Geneviève Petau de Maulette
Madame Geneviève Petau de Maulette, Lady Glenluce (c. 1563 – 1643) was a French noblewoman, tutor to Elizabeth of Bohemia, author and the second wife of John Gordon, D.D., Dean of Salisbury and Lord Glenluce and Longormes.
Geneviève Petau was born in Brittany, France, the daughter of the Lord de Maulette, first president of the parliament in Brittany. She was raised a Protestant, and in 1594 she married Dr. John Gordon, a prominent Scottish reverend who was Gentleman of the Bedchamber to the French king. She and her husband had one child, The Hon. Louise Gordon (1597 – 1680), who married Sir Robert Gordon of Gordonstoun, the writer of the Sutherland family history. Family tradition holds that Lady Glenluce served as the French instructor to the eldest daughter of King James I and Queen Anne of Denmark, Princess Elizabeth.[1]
She is remembered for her work in French entitled, Devoreux, Vertues Teares for the Losse of King Henry III of Fraunce, by a learned gentlewoman, Madame Geneviève Petau. The poem praises Henry III of France and an English nobleman, Walter Devereux. The work was translated into English in 1597 by Gervase Markham.[2]
References
- ^ Prescott, Anne Lake. "Mary Sidney's Antonius and the ambiguities of French history". The Free Library. Retrieved May 15, 2009.
- ^ Cox, Michael (editor). The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature. Oxford University Press, 2004. ISBN 0-19-860634-6
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