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Agnès Sorel — Charles VII’s favourite, the first acknowledged royal mistress, c. 1422–1450
Maid of honour to Isabelle of Lorraine, she became in 1444 the mistress of Charles VII, the first a king of France ever acknowledged, and received Beauté-sur-Marne, whence her byname. Jacques Cœur’s protector, she urged the king against the English, bore him daughters, and died in Normandy, shortly after childbirth, of an illness so sudden that poison was spoken of. (Editorial synthesis)
Agnès Sorel was born around 1422 (Julian calendar). (source: Encyclopædia Britannica)
Agnès Sorel died on 9 February 1450 (Julian calendar). (source: Encyclopædia Britannica)
Agnès Sorel died of a sudden illness, after childbirth. (source: Encyclopædia Britannica)
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