Françoise de Lansac, née ''de Sainte-Maure de Montausier'' (1582-1657) was a French courtier. She was the royal

governess A governess is a woman employed as a private tutor, who teaches and trains a child or children in their home. A governess often lives in the same residence as the children she is teaching; depending on terms of their employment, they may or ma ...

of King

Louis XIV of France LouisXIV (Louis-Dieudonné; 5 September 16381 September 1715), also known as Louis the Great () or the Sun King (), was King of France from 1643 until his death in 1715. His verified reign of 72 years and 110 days is the List of longest-reign ...

and his brother from 1638 until 1643. She was the daughter of Gilles de Souvré and married to Artus de Saint Gelais in 1601. She was a relative of

Cardinal Richelieu Armand Jean du Plessis, 1st Duke of Richelieu (9 September 1585 – 4 December 1642), commonly known as Cardinal Richelieu, was a Catholic Church in France, French Catholic prelate and statesman who had an outsized influence in civil and religi ...

. In 1638, the king and Cardinal Richelieu reorganized the household of the queen and replaced everyone considered disloyal to the king and the cardinal with their own loyalists.Kleinman, Ruth: Anne of Austria. Queen of France. . Ohio State University Press (1985) Consequently, Françoise de Lansac was appointed Royal Governess, and Count de Brassac and his spouse Catherine de Brassac were appointed to the positions superintendent of the household of the queen and ''Première dame d'honneur'', respectively, in order to keep the queen and her household under control. When Queen Anne became regent in 1643, she replaced her with Marie-Catherine de Senecey.

References

* Kleinman, Ruth: Anne of Austria. Queen of France. . Ohio State University Press (1985) {{DEFAULTSORT:Francoise de Lansac 1657 deaths 17th-century French people 1582 births Governesses to the Children of France Court of Louis XIII 16th-century French educators 17th-century French educators 16th-century French women educators 17th-century French women educators