Catherine Le Voyer (1571-1657), was a French court official. Kleinman, Ruth: Anne of Austria. Queen of France. . Ohio State University Press (1985) She served as the ''

dame d'atour ''Dame d'atour'' () was an office at the royal court of France. It existed in nearly all French courts from the 16th-century onward. The ''dame d'honneur'' was selected from the members of the highest French nobility. They were ranked between th ...

''s to the queen of France,

Anne of Austria Anne of Austria (; ; born Ana María Mauricia; 22 September 1601 – 20 January 1666) was Queen of France from 1615 to 1643 by marriage to King Louis XIII. She was also Queen of Navarre until the kingdom's annexation into the French crown ...

in between 1630 and 1657. She has also been known as Madame de la Flotte och Madame de Hauterive. She was the daughter of Philibert Le Voyer, ''

Seigneur A seigneur () or lord is an originally feudal title in France before the Revolution, in New France and British North America until 1854, and in the Channel Islands to this day. The seigneur owned a seigneurie, seigneury, or lordship—a form of ...

'' of Lignerolles, and Anne de Rodulph, and married René du Bellay,

Baron Baron is a rank of nobility or title of honour, often Hereditary title, hereditary, in various European countries, either current or historical. The female equivalent is baroness. Typically, the title denotes an aristocrat who ranks higher than ...

of la Flotte-Hauterive. She was a lady-in-waiting to

Marie de' Medici Marie de' Medici (; ; 26 April 1575 – 3 July 1642) was Queen of France and Navarre as the second wife of King Henry IV. Marie served as regent of France between 1610 and 1617 during the minority of her son Louis XIII. Her mandate as rege ...

until Marie left France in 1630. In 1630, she was appointed to the office of dame d'atour in succession to Madeleine du Fargis. She was the grandmother of Marie de Hautefort, whom she introduced at court and who was appointed to be her deputy. She was a central figure in the French royal court and mentioned in contemporary memoirs.

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