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Élisabeth Charlotte d'Orléans

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 (1676-09-13)13 September 1676
Château de Saint-Cloud, France
Died 23 December 1744(1744-12-23) (aged 68)
Château de Commercy, France
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
Full name
Élisabeth Charlotte d'Orléans
House House of Lorraine (by marriage)
House of Orléans (by birth)
Father Philippe of France, Duke of Orléans
Mother Elizabeth Charlotte of the Palatinate
Full name
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.


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