[1] His paternal grandfather was Pierre de Brézé, noted for valour at Formigny, a grand steward of Normandy.

His home was the family seat, the Château d'Anet, which stood in a royal hunting preserve in the valley of the Eure.

For Diane, King Henry II rebuilt the old Château d'Anet, which became one of the first French Renaissance châteaus, and she would be entrusted with much of the management of royal court business.

[6] It has been expressly stated in an old Norman manuscript, that his bowels were interred at Anet, his heart in the abbey of Coulombs near his father, and his body carried to Notre Dame at Rouen and placed near that of his grandfather Pierre.

The tomb that his widow Diane erected for Louis in the cathedral of Rouen was one of the early projects of French Renaissance sculptor Jean Goujon.