Louis, Count of Vermandois
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| Légitimé de France Count of Vermandois |
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Portrait of Louis
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| Born |
October 2, 1667 Château de Saint-Germain-en-Laye, France |
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| Died | November 18, 1683 (aged 16) Flanders, present-day Belgium |
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| Burial | Arras Cathedral, Arras, France | ||||
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| Father | Louis XIV of France | ||||
| Mother | Louise de La Vallière | ||||
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| Louis de Bourbon, Légitimé de France |
Louis de Bourbon, Légitimé de France, Count of Vermandois (2 October 1667– Flanders, 18 November 1683) was the eldest surviving son of Louis XIV of France and his mistress Louise de La Vallière.
He was sometimes known as Louis de Vermandois after his title. He died unmarried and without issue.
Louis de Bourbon was born at the Château de Saint-Germain-en-Laye on 2 October 1667. He was named after his father. Like his elder sister, Marie Anne de Bourbon, who was known at court as Mademoiselle de Blois, he was given the surname of de Bourbon not de France as a result of his illegitimacy.
As a child, he called his mother Belle Maman because of her beauty. Louis was legitimised in 1669, at the age of two, and was given the title of comte de Vermandois and was made an Admiral of France.
In 1674, his mother entered a Carmelite convent in Paris, and took the name Sœur Louise de la Miséricorde. Afterwards, they saw very little of each other. From his mother and his father, Louis had five full siblings, many of whom died before his birth.
After his mother left, Louis lived at the Palais Royal in Paris with his uncle, Philippe of France, duc d'Orléans, and his wife Elizabeth Charlotte of the Palatinate. At the Palais-Royal, he became very close to his aunt despite her well-known dislike of Louis XIV's bastards. The affection the aunt and nephew had for each other never diminished.
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