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# Death of Agnès Sorel in 1450 and the Arrest of Jacques Cœur, Accused of Poisoning Her
- URL: https://theparnassian.com/en/vetotden-9-fevralia-1450-goda-agnes-sorel-umerla-ot-rodilnoi-infektsii/
- Published: 2017-02-09T12:28:40.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-02T19:05:30.000Z
- Author: Alexandr Radayev
- Tags: Monarchies, Mores, People

On 9 February 1450 Agnès Sorel died of puerperal infection. But a rumour was put about at once that she had been poisoned, and the poisoner was named as Jacques Cœur. Which is odd, since Agnès was the patroness of the royal financier: she secured him good commissions and shielded him from the attacks of his debtors.

At any rate, after her death Cœur's influential but impecunious associates lost no time in banding together and persuading the king to arrest the rich man. His property was confiscated, and Jacques himself was packed off to the back of beyond, where he died. The king, in fact, was himself in Cœur's debt, but all debts were promptly forgotten.

In the end, in our own day, mercury was indeed found in Agnès's remains, and it could well have caused her death. But the case, so to speak, was not sent back for further investigation.