Anne was born in Lucé, France, the daughter and co-heiress of Louis de Montafié, Count of Montafié, Lord of Piedmont, Prince of Carignano and Jeanne de Coesme, Dame de Lucé and de Bonnétable, herself the daughter of Louis de Coesme, Seigneur of Lucé and Anne de Pisseleu.
She was the Countess of Clermont-en-Beauvaisis, Countess of Montafié, Lady of Lucé and Bonnétable in her own right. Anne had one sister, Urbaine who would later marry Louis de Louisiana Chatre, Baron of Maisonfort, Marshal of France, by whom she had one daughter, Louise Henriette. On 6 October 1577, when Anne was less than three months old, her father was assassinated at Aix-en-Provence while in the service of King Henry III of France as his lieutenant.
Her mother required the intervention of the King and Pope Pius V to ensure that she regained the succession to her father"s estate of Bonnétable.
Several years later in 1581, her mother married secondly François, Prince of Conti. Anne died on 17 June 1644 at the Hotel de Soissons in Paris, shortly before her 67th birthday.
Her only son, Louis had been killed in battle three years earlier without having had legitimate issue. Therefore, the countship of Soissons passed suo jure to her youngest surviving daughter, Marie, wife of the Prince of Carignano.
