Lady of Les Aulneaux, in the Sarthe department of the Pays de la Loire, about 11 miles (18 kilometers) from Alençon in Basse-Normandie.
Hofdame and Dame du Palais at the court in Berlin. In 1691 she was made the Gouvernante of Friedrich Wilhelm von Preußen, and in 1712 the erste Pflegerin und Erzieherin of his son Friedrich der Große. She features prominently in Gustav Heinrich Gans zu Putlitz's drama Die Schlacht bei Mollwitz in Lustspiele, vol. 3 (1869), which opens at the Wohnung der Frau von Rocoulle in Berlin in April 1741. One of her lines regarding the king's mother reads, 'Seine Mutter war meine Jugendfreundin, War von der Colonie, Er gehört eigentlich zum Hause.' Marthe had a lengthy career with the Prussian royal family and appears frequently in their letters and memoirs. At the age of 82 she addressed this billet to Friedrich:
Gaudias est un bon soldat,
mais il hait le célibat.
Il voudrait se marier.
Il vient vous prier
De le lui accorder.
Il voudrait se marier
Pour vous faire un grenadier.
Born into a minor noble family she was the elder daughter and co-heiress of Jean Duval, lord of Les Aulneaux, a greffier in the bureau of finance at Alençon, by his wife Marthe Rouïllon, a marchande of Alençon lace.
A descendant of François II de Bretagne (1433-1488) by his mistress Antoinette de Maignelais (d. 1471), Marthe's first husband and the father of her children was lieutenant-colonel Isaïe Dumas, lord of Montbail [whose paternal grandfather was chevalier Isaïe Du Matz de Montmartin, lord of Le Puy-Papin, and whose maternal grandfather was écuyer Jean Rogier, lord of Irais], by whom she was the mother of Marthe (1678-1752), Isaïe (1679-1720), Louis (1681-1744), Benjamin (1683-c.1748), Elisabeth (b. 1685, wife of Jean-François Le Hayer, lord of Boligny, Lieutenant-Général d'Épée at the Bailiwick of Alençon), and Guillaume (c.1687-1738). Shortly after the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes (1685) she and her husband are recorded as having fled to England with some of their children. Isaïe died shortly thereafter, apparently in England, leaving his small band of exiles in impoverished circumstances, prompting Marthe and her two elder children to seek refuge at the Elector's palace in Berlin, where her sister-in-law Marguerite Françoise du Matz de Montmartin (c.1646-1732), lady of Puy-Papin, was already a Dame du Palais. There Marthe married for a second time to Jacques Pelet de Rocoulle (c.1652-1698), a mousquetaire captain.
Her funeral was held at 9 o'clock in the morning on Oct. 5, 1741 in the Dorotheenstädtische Kirche at Berlin where she was interred.
Hofdame and Dame du Palais at the court in Berlin. In 1691 she was made the Gouvernante of Friedrich Wilhelm von Preußen, and in 1712 the erste Pflegerin und Erzieherin of his son Friedrich der Große. She features prominently in Gustav Heinrich Gans zu Putlitz's drama Die Schlacht bei Mollwitz in Lustspiele, vol. 3 (1869), which opens at the Wohnung der Frau von Rocoulle in Berlin in April 1741. One of her lines regarding the king's mother reads, 'Seine Mutter war meine Jugendfreundin, War von der Colonie, Er gehört eigentlich zum Hause.' Marthe had a lengthy career with the Prussian royal family and appears frequently in their letters and memoirs. At the age of 82 she addressed this billet to Friedrich:
Gaudias est un bon soldat,
mais il hait le célibat.
Il voudrait se marier.
Il vient vous prier
De le lui accorder.
Il voudrait se marier
Pour vous faire un grenadier.
Born into a minor noble family she was the elder daughter and co-heiress of Jean Duval, lord of Les Aulneaux, a greffier in the bureau of finance at Alençon, by his wife Marthe Rouïllon, a marchande of Alençon lace.
A descendant of François II de Bretagne (1433-1488) by his mistress Antoinette de Maignelais (d. 1471), Marthe's first husband and the father of her children was lieutenant-colonel Isaïe Dumas, lord of Montbail [whose paternal grandfather was chevalier Isaïe Du Matz de Montmartin, lord of Le Puy-Papin, and whose maternal grandfather was écuyer Jean Rogier, lord of Irais], by whom she was the mother of Marthe (1678-1752), Isaïe (1679-1720), Louis (1681-1744), Benjamin (1683-c.1748), Elisabeth (b. 1685, wife of Jean-François Le Hayer, lord of Boligny, Lieutenant-Général d'Épée at the Bailiwick of Alençon), and Guillaume (c.1687-1738). Shortly after the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes (1685) she and her husband are recorded as having fled to England with some of their children. Isaïe died shortly thereafter, apparently in England, leaving his small band of exiles in impoverished circumstances, prompting Marthe and her two elder children to seek refuge at the Elector's palace in Berlin, where her sister-in-law Marguerite Françoise du Matz de Montmartin (c.1646-1732), lady of Puy-Papin, was already a Dame du Palais. There Marthe married for a second time to Jacques Pelet de Rocoulle (c.1652-1698), a mousquetaire captain.
Her funeral was held at 9 o'clock in the morning on Oct. 5, 1741 in the Dorotheenstädtische Kirche at Berlin where she was interred.
