Élisabeth Marguerite d'Orléans
| Isabelle d'Orléans | |||||
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| Duchess of Guise | |||||
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| Born |
26 December 1646 Palais du Luxembourg, Paris, France |
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| Died | 17 March 1696 (aged 49) Palace of Versailles, France |
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| Burial | Carmel of the Faubourg Saint-Jacques, Paris | ||||
| Spouse | Louis Joseph, Duke of Guise | ||||
| Issue | Francis Joseph, Duke of Guise | ||||
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| House |
House of Guise House of Orléans |
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| Father | Gaston, Duke of Orléans | ||||
| Mother | Marguerite of Lorraine | ||||
| Religion | Roman Catholicism | ||||
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| Élisabeth Marguerite d'Orléans |
Élisabeth Marguerite d'Orléans. (26 December 1646 - 17 March 1696), known as Isabelle d'Orléans, was the Duchess of Alençon and, during her husband's lifetime, Duchess of Angoulême. She was a daughter of Gaston d'Orléans and a first cousin of Louis XIV of France. She has no descendants today. She was suo jure Duchess of Alençon and Angoulême.
Élisabeth d'Orléans was born in Paris at the Luxembourg Palace, then called the Palais d'Orléans, and now the seat of the Senate of France. The palace had been given to her father on the death of his mother, Marie de' Medici in 1642. Élisabeth was known by her first name, Élisabeth, but she always signed Isabelle. One of five children, she was not raised with her siblings but in a convent, because she was destined to become abbess of Remiremont and was styled as such.
Known as Mademoiselle d'Alençon until her marriage, Isabelle (Élisabeth Marguerite) was acquainted with the young Louise Françoise de La Baume Le Blanc, who was to become duchesse de La Vallière, mistress of Louis XIV, and who grew up at Blois in the entourage of Isabelle's sister Marguerite Louise d'Orléans. It was assumed that Isabelle's older and more beautiful sister, Marguerite Louise, would marry Louis, and that Françoise Madeleine would marry another European prince. A possible match was one with Charles Emmanuel II, Duke of Savoy, who later married her younger sister on 4 March 1663.
Another possible husband was her cousin Henri Jules de Bourbon - the future Prince de Condé and Prince du Sang. This was dropped as Henri Jules preferred the German Anne Henriette of Bavaria who was a granddaughter of the Queen of Bohemia.
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