Portrait of Louise of Lorraine (1554–1601)

Louis of Lorraine (Louise de Lorraine-Vaudémont, 1554–1601) married in 1575, two days after her coronation, King Henry III of France of Valois, previously ruling in Poland as Henry Valois (1573–1574). After the death of her husband at the hands of a monk assassin in 1589, the childless withdrew from the court and settled in her ancestral castle, the rooms of which she had ordered to cover with black cloth.