Louis-Henri d'Aquin

Louis-Henri d'Aquin (; Ludovicus Henricus Aquinas) was born in 1602 in Avignon and died in December 1673 in Paris. He was the physician of Queen mothers of Louis XIII, Marie de' Medici, and of Louis XIV, Anne of Austria, then ordinary physician of Louis XIV from 1644. He was hebraist and gemstones broker.

He was appointed on 7 January 1631 as the Queen Mother Marie de' Medici's physician, then in November 1640 first physician and obtained a patent of arms from d'Hozier on 15 August 1645.

In 1650, he was among the four spagyric physicians or alchemists: Pierre Yvelin, Tobie Bloire, Louis-Henri d'Aquin and Antoine Vallot (fr). The latter was the King's first physician from 1652 to 1671.

On 12 March 1653, Louis-Henri was appointed as the King's ordinary physician and was finally ennobled by letters patent given to Saint-Germain in November 1669.

He had as children : Charles d'Aquin (born 20 February 1627 in Paris; † young) Antoine d'Aquin (° 1629 in Paris; † 17 May 1696 in Vichy) first physician of Louis XIV after Vallot whose niece he had married. Louis Thomas d'Aquin (born 1667 in Paris; died 7 May 1710 in Paris), priest, dean of the parish of Église Saint-Thomas-du-Louvre (fr) in Paris, bishop of Sées. Marie Marguerite d'Aquin, married on 10 August 1660 in Saint-Germain, "noble man Claude Dufresne, adviser and doctor to the King, son of the late Didier Du Fresne, bourgeois of Paris, and the late Marguerite Guillemain". Item excepta quaedam ex Talmudo et Ialcut in eundem librum. Interprete Ludovico Henrico Aquino. Sentetiae et prouerbia Rabbinorum. Ludouico Henrico Daquin interprete.