Jeanne d'Angoulême

[1] Antoinette served as the chatelaine of the Charles' chateaux, and became a lady-in-waiting and confidante to his young wife Louise of Savoy whom he married on 16 February 1488.

[2] When Charles died on 1 January 1496, Jeanne, her sisters, and her mother Antoinette were allowed to remain in the Angoulême household now presided over by Louise of Savoy, the widowed Countess.

In 1499, Louise moved the family from the chateau of Cognac to the court of King Louis XII, who was her father's cousin.

[3] On 24 March 1522, she was created suo jure Countess Bar-sur-Seine by her half-brother Francis, who had succeeded Louis as King in 1515.

Jeanne served as Première dame d'honneur to the queen of France, Eleanor of Austria, in 1535–1538.

Jeanne of Orléans, 16th-century limestone statue, from Petit-Clairvaux priory of Metz, kept in Musées de la Cour d'Or (Metz, Moselle, France)