Amalie Armistead

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Amalie Armistead
Amalie.jpg
Portrayed by Fanny Ardant
Full Name Amalie Elizabeth Armistead
Associated Noble House(s) Not applicable
Date of Birth 1767
Father Pascal Marchal
Father's Rank Gentry
Mother Sophie Marchal (née Pelletier)
Mother's Rank Gentry
Town Residence Vienna
Year of Debut Not applicable
Dowry Not applicable
Year of Marriage 1783
Spouse Maximilien Armistead (d. 1792)
Spouse's Rank Banker
Issue Yves Armistead, Amandine Armistead

Amalie Marchal was only 16 when she married the wealthy, charming Maximilien Armistead, a family friend two decades her senior. She discovered too late that her new husband was a violent brute and spent the years of her marriage protecting their two children, Yves Armistead and Amandine Armistead, from his rages. When Maximilien died in a shooting accident in 1792, Amalie was left as a very rich, very merry widow. She married the man who fired the fatal shot just twelve months later and from that day to this, nothing is too much trouble for her adored children.

She is currently in Vienna with Amandine, pursuing her daughter's operatic career.