France,

Anne of Austria Anne of Austria (french: Anne d'Autriche, italic=no, es, Ana María Mauricia, italic=no; 22 September 1601 – 20 January 1666) was an infanta of Spain who became Queen of France as the wife of King Louis XIII from their marriage in 1615 unti ...

, from 1624 until 1626.

Life

Charlotte de Lannoy was the daughter of Christophe, seigneur de Lannoy, gouverneur de Montreuil. She was appointed to the head of queen Anne's household by

Cardinal de Richelieu Armand Jean du Plessis, Duke of Richelieu (; 9 September 1585 – 4 December 1642), known as Cardinal Richelieu, was a French clergyman and statesman. He was also known as ''l'Éminence rouge'', or "the Red Eminence", a term derived from the ...

, to whom she was loyal, and her appointment was therefore not well seen by the queen. de Lannoy, who was described as a "respectable matron", was in service during the famous incident during the journey of the court to the coast in 1625, when the queen was famously courted by

George Villiers, 1st Duke of Buckingham George Villiers, 1st Duke of Buckingham, 28 August 1592 – 23 August 1628), was an English courtier, statesman, and patron of the arts. He was a favourite and possibly also a lover of King James I of England. Buckingham remained at the ...

, a courtship which de Lannoy attempted to prevent and left a report on to the king.Kleinman, Ruth: Anne of Austria. Queen of France. . Ohio State University Press (1985)

References

{{s-end 1626 deaths 17th-century French people French ladies-in-waiting Court of Louis XIII Household of Anne of Austria