Marguerite Courtin, Madame de Vantelet[1] (died after 1647), was a French aristocrat and courtier in service of Queen Henrietta Maria.
[9] The Queen's attachment to her was so strong that she survived the discovery of thirty-four letters in her own hand with her signature, found among the papers of Châteauneuf, more than implicating her in his plot against Cardinal Richelieu.
This office is displeasing to their Majesties, and so the ambassador is beginning to be looked at askance, without any hope of being able to obtain what he asks, the king being unwilling, as Poygni was told, to order his household for the satisfaction of others.
Madame de Vantelet on this voyage to safety, was amongst those mistaken as pirates by the local populace when they finally arrived in France:Henrietta Maria had not in fact landed in Brest, as the sea captain had reported, but twenty-five kilometres away at L’Aber Ildut.
Her party included Henry Jermyn, the dwarf Jeffrey Hudson, Susan, the Countess of Denbigh, the Duchess of Richmond, Father Phillip, and Monsieur and Madame Vantelet, who had been with her since childhood.
They made strange pirates, but the coast was regularly raided and the whole area was in arms, so they carefully raised a staff with a handkerchief on it.
A Seigneur Coignet, another one of Henrietta Maria's gentleman ushers, also accompanied the Queen in 1644 on her perilous journey back to France.
James or Jacquet Coignet was from an old Auxerre family whose presence at court dated back to the time of Catherine de Médici.
Both the Madame de Vantelets' signatures have survived on the marriage contract from 1647, signed February 20 in Paris where they celebrated the wedding together with the Queen of England, Scotland, and Ireland and the future King Charles II.
Henrietta Maria Coignet, Madame de Vantelet, wife of the Sieur Vantelet, mentioned in the long marriage contract of Louis Belin, King's Counselor and auditor in his Chamber of Accounts, and Henriette Marie de Plancy, daughter of the Queen's apothecary, in 1655 when they all resided in France.
In her testament she gives the Queen of England a gift of a small enamelled gold bracelet with a clasp of 17 diamonds and begs her to transfer to her children and grandchildren the affection that she has always shown her.
His sister Françoise de Lux married Charles du Bernetz (d. before 1647/8[13]), seigneur des Arpentis, butler his royal highness.
[25][13][26] Jacques le Lux, sieur de Vantelet was dead before the signing of his son's marriage contract on 20 February 1647/8, when Marguerite is his veuve; widow.