Françoise d'Amboise, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Member of the French nobility and co-founder of the first monastery of the Carmelites in France
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Place of Birth: Thouars, Nouvelle-Aquitaine, France
About Françoise d'Amboise
- Françoise d'Amboise (29 May 1427 – 4 November 1485) was a French Roman Catholic declared "blessed" and a duchess consort of Brittany.
- She 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, and Louise-Marie de Rieux.
- To escape from the violence of the times, she fled with her mother to the court of Brittany, which resided in Vannes and, later on, in Nantes.
- At the age of three she had been engaged to Peter, the second son of John V, Duke of Brittany, for political reasons.
- She married him at the age of fifteen, in 1442.In 1450, after the unexpected death of Pierre's elder brother, her husband came to rule Brittany as Pierre II.
- 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 a nun in 1468, when entering the convent of the Three Maries at Vannes.
- She died in Nantes, at the monastery of the Carmelite nuns.
- In 1863, she was beatified by Pope Pius IX.
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