Duke of Nemours
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Duke of Nemours was a title in the Peerage of France. The name refers to Nemours in the Île-de-France region of north-central France.
Image: Élisabeth de Bourbon (1614 1664), Dowager Duchess of Nemours
Image: 1705 Portrait of the widowed Marie d'Orléans, Duchess of Nemours by Hyacinthe Rigaud (Lausanne)
Image: (Narbonne) Portrait de Liselotte de Palatinat Pierre Mignard Musée des Beaux Arts de Narbonne
Louise of Savoy
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Louise of Savoy was a French noble and regent, Duchess suo jure of Auvergne and Bourbon, Duchess of Nemours and the mother of King Francis I and Marguerite of Navarre. She was politically active and served as the regent of France in 1515, in 1525–1526 and in 1529, during the absence of her son.
Louise of Savoy symbolically taking over the "rudder" in 1525, and requesting the help of Suleiman the Magnificent, here shown lying at her feet enturbanned