In this post I will focus on a woman named Catherine De Parthenay. She lived from 1554 - 1631. Catherine was froma well-established Protestant family in Poitou. She was a wealthy heiress, whose second husband was Rene Vicomte de Rohan, with whom she had five children. One of these became Henri II, the future Duc de Rohan, who became the leader of the Huguenots after the death of Henry IV in 1610. She was a poet, a playwrigt and a mathematician.
Catherine was proud to belong to this noble family and brought up her children in the Protestant faith - indeed, in Brittany her chateau was a stronghold of the Reformed faith.
At the time of the siege of La Rochelle, she remained with her daughter amongst other Protestants trapped within the city. She managed to survive, together with five thousand others, but was later locked up in the prison of Niort. As a result of the treaty of Ales in 1629 she was released and died in the Parc de Soubise in 1631.
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