A Cyclopaedia of Female Biography/Rohan, Frances de, Lady de la Garnache
ROHAN, FRANCES DE, LADY DE LA GARNACHE,
Was daughter to Renatus de Rohan and Isabella d'Albret, daughter of John d'Albret, King of Navarre, and was consequently cousin-german to Joan d'Albret, mother to Henry the Fourth. She was betrothed to the Duke de Nemours, by whom she had a son; but he becoming tired of her, obtained from the pope a dissolation of his engagement, as the Lady de Rohan had declared herself a Protestant, and married the widow of the Duke of Guise. The Lady de la Garnache, or the Duchess de Londonnois, as she was sometimes called, maintained herself dexterously in her estate during the civil wan.