Jean de Poitiers, Seigneur de Saint Vallier

Jean de Poitiers, Seigneur de Saint Vallier ( – 1529) was a French nobleman best known as the father of Diane de Poitiers, mistress of King Henry II of France.

Early life He was the son of Aymar de Poitiers, Marquis of Cotron, and Jeanne de La Tour d'Auvergne.

His maternal grandparents were Bertrand VI, Count of Auvergne and Louise de La Trémoille.

Personal life Poitiers married Jeanne de Batarnay, a daughter of Imbert de Batarnay and Georgette de Montchenu. Together, they lived at the Château de Saint-Vallier in Drôme and were the parents of:

Anne de Poitiers (1489–), who married Antoine II de Clermont, son of Louis, Baron and Viscount de Clermont-en-Dauphiné and Catherine Artaud de Montauban. Françoise de Poitiers (b. 1499), who married Antoine III de Clermont, 1st Count of Clermont-Tonnerre, son of Bernardin de Clermont Tonnerre and Françoise de Sassenage. Diane de Poitiers (1500–1566), who married Louis de Brézé, Seigneur d'Anet, a grandson of King Charles VII by his mistress Agnès Sorel, in 1515.

Poitiers died in 1529.