Filippa Duci

Filippa Duci, dame de Couy or Filippa Ducci, dame de Couy (French: Philippe Desducs; 1520, Moncalieri, Piedmont – before October 1586, near Tours),[1] was a French (originally Italian) courtesan.

[2] Her father was Gian Antonio Duci, member of a minor Italian noble family.

[2] This proved that Henry was not sterile;[8] he had been married to Catherine de Médici, yet had still not produced an heir due to urological problems.

[11] In 1541, Francis I of France granted Duci 400 livres tournois a year for life in an Ordinaire de Touraine and allowed her to retire to a convent.

[12] She married the Italian gentleman and privy councillor Jean Bernardin de Saint-Severin in 1546.