Salomon de Brosse
Salomon de Brosse
( 1571 – 9 December 1626) was an influential early 17th- century French architect, a major influence on François Mansart.
Salomon was born in Verneuil- en- Halatte, Oise, into a prominent Huguenot family, the grandson through his mother of the designer Jacques I Androuet du Cerceau and the son of the architect Jean de Brosse.
He was established in practice in Paris in 1598 and was promoted to court architect in 1608.
De Brosse greatly influenced the sober and classicizing direction that French Baroque architecture was to take, especially in designing his most prominent commission, the Luxembourg Palace, Paris( 1615- 1624), for Marie de' Medici, whose patronage had been extended to his uncle.
Salomon de Brosse simplified the crowded compositions of his Androuet du Cerceau heritage and contemporary practice, ranging the U- shaped block round an entrance court, as Carlo Maderno was doing at Palazzo Barberini, Rome, about the same time.
The impetus for the plan is often traced to Palazzo Pitti, Florence, where the Medici queen had spent her youth, but the formal plan of Anet could also be adduced.
He clad the building wholly in stone, avoiding the lively contrast of brick and stone that was the more familiar idiom.
Though de Brosse was forced to relinquish his post on 24 March 1624, construction of the Luxembourg proceeded according to his plan and elevations; extensions made in the nineteenth century have not obscured his external elements.
Other buildings that he designed include: De Brosse died, aged 55, in Paris.
Claudine de Brosse
Claudine de Brosse (1450–1513), was a Duchess Consort of Savoy; married in 1485 to Philip II, Duke of Savoy.
She was a daughter of Jean II de Brosse and Nicole de Châtillon.
Issue:
Jean IV de Rieux
Jean IV de Rieux( June 27, 1447 – February 9, 1518), was a Breton noble and Marshal.
He was the son of Jean III de Rieux and Béatrice de Rohan- Montauban( 1385 – 1414).
He ruled Brittany as regent of Anne of Brittany.
He is best known for being the commander of the Breton army against King Charles VIII of France, which ended in a crushing defeat at the Battle of Saint- Aubin- du- Cormier( 1488).
He was also Count of Aumale and Count of Harcourt.
He married Isabelle de Brosse( died 1527), daughter of Jean III de Brosse, Comte de Penthièvre.
Renée de Rieux, La Belle Châteauneuf, was one of his descendants.
René de Brosse
René de Brosse, also René de Bretagne was the elder son of Jean III de Brosse and Louise de Laval.
He was killed at the Battle of Pavia on 24 February 1525.
Jean II de Brosse
Jean II de Brosse, also Jehan II de Brosse (1432 – 6 August 1482), was the elder son of Marshal of France Jean I de Brosse.
He would become chamberlain of the king of France in 1449.
He married Nicole, Countess of Penthièvre, daughter of Charles, Seigneur d'Avaugour.
Her father was the third son of John I, Count of Penthièvre, son of Joan, Duchess of Brittany and Charles of Blois.
Nicole later brought him, through inheritance in 1479, the County of Penthièvre in the Duchy of Brittany.
Jehan II de Brosse is known to have rebuilt the donjon in Fouras in 1480–1490.
Philip, Duke of Nemours
Philip of Savoy, Duke of Nemours( 149025 November 1533) was a French nobleman.
He was a son of Philip II, Duke of Savoy, and his second wife Claudine de Brosse.
He was a half- brother of Louise of Savoy, the mother of Francis I of France.
He was the founder of the Nemours branch of the house of Savoy which eventually settled in France.
Originally destined for the priesthood, he was given the bishopric of Geneva at the age of five, but resigned it in 1510, when he was made count of Genevois.
He served under Louis XII, with whom he was present at the battle of Agnadello( 1509), under the emperor Charles V in 1520, and finally under his nephew, Francis I.
In 1528 Francis gave him the duchy of Nemours and married him to Charlotte of Orleans, a daughter of Louis d' Orléans, Duke of Longueville.
They had two children:
Sébastien, Duke of Penthièvre
Sebastien de Luxembourg, duke of Penthièvre( 1530- 1569) was vicount of Martigues, count and later duke of Penthièvre( 1566 – 1569) and a peer of France.
He was the son of François de Luxembourg and Charlotte de Brosse, daughter of René de Brosse.
Nephew of Jean de Brosse, duc d'Étampes, he was allowed to inherit his uncle's taken estates and was subsequently created the 1st Duke of Penthièvre.
He participated at the Siege of Leith in 1560, but was killed on November 19 1569 at the Siege of Saint- Jean- d'Angely .<br>
His only daughter and heiress Marie de Luxembourg married Philippe- Emmanuel de Lorraine, duc de Mercœur, the rebel in Brittany.
Jean III de Brosse
Jean III de Brosse( d. 1502) was Count of Penthièvre from 1480 until his death.
He was the elder son of Jean II de Brosse and Nicole, Countess of Penthièvre.
On 15 May 1468, he married Louise de Laval, daughter of Guy XIV de Laval and Isabelle of Brittany.
They had one son, René de Brosse, and four daughters.
Jean de Brosse
Jean de Brosse( 1375 – 1433), Lord of Boussac, Sainte- Sévère and Huriel, was a councillor and chamberlain to Charles VII of France; he was made a Marshal of France in 1426.
Jean IV de Brosse
Jean IV de Brosse( 1505 in Lamballe – 1564) was the son of René de Brosse and Jeanne de Commines( daughter of Philippe de Commines).
After the death of his father at the Battle of Pavia, he succeeded him as Count of Penthièvre.
In 1533, he married Anne de Pisseleu d' Heilly, the mistress of Francis I of France, and was shortly thereafter created Count, then Duke of Étampes.
However, he was greatly impoverished by the expenditures necessary to maintain their position at court.
With the death of Francis I, the antipathy of Diane de Poitiers compelled Jean to retreat to Brittany, where he had been appointed governor in 1543; she also obtained his duchy of Étampes.
After the death of Henry II of France and the fall of Diane, he was able to regain the duchy, but died not long thereafter.

Question: Which country Claudine De Brosse's father is from?
Answer: France