Agnès Sorel
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Agnès Sorel (abt. 1421 - 1450)

Agnès "Dame de beauté" Sorel
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Agnès Sorel

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Agnès Sorel is Notable.

Born c.1421, Agnès was the daughter of Jean Soreau and Catherine de Maignelais. She is noted for being the first official royal mistress of a French king, but more so as the subject of renown fine art. Many will recognize Fouquet's work depicting her as the Madonna.[1]

She died on 9 February 1450 at Jumièges, Normandy, but her body was exhumed in modern times. Studies show the cause may have been from mercury poisoning.


Issue with Charles VII, Roi de France

  • Charlotte de Valois (1434 -1477) m. Jacques de Brézé, Count of Maulevrier. Issue:
  • Marie Marguerite de Valois (1436 - 1473) Olivier de Coétivy, Count of Taillebourg
  • Jeanne de Valois (b.1439) m. Antoine de Bueil, Count of Sancerre.


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  1. ↑ By Bree Ogle 19 Jun 2014.




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Jean Fouquet: Madonna Surrounded by Seraphim and Cherubim
Jean Fouquet: Madonna Surrounded by Seraphim and Cherubim


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Laidlaw-173 Doug Laidlaw
I have a bit of a soft spot for Agnès. I played Joan of Arc's advocate in a play in French (L'Alouette, by Jean Anouilh. The play has recently been translated into English, as "The Lark." One of the characters calls Joan "the little lark singing in the French sky.") Agnes was in the play as well. There was no interaction between her and me. Charles (dubbed "Charles Do-Nothing") was the King that Joan of Arc put on the throne. Joan deserved somebody better. Agnès wasn't his wife; she was his mistress. His queen was Marie d’Anjou. Wikipedia says that he gave Agnès the house where Joan persuaded him to be crowned. There is a scene in the play where the wife, the mother and the mistress were all sitting together discussing the latest hats (the conical ones with a piece of veil on top. ) Agnès was apparently a stunning beauty, and was constantly being sought after by artists for a sitting. I recall reading that a knight carried her name on a banner in the lists. As the Biography says, she was the model for the Madonna in the painting shown.
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Laidlaw-173 Doug Laidlaw
Over the years, it became standard for a king to marry for the dynasty, and to have a mistress for love. When the wife of George II of England was dying, she urged George to remarry. It is said that George replied: "No, I will have mistresses," to which the Queen replied: "Good Lord, that doesn't stop you." A Queen had functions that a mistress did not, including being an intercessor for people who wanted the king's ear. The mistress of another French king went everywhere with him, even while pregnant.
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