Joseph Boniface de La Môle was a Catholic nobleman, and the son of Jacques Boniface, seigneur de la Môle et de Colobrières, of Marseille. La Môle was the Provençal lover of Marguerite de Valois, among others, during the early part of her marriage to Henry of Navarre, the future king of France. He served François, Duke of Anjou and Alençon, Marguerite's brother and youngest son of King Henri II of France and Catherine de' Medici.

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  • Joseph Boniface de La Môle was a Catholic nobleman, and the son of Jacques Boniface, seigneur de la Môle et de Colobrières, of Marseille. La Môle was the Provençal lover of Marguerite de Valois, among others, during the early part of her marriage to Henry of Navarre, the future king of France. He served François, Duke of Anjou and Alençon, Marguerite's brother and youngest son of King Henri II of France and Catherine de' Medici. He represented the Duc d’Alençon during marriage negotiations with Queen Elizabeth I of England in 1572. In 1574 he was implicated in a Malcontent conspiracy against the reigning king, Charles IX, who was gravely ill, supported by the duke of Alençon. He was accused of making an attempt on the king's life when a wax figurine pricked with needles, which he had obtained from the astrologer Cosimo Ruggieri, was found in his possession. After being subjected to questioning and torture, he was condemned to death. He was quartered and beheaded at the Place de Grève in Paris with his co-conspiritor, Annibal de Coconnas. It has been rumoured that Marguerite embalmed la Môle's head and kept it in a jewelled casket.
  • Joseph Boniface seigneur de la Môle est le fils de Jacques Boniface, seigneur de la Môle et de Colobrières, originaire de la ville de Marseille. Il fut impliqué en 1574 dans la conjuration des Malcontents destinée à écarter du pouvoir Charles IX, gravement malade au château de Vincennes, au profit de son frère François, duc d'Alençon et au détriment de son autre frère Henri III. Accusé d'avoir attenté à la vie de Charles IX en détenant une figurine de cire piquée d'aiguilles, fournie par l'astrologue Côme Ruggieri, il fut soumis à la question, condamné à mort et exécuté en place Saint-Jean de Grève à Paris avec son co-accusé Annibal de Coconas.
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  • Joseph Boniface de La Môle was a Catholic nobleman, and the son of Jacques Boniface, seigneur de la Môle et de Colobrières, of Marseille. La Môle was the Provençal lover of Marguerite de Valois, among others, during the early part of her marriage to Henry of Navarre, the future king of France. He served François, Duke of Anjou and Alençon, Marguerite's brother and youngest son of King Henri II of France and Catherine de' Medici.
  • Joseph Boniface seigneur de la Môle est le fils de Jacques Boniface, seigneur de la Môle et de Colobrières, originaire de la ville de Marseille. Il fut impliqué en 1574 dans la conjuration des Malcontents destinée à écarter du pouvoir Charles IX, gravement malade au château de Vincennes, au profit de son frère François, duc d'Alençon et au détriment de son autre frère Henri III.
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