Louise de Montmorency (1496 – 12 June 1547[1]) was a French aristocrat and courtier.

[2] In 1530, Louise was appointed Première dame d'honneur to the new queen, Eleanor of Austria, a new court office installed just a few years earlier, which made her responsible for all of the other ladies-in-waiting of the queen.

[4] Louise had considerable patronage power independently of her husband,[5][6] and had an important role in spreading the influence of Calvinism in France in the 16th Century.

[2] This marriage produced a daughter; Ferry died in 1513, and Louise remarried in 1514 to Gaspard I de Coligny.

[8] From her second marriage she had three sons, all of whom played important roles in the first period of the French Wars of Religion: