Antoinette d'Albert (died 1644) was a French court official. She served as the ''

dame d'atour ''Dame d'atour'' () was an office at the royal court of France. It existed in nearly all French courts from the 16th-century onward. The ''dame d'honneur'' was selected from the members of the highest French nobility. They were ranked between th ...

'' to the queen of France,

Anne of Austria Anne of Austria (; ; born Ana María Mauricia; 22 September 1601 – 20 January 1666) was Queen of France from 1615 to 1643 by marriage to King Louis XIII. She was also Queen of Navarre until the kingdom's annexation into the French crown ...

, between 1615 and 1626.

Life

She was the daughter of Honoré d'Albert, ''

seigneur A seigneur () or lord is an originally feudal title in France before the Revolution, in New France and British North America until 1854, and in the Channel Islands to this day. The seigneur owned a seigneurie, seigneury, or lordship—a form of ...

'' of Luynes, and Anne de Rodulph, sister of Charles d'Albert, duc de Luynes, and married in 1605 to Barthélémy, seigneur de Vernet, and in 1628 to Henri Robert de La Marck (1575-1652), duc de Bouillon. In 1625, she was one of the witnesses interrogated during the Buckingham Affair, when queen Anne and

George Villiers, 1st Duke of Buckingham George Villiers, 1st Duke of Buckingham ( ; 20 August 1592 – 23 August 1628), was an English courtier, statesman, and patron of the arts. He was a favourite and self-described "lover" of King James VI and I. Buckingham remained at the heigh ...

were suspected of adultery during the journey through the French coast for the departure of

Henrietta Maria of France Henrietta Maria of France ( French: ''Henriette Marie''; 25 November 1609 – 10 September 1669) was Queen of England, Scotland and Ireland from her marriage to King Charles I on 13 June 1625 until his execution on 30 January 1649. She was ...

to England.Kleinman, Ruth: Anne of Austria. Queen of France. . Ohio State University Press (1985) While the whole affair was dismissed, as the witnesses assured the king that, regardless of the attraction between the queen and the duke, adultery had been impossible simply because they had not been alone with each other long enough to have intercourse.Kleinman, Ruth: Anne of Austria. Queen of France. . Ohio State University Press (1985) Antoinette d'Albert de Luynes was nevertheless dismissed for having left them alone for the famous moment, during which Anne called out, leading to the scandal and informal interrogation of witnesses.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Albert de Luynes, Antoinette d' French ladies-in-waiting 1644 deaths Year of birth unknown Household of Anne of Austria House of Albert 17th-century French nobility