Charlotte Gouffier de Boisy, Madame de Cossé-Brissac (born 1482) was a French noblewoman and courtier who served as the

Governess of the Children of France The Governess of the Children of France (sometimes the Governess of the Royal Children) was office at the royal French court during pre-Revolutionary France and the Bourbon Restoration. She was charged with the education of the children and grandchi ...

Biography

Gouffier de Boisy was born in 1482 to Guillaume

Gouffier Gouffier, the name of a great France, French family, which owned the estate of Bonnivet in Poitou from the 14th century. *Guillaume Gouffier, chamberlain to Charles VII of France, Charles VII, was an inveterate enemy of Jacques Coeur, obtaining his ...

, Lord of Boisy and Philippa de Montmorency. She was a sister of

Artus Gouffier, Lord of Boissy Artus Gouffier de Boissy (6 September 1475 – 13 May 1519 in Montpellier) was a French nobleman and politician. He was duke of Roannez and pair de France, count of Étampes, count of Caravaggio, baron of Passavant, of Maulévrier, of Roann ...

Adrian Gouffier de Boissy Adrian Gouffier de Boissy (died 1523) was a French people, French Catholic Church, Roman Catholic Bishop (Catholic Church), bishop and Cardinal (Catholicism), cardinal. Biography A member of the Gouffier family, Adrian Gouffier de Boissy was born ...

, and

Guillaume Gouffier, seigneur de Bonnivet Guillaume Gouffier, seigneur de Bonnivet (c. 1488 – 24 February 1525) was a French soldier. The younger brother of Artus Gouffier, seigneur de Boisy, tutor of Francis I of France, Bonnivet was brought up with Francis, and after the young king ...

. She was a first cousin of

Anne de Montmorency Anne, Duke of Montmorency, Honorary Knight of the Garter (15 March 1493, Chantilly, Oise12 November 1567, Paris) was a French soldier, statesman and diplomat. He became Marshal of France and Constable of France and served five kings. Early lif ...

. In 1503 she married Rene de Cossé, Lord of Cossé and Brissac. She was the mother of

Charles de Cossé, Count of Brissac Charles de Cossé, comte de Brissac (1505 ( O.S.)/06 – 1563), was a French courtier and soldier, named ''beau Brissac'' at court and remembered as the ''Maréchal Brissac''. A member of the nobility of Anjou, he was appointed in 1540 to his fath ...

and the grandmother of

Charles II de Cossé, Duke of Brissac Charles II de Cossé (1550June 1621) was the first Duke of Brissac, a title he was granted in 1611. He was a prominent French soldier and became a Marshal of France, a position conferred upon him by Henry IV of France in 1594. He was the secon ...

. In 1518 she was appointed as the

, a post previously held by

Guillemette de Sarrebruck Guillemette de Sarrebruck (circa 1490–1571) was a French court official. She served as Governess of the Children of France, and '' Première dame d'honneur'' to the queen of France, Mary Stuart, from 1559 until 1560. She had the title comtes ...

. As royal governess she was in charge of the education of the children of

Francis I of France Francis I (french: François Ier; frm, Francoys; 12 September 1494 – 31 March 1547) was King of France from 1515 until his death in 1547. He was the son of Charles, Count of Angoulême, and Louise of Savoy. He succeeded his first cousin once ...

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