Catherine Colyear, suo jure Countess of Dorchester and Countess of Portmore, was an English noble and courtier. She was the mistress of King James II of England both before and after he came to the th
The Countess of Dorchester, painted by Sir Peter Lely, c. 1675.
Catherine Sedley (c. 1685)
Louise Renée de Penancoët de Kérouaille, Duchess of Portsmouth was a French mistress of King Charles II of England. She was also made Duchess of Aubigny in the peerage of France.
Catherine Sedley, Countess of Dorchester
…father, was in any way better than Catherine, who had broken the commandment against adultery. At the court of George I she met Charles II's mistress Louise de Kérouaille, Duchess of Portsmouth, and William III's mistress Elizabeth Hamilton, Countess of Orkney, and exclaimed "God! Who would have thought that we three whores should meet here…
Portrait by Sir Peter Lely, c. 1671
Chateau de Kérouaille, near Brest, Brittany, property of Louise's de Penancoët family; she was born there in 1649
Louise's father: Guillaume de Penancoët, Comte de Kérouaille (1615-1690)
A portrait of de Kérouaille with a young black girl presenting precious coral and pearls to her by Pierre Mignard