[162] Claude de Lorraine, Prince de Joinville, was the fourth son of Henri, Duc de Guise, surnamed the _Balafré_, brother of Charles, Duc de Mayenne, and of Louis, Cardinal de Guise. He married Marie de Rohan, Duchesse de Chevreuse, the daughter of Hercule de Rohan, Duc de Montbazon, and peer of France, and was subsequently known as Duc de Chevreuse. He died in 1657. [163] _Amours du Grand Alcandre_, pp. 272, 273. [164] Dreux du Radier, vol. vi. p. 85. Saint-Edmé, p. 218. [165] _Amours du Grand Alcandre_, p. 274. [166] _Amours du Grand Alcandre_, p. 276. [167] Mademoiselle de Sourdis was the daughter of François d'Escoubleau, Seigneur de Jouy, de Launay, Marquis de Sourdis, etc., and of Isabelle Babou, Dame d'Alluie, daughter of Jean Babou, Seigneur de la Bourdaisière, and aunt of Gabrielle d'Estrées. He was deprived of the government of Chartres by the League; but was restored by Henri III at the entreaty of Gabrielle. [168] Caterina Selvaggio was one of the Queen's favourite Italian waiting-women. [169] Sully, _Mém_. vol. iv. pp. 93, 94. [170] Rambure, _MS. Mém_. vol. i. p. 332. [171] Capefigue, _Hist, de la Réforme, de la Ligue, et du Règne de Henri IV_, vol. viii. pp. 147, 148. [172] _Histoire de la Mère et du Fils_, a continuation of the _Memoirs of Richelieu,_ incorrectly attributed to Mézeray, vol. i. p. 7. [173] Sully, _Note to Memoirs_, vol. iv. pp. 95, 96. [174] Richelieu, _La Mère et le Fils_, vol. i. p. 7. [175] Claude, Seigneur de la Trémouille, second Duc de Thouars, peer of France, Prince de Talmond, was born in the year 1566, and first bore arms under François de Bourbon, Duc de Montpensier. He embraced the reformed religion, and attached himself to the fortunes of Henri de Navarre, subsequently King of France, whom he followed to the sieges of Rouen and Poitiers, and the battle of Fontaine-Française; after which the King conferred upon him the rank of peer of France. He was the brother-in-law of the Duc de Bouillon. He died in the castle of Thouars, to which he had retired, suspected of treason, after refusing to return to Court to justify himself, on the 25th of October 1604, in his thirty-eighth year.