Françoise d'Amboise

Françoise d' Amboise ( * May 9, 1427 in Thouars castle, † November 4, 1485 in Coets at Nantes) was Duchess of Brittany as the wife of Duke Peter II She was the daughter of the rich Louis d' Amboise, Viscount of Thouars.

To escape the violence of their surroundings, fled Françoises mother, Louise Marie de Rieux, with her. At the court of the Duke of Brittany and later to Vannes to Nantes At the age of three she was for political reasons, with Peter of Brittany, the second son of the Duke, engaged, she 1442, then got married at the age of 15 years. After the unexpected death of the heir Peter was declared the heir to the throne in 1450 and entered on his inheritance, the Duchy of Brittany.

As Duchess Françoise took discrete but active share in the government of the country and devoted himself to the poor and sick, but also legal issues. The marriage remained childless. When Peter II died in 1457, she came into conflict with the French king Louis XI. , Who wanted to achieve their remarriage. She founded in 1463 together with the monk Jean Soreth in Bodon the first French Carmelite whose prioress, she was also.

She was buried in the church of Notre -Dame in Nantes. A few years later she was beatified.