Marie-Charlotte de Balzac d’Entragues (c. 1588-1664), was a French noblewoman. She was the

mistress Mistress is the feminine form of the English word "master" (''master'' + ''-ess'') and may refer to: Romance and relationships * Mistress (lover), a female lover of a married man ** Royal mistress * Maîtresse-en-titre, official mistress of a ...

Henry IV of France Henry IV (; 13 December 1553 – 14 May 1610), also known by the epithets Good King Henry (''le Bon Roi Henri'') or Henry the Great (''Henri le Grand''), was King of Navarre (as Henry III) from 1572 and King of France from 1589 to 16 ...

in 1605-1609. She was the daughter of Charles Balzac d'Entragues and

Marie Touchet Marie Touchet (; 1549 – 28 March 1638), Dame de Belleville, was the only mistress of Charles IX of France. Life Although born to a bourgeois family at Orléans, the daughter of Marie Mathy and a Huguenot lieutenant Jean Touchet, she "hel ...

, who was formerly the sole

Charles IX of France Charles IX (Charles Maximilien; 27 June 1550 – 30 May 1574) was List of French monarchs, King of France from 1560 until his death in 1574. He ascended the French throne upon the death of his brother Francis II of France, Francis II in 1560, an ...

, and the sister of

Catherine Henriette de Balzac d'Entragues Catherine Henriette de Balzac d'Entragues, Marquise de Verneuil (1579–1633) was the favourite mistress of Henry IV of France after Gabrielle d'Estrées died: her sister Marie-Charlotte de Balzac d’Entragues was also a mistress of the king. ...

, also mistress of Henry IV.

References

* Dominique Labarre de Raillicourt, Nouveau dictionnaire des biographies françaises, 1961 {{DEFAULTSORT:Balzac d'Entragues, Marie-Charlotte de 1580s births 1664 deaths 17th-century French women Mistresses of Henry IV of France French noblewomen