Lady of Les Aulneaux, in the Sarthe department of the Pays de la Loire, about 11 miles (18 kilometers) from Alençon in Basse-Normandie.
Hofdame and Dame du Palais at the court in Berlin. In 1691 she was made the Gouvernante of Friedrich Wilhelm von Preußen, and in 1712 the erste Pflegerin und Erzieherin of his son Friedrich der Große. She features prominently in Gustav Heinrich Gans zu Putlitz's drama Die Schlacht bei Mollwitz in Lustspiele, vol. 3 (1869), which opens at the Wohnung der Frau von Rocoulle in Berlin in April 1741. One of her lines regarding the king's mother reads, 'Seine Mutter war meine Jugendfreundin, War von der Colonie, Er gehört eigentlich zum Hause.' Marthe had a lengthy career with the Prussian royal family and appears frequently in their letters and memoirs. At the age of 82 she addressed this billet to Friedrich:
Gaudias est un bon soldat,
mais il hait le célibat.
Il voudrait se marier.
Il vient vous prier
De le lui accorder.
Il voudrait se marier
Pour vous faire un grenadier.
Born into a minor noble family she was the elder daughter and co-heiress of Jean Duval, lord of Les Aulneaux, a greffier in the bureau of finance at Alençon, by his wife Marthe Rouïllon, a marchande of Alençon lace.
A descendant of François II de Bretagne (1433-1488) by his mistress Antoinette de Maignelais (d. 1471), Marthe's first husband and the father of her children was lieutenant-colonel Isaïe Dumas, lord of Montbail [whose paternal grandfather was chevalier Isaïe Du Matz de Montmartin, lord of Le Puy-Papin, and whose maternal grandfather was écuyer Jean Rogier, lord of Irais], by whom she was the mother of Marthe (1678-1752), Isaïe (1679-1720), Louis (1681-1744), Benjamin (1683-c.1748), Elisabeth (b. 1685, wife of Jean-François Le Hayer, lord of Boligny, Lieutenant-Général d'Épée at the Bailiwick of Alençon), and Guillaume (c.1687-1738). Shortly after the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes (1685) she and her husband are recorded as having fled to England with some of their children. Isaïe died shortly thereafter, apparently in England, leaving his small band of exiles in impoverished circumstances, prompting Marthe and her two elder children to seek refuge at the Elector's palace in Berlin, where her sister-in-law Marguerite Françoise du Matz de Montmartin (c.1646-1732), lady of Puy-Papin, was already a Dame du Palais. There Marthe married for a second time to Jacques Pelet de Rocoulle (c.1652-1698), a mousquetaire captain.
Her funeral was held at 9 o'clock in the morning on Oct. 5, 1741 in the Dorotheenstädtische Kirche at Berlin where she was interred.
Hofdame and Dame du Palais at the court in Berlin. In 1691 she was made the Gouvernante of Friedrich Wilhelm von Preußen, and in 1712 the erste Pflegerin und Erzieherin of his son Friedrich der Große. She features prominently in Gustav Heinrich Gans zu Putlitz's drama Die Schlacht bei Mollwitz in Lustspiele, vol. 3 (1869), which opens at the Wohnung der Frau von Rocoulle in Berlin in April 1741. One of her lines regarding the king's mother reads, 'Seine Mutter war meine Jugendfreundin, War von der Colonie, Er gehört eigentlich zum Hause.' Marthe had a lengthy career with the Prussian royal family and appears frequently in their letters and memoirs. At the age of 82 she addressed this billet to Friedrich:
Gaudias est un bon soldat,
mais il hait le célibat.
Il voudrait se marier.
Il vient vous prier
De le lui accorder.
Il voudrait se marier
Pour vous faire un grenadier.
Born into a minor noble family she was the elder daughter and co-heiress of Jean Duval, lord of Les Aulneaux, a greffier in the bureau of finance at Alençon, by his wife Marthe Rouïllon, a marchande of Alençon lace.
A descendant of François II de Bretagne (1433-1488) by his mistress Antoinette de Maignelais (d. 1471), Marthe's first husband and the father of her children was lieutenant-colonel Isaïe Dumas, lord of Montbail [whose paternal grandfather was chevalier Isaïe Du Matz de Montmartin, lord of Le Puy-Papin, and whose maternal grandfather was écuyer Jean Rogier, lord of Irais], by whom she was the mother of Marthe (1678-1752), Isaïe (1679-1720), Louis (1681-1744), Benjamin (1683-c.1748), Elisabeth (b. 1685, wife of Jean-François Le Hayer, lord of Boligny, Lieutenant-Général d'Épée at the Bailiwick of Alençon), and Guillaume (c.1687-1738). Shortly after the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes (1685) she and her husband are recorded as having fled to England with some of their children. Isaïe died shortly thereafter, apparently in England, leaving his small band of exiles in impoverished circumstances, prompting Marthe and her two elder children to seek refuge at the Elector's palace in Berlin, where her sister-in-law Marguerite Françoise du Matz de Montmartin (c.1646-1732), lady of Puy-Papin, was already a Dame du Palais. There Marthe married for a second time to Jacques Pelet de Rocoulle (c.1652-1698), a mousquetaire captain.
Her funeral was held at 9 o'clock in the morning on Oct. 5, 1741 in the Dorotheenstädtische Kirche at Berlin where she was interred.
Gravesite Details
Buried 9 A.M., October 5, 1741
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