 Fouquet also donated to the ecclesiastical abbeys of Ainay (near Lyon), Saint-Benoit-sur-Loire, Saint-Nicolas d'Angers, Saint-Loup de Troyes, and the Esvière priory near Angers.His first marriage to Catherine Foussard, who died in 1605, brought him the lands of La Varenne as her dowry.Guillaume Fouquet had several sons.