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Jacqueline Le Voyer, Dame d'Escoman, ancestress of Anne-Elisabeth de Tarragon
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Apr 22, 2018, 3:08:46 PM4/22/18
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Anne-Elisabeth De Tarragon, 17th century immigrant to New France and
a King's Daughter, was recognized not too long ago as a gateway ancestor
to the French nobility. See Denis Beauregard's QRD30 page:
http://www.francogene.com/gfna/gfna/998/qrd30.htm
Perusing her family tree at Roland De Tarragon's site
https://gw.geneanet.org/roland41100?lang=en&pz=roland+xiiic&nz=de+tarragon&ocz=0&m=A&p=anne+elisabeth&n=de+tarragon&siblings=on¬es=on&t=T&v=6&image=on&marriage=on&full=on
one notices that her direct maternal line ends fairly quickly
with her great-grandmother Jacqueline Le Vayer. This woman,
referred to as the Dame D'Escoman after the estate of her
husband, Isaac de Varenne, was actually one of the most enigmatic
characters in French history. After the assassination of King
Henry IV in May 1610 by Ravaillac, she accosted his widowed queen
claiming to know who put him up to the murder: the Duc d'Epernon
and Henriette d'Entragues, both Catholic partisans in the on-going
religious struggles in France at the time. As an intimate member
of Henriette's household (possibly a wet nurse?), she claimed to have
become aware of the plot in its planning stages and to have
attempted to alert the royal family to the scheme before the
assassination, unsuccessfully. Her accusations created an uproar
at the time and were investigated by the Parlement, which, however,
found her guilty of slander and condemned her to life imprisonment
for her trouble, under which conditions she died a few years later.
Many commentators then and today feel that she was correct in her
charges, but France at that time did not want to hear them.
A quiet accepting of the situation was deemed better than re-escalating
the war between the Huguenots and the crown.
The question to this group is this: has anyone been able to figure
out who Jacqueline's parents were? No less an authority than Cardinal
Richelieu claimed in his Memoires that her surname was "Le Voyer"
and that she came from the village of Orphin, between Epernon and
Ablis, about 30 miles SW of the center of Paris:
https://books.google.com/books?id=nKINAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA163&lpg=PA163&dq=affaire+d%27ecoman+%27jacqueline+le+voyer%27&source=bl&ots=cHG1imUYzs&sig=WT7wwv8Dw1mtQuQgDD97ktbK-Dc&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiWu86pw87aAhUM74MKHao6CIQQ6AEILDAB#v=onepage&q=affaire%20d'ecoman%20'jacqueline%20le%20voyer'&f=false
The estate of Escoman or Ecoman, which her husband Isaac de Varenne
possessed, was located in the Loire valley about 30 miles west of
Orleans. Both the "Le Voyer" and "Le Vayer" families appear in Hubert's
Genealogies Orleanaise which are otherwise so useful in tracing
Anne DeTarragon's tree, but there is no link to Jacqueline.
Could she be related to Francois de La Mothe le Vayer/Voyer?
--David
a King's Daughter, was recognized not too long ago as a gateway ancestor
to the French nobility. See Denis Beauregard's QRD30 page:
http://www.francogene.com/gfna/gfna/998/qrd30.htm
Perusing her family tree at Roland De Tarragon's site
https://gw.geneanet.org/roland41100?lang=en&pz=roland+xiiic&nz=de+tarragon&ocz=0&m=A&p=anne+elisabeth&n=de+tarragon&siblings=on¬es=on&t=T&v=6&image=on&marriage=on&full=on
one notices that her direct maternal line ends fairly quickly
with her great-grandmother Jacqueline Le Vayer. This woman,
referred to as the Dame D'Escoman after the estate of her
husband, Isaac de Varenne, was actually one of the most enigmatic
characters in French history. After the assassination of King
Henry IV in May 1610 by Ravaillac, she accosted his widowed queen
claiming to know who put him up to the murder: the Duc d'Epernon
and Henriette d'Entragues, both Catholic partisans in the on-going
religious struggles in France at the time. As an intimate member
of Henriette's household (possibly a wet nurse?), she claimed to have
become aware of the plot in its planning stages and to have
attempted to alert the royal family to the scheme before the
assassination, unsuccessfully. Her accusations created an uproar
at the time and were investigated by the Parlement, which, however,
found her guilty of slander and condemned her to life imprisonment
for her trouble, under which conditions she died a few years later.
Many commentators then and today feel that she was correct in her
charges, but France at that time did not want to hear them.
A quiet accepting of the situation was deemed better than re-escalating
the war between the Huguenots and the crown.
The question to this group is this: has anyone been able to figure
out who Jacqueline's parents were? No less an authority than Cardinal
Richelieu claimed in his Memoires that her surname was "Le Voyer"
and that she came from the village of Orphin, between Epernon and
Ablis, about 30 miles SW of the center of Paris:
https://books.google.com/books?id=nKINAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA163&lpg=PA163&dq=affaire+d%27ecoman+%27jacqueline+le+voyer%27&source=bl&ots=cHG1imUYzs&sig=WT7wwv8Dw1mtQuQgDD97ktbK-Dc&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiWu86pw87aAhUM74MKHao6CIQQ6AEILDAB#v=onepage&q=affaire%20d'ecoman%20'jacqueline%20le%20voyer'&f=false
The estate of Escoman or Ecoman, which her husband Isaac de Varenne
possessed, was located in the Loire valley about 30 miles west of
Orleans. Both the "Le Voyer" and "Le Vayer" families appear in Hubert's
Genealogies Orleanaise which are otherwise so useful in tracing
Anne DeTarragon's tree, but there is no link to Jacqueline.
Could she be related to Francois de La Mothe le Vayer/Voyer?
--David
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