Françoise d'Amboise
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| Blessed Françoise d’Amboise | |
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| Born | May 29, 1427 |
| Died | November 4, 1485 |
| Venerated in | Roman Catholic Church |
| Beatified | a few years after her death |
| Feast | June 1 |
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Françoise d'Amboise (May 29, 1427 – November 4, 1485), was born in the castle of Thouars. She was the daughter of the rich noble Louis d'Amboise, prince of Talmont and Viscount of Thouars.
To escape from the violence of the times, she fled with her mother, Louise-Marie de Rieux, to the court of Brittany, which resided in Valves and, later on, in Nantes. At the age of three she had been engaged to Pierre II of Brittany, the second son of the duke, for political reasons. She married him at the age of fifteen, in 1442. In 1450, after the unexpected death of his brother, Pierre II came to rule Brittany. Françoise d'Amboise became the Duchess of Brittany and had a discrete but active share in governing Brittany. She came to help the poor and the sick. She had also a strong feeling about justice. Her husband died of a disease in 1457. She then entered into a conflict with King Louis XI who wanted to marry her. A widow without children, she founded, together with Jean Soreth, the first monastery of the Carmelites in France, in 1463. She took the veil in 1468, when entering the convent of the Three Maries at Vannes. She died in Nantes, at the monastery of the Carmelite nuns. A few years later, she was beatified by the pope.
[edit] References
- Eugène Lafolye, Compte des dépenses de Françoise d'Amboise, Editeur Vannes, 1889.
- J.-L. Chalnel, Histoire de la Touraine, 1841, tome IV.
- "Bl. Frances d'Amboise". Catholic Encyclopedia. (1913). New York: Robert Appleton Company.
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