François de Vendôme, Vidame de Chartres, was a successful soldier and glamorous courtier who figures in accounts of the brilliant but decadent French court of the 1550s.
Drawing with colour by François Clouet, about 1550
The medieval Château de la Ferté Vidame, built by the Vendômes
Drawing with colour, workshop of François Clouet, about 1550
Drawing with colour, workshop of François Clouet, c. 1540s
Jean de Ferrières
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Jean de Ferrières, Vidame de Chartres, Seigneur de Maligny, was an influential Huguenot in the French Wars of Religion in the 16th century. He died a prisoner in a galley, unable to pay his ransom, an
François de Vendôme, vidame de Chartres
…or just after his release has been the subject of discussion, as the evidence is contradictory. When Vendôme died without issue the title passed to Jean de Ferrières (1520–1586), a leading Huguenot politician and military commander in the French Wars of Religion, who was forced to spend periods in exile in England…
Depiction of Peace of Amboise, 1563
De Ferrières' associate in the French Wars of Religion, the Prince de Condé