Louise de Valentinois--a handsome damsel of the age of
fourteen--remained for three years under the tutelage of the Duchess of
Angoulême--the mother of King Francis I--to whom Charlotte d’Albret had
entrusted her child. Louise married, at the age of seventeen, Louis de
la Trémouille, Prince de Talmont and Vicomte de Thouars, known as the
Knight Sans Peur et Sans Reproche. She maintained some correspondence
with her aunt, Lucrezia Borgia, whom she had never seen, and ever signed
herself “Louise de Valentinois.” At the age of thirty--Trémouille having
been killed at Pavia--she married, in second nuptials, Philippe de
Bourbon-Busset.
Lucrezia died in 1519, one year after her mother, Vanozza de’Catanei,
with whom she corresponded to the end.
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