Odette de Champdivers, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
TweetOdette de Champdivers
Mistress of Charles VI of France
Date of Birth: 
Place of Birth: Burgundy, Bourgogne-Franche-Comté, France
About Odette de Champdivers
- Odette de Champdivers (also known as Oudine or Odinette; c.
- 1390 - c.
- 1425) was the chief mistress of Charles VI of France (the Mad).
- She was called la petite reine ("the little queen") by Charles and contemporaries. According to Georges Bordonove, "Odette was the daughter of a maître d'hôtel of the King's Household, certain Guyot de Champdivers", who in fact was her brother.
- The messages of Père Anselme established her as a daughter of Odin or Oudin de Champdivers, who around 1387 was equerry stableman (Latin: marescallus equorum) at the court of King Charles VI.She features in the novel Isabel de Bavière (1835) by Alexandre Dumas.
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