Pierre de Ronsard (11 September 1524 – December 1585) was a French

France

The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...

 poet

Poet

A poet is a person who writes poetry. A poet's work can be literal, meaning that his work is derived from a specific event, or metaphorical, meaning that his work can take on many meanings and forms. Poets have existed since antiquity, in nearly all languages, and have produced works that vary...

 and "prince of poets

Prince des poètes

Prince des poètes is an honorific and unofficial title given in France to many poets after the death of their predecessor.-List:*Pierre de Ronsard, born in 1524.*…*1885-1894 : Charles Marie René Leconte de Lisle, born in 1818....

" (as his own generation in France called him).
Pierre de Ronsard was born at the Manoir de la Possonnière, in the village of Couture-sur-Loir

Couture-sur-Loir

Couture-sur-Loir is a commune in the Loir-et-Cher department of central France.It is situated in the north west of the Loir-et-Cher département, to the west of Vendôme...

, Loir-et-Cher

Loir-et-Cher

Loir-et-Cher is a département in north-central France named after the rivers Loir and Cher.-History:Loir-et-Cher is one of the original 83 departments created during the French Revolution on 4 March 1790. It was created from parts of the former provinces of Orléanais and...

. Baudouin de Ronsard or Rossart was the founder of the French branch of the house, and made his mark in the early stages of the Hundred Years' War

Hundred Years' War

The Hundred Years' War was a series of separate wars waged from 1337 to 1453 by the House of Valois and the House of Plantagenet, also known as the House of Anjou, for the French throne, which had become vacant upon the extinction of the senior Capetian line of French kings...

. The poet's father was named Louis de Ronsard, and his mother was Jeanne de Chaudrier, of a family not only noble in itself but well connected.