Élisabeth Charlotte d'Orléans | |||||
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Duchess of Lorraine | |||||
Reign | 13 October 1698 – 27 March 1729 | ||||
Princess of Commercy | |||||
Reign | 1737 – 23 December 1744 | ||||
Born |
Château de Saint-Cloud, France |
13 September 1676||||
Died | 23 December 1744 Château de Commercy, France |
(aged 68)||||
Burial | Église Saint-François-des-Cordeliers, Nancy, France | ||||
Spouse | Leopold, Duke of Lorraine | ||||
Issue Detail |
Léopold Clément, Hereditary Prince of Lorraine Francis I, Holy Roman Emperor Elisabeth Therese, Queen of Sardinia Charles Alexander, Governor of the Austrian Netherlands Anne Charlotte, Abbess of Essen |
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House |
House of Lorraine (by marriage) House of Orléans (by birth) |
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Father | Philippe of France, Duke of Orléans | ||||
Mother | Elizabeth Charlotte of the Palatinate |
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Élisabeth Charlotte d'Orléans |
Élisabeth Charlotte d'Orléans (13 September 1676 – 23 December 1744) was a French petite-fille de France and by marriage to Leopold, Duke of Lorraine, duchess and later regent of Lorraine and Bar. She was also suo jure Princess of Commercy. Among her children was Francis I, Holy Roman Emperor, a co-founder of the House of Habsburg-Lorraine.
Élisabeth Charlotte was born at the Château de Saint-Cloud outside Paris. She was the daughter of Philippe I, Duke of Orléans, Monsieur, and of his second wife, Elizabeth Charlotte of the Palatinate, Madame, the daughter of Charles I Louis, Elector Palatine. Her father was the only sibling of King Louis XIV of France. As a petite-fille de France, she was entitled to have the style of Her Royal Highness, as well as the right to an armchair in the presence of the King. At birth, she was given the honorary style Mademoiselle de Chartres, taken from the name of one of her father's appanages. After the marriage of her two older half-sisters, Marie Louise and Anne Marie born of the first marriage of their father to Henrietta Anne of England, she was known as Madame Royale, according to her status as the highest-ranking unmarried princess in France.