Marie Christine de Pardaillan de Gondrin

Marie Christine de Pardaillan de Gondrin (17 November 1663 – 1675) was the eldest legitimate child of Françoise de Rochechouart de Mortemart and her husband, the Marquis of Montespan. She died in her teens and never married.

Marie Christine
Full name	Marie Christine de Pardaillan de Gondrin
Born	17 November 1663
Died	1675 (aged 11–12)
Noble family	Pardaillan de Gondrin
Father	Louis Henri de Pardaillan de Gondrin
Mother	Françoise de Rochechouart de Mortemart

Biography

Marie Christine was born in Paris^[1] to Louis Henri de Pardaillan de Gondrin, marquis de Montespan and his wife of nine months Françoise de Rochechouart de Mortemart. She was the older of two children born to the couple and had numerous half brothers and sisters as a result of her mother's affair with Louis XIV of France.

When her father found out about the affair between the King and her mother, Montespan decided to take his children away to his country estate before raising a scandal at court, challenging the king one day at Saint-Germain-en-Laye and decorated his carriage with antlers (like horns, these were traditional symbols of the cuckolded husband).

He was promptly imprisoned in the For-l'Évêque, then exiled to his lands - taking young Marie Christine and the even younger Louis Antoine.

This did not stop his agitation, and he not only came to Paris nearly every year between 1670 and 1686 but also commanded an annual requiem mass to be sung for his wife during her lifetime.

Twelve-year-old Marie Christine died at the Château de Bonnefont, one of her father's castles in Gascony.^[2]

Ancestry

Ancestors of Marie Christine de Pardaillan de Gondrin

16. Hector de Pardaillan de Gondrin, Baron of Montespan 8. Antoine Arnaud de Pardaillan de Gondrin, Marquis of Antin 17. Jeanne d'Antin, Dame of Antin 4. Roger Hector de Pardaillan de Gondrin, Marquis of Antin 18. Jean de Saint-Lary, Baron of Termes 9. Paule de Saint-Lary 19. Anne de Villemur 2. Louis Henri de Pardaillan de Gondrin, Marquis of Monstespan 20. Sébastien Zamet 10. Jean Zamet, Baron of Murat 21. Madeleine Le Clerc du Tremblay 5. Marie Christine de Zamet de Murat 22. Jacques de Goth, Marquis of Rouillac 11. Jeanne de Goth, Dame of Rouillac 23. Hélène de Nogaret 1. Marie Christine de Pardaillan de Gondrin 24. René de Rochechouart, Seigneur de Mortemart 12. Gaspard de Rochechouart, Marquis of Mortemart 25. Jeanne de Saulx de Tavannes 6. Gabriel de Rochechouart, Duke of Mortemart 26. Charles, Count of Maure 13. Louise de Maure, Countess of Maure 27. Diane de Pérusse des Cars, Princess of Carency 3. Françoise-Athénaïs, Marchioness of Montespan 28. Pierre de Grandsaigne, Seigneur de La Flotte 14. Jean de Grandseigne, Marquis of Marsillac 29. Françoise Baillard 7. Diane de Grandseigne 30. François de La Béraudière, Seigneur of Villechèze 15. Catherine de La Béraudière, Lady of Villenon 31. Anne Adrienne Frotier

References and notes

1. Lisa Hilton, Athénaïs: The Life of Louis XIV's Mistress - the Real Queen of France, Little, Brown 2002, p.46
2. In the village of Montespan, in the Haute-Garonne department, in the Midi-Pyrénées Region of France. (French site) http://montespan31.blogspot.com/2008/05/39.html.