Louis Alexandre de Bourbon (1747–1768)
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| Prince of Lamballe | |||||
Louis Alexandre de Bourbon, Prince of Lamballe.
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6 September 1747 Hôtel de Toulouse, Paris, France |
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| Died | 6 May 1768 (aged 20) Château de Louveciennes, France |
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| Burial | Chapelle royale de Dreux, France | ||||
| Spouse | Maria Luisa of Savoy | ||||
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| Father | Louis Jean Marie de Bourbon | ||||
| Mother | Maria Teresa d'Este | ||||
| Religion | Roman Catholicism | ||||
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| Louis Alexandre Joseph Stanislas de Bourbon |
Louis Alexandre de Bourbon (Louis Alexandre Joseph Stanislas; 6 September 1747 – 6 May 1768) was the son and heir of Louis Jean Marie de Bourbon, grandson of Louis XIV by the king's legitimised son, Louis Alexandre de Bourbon. He was known as the Prince of Lamballe from birth. He pre-deceased his father, and died childless.
Louis Alexandre was born on 6 September 1747, at the Hôtel de Toulouse (now the seat of the Banque de France, in the 1st arrondissement of Paris), the Paris residence of his family. His father, the Louis Jean Marie de Bourbon, duc de Penthièvre, was the only legitimate child of Louis Alexandre de Bourbon, the youngest legitimised son of King Louis XIV and Madame de Montespan. His mother, Princess Maria Teresa Felicity of Modena, the daughter of the Duke of Modena, also a descendant of Madame de Montespan, and related to the House of Orléans. The prince de Lamballe, as he was known all his life, was the couple's only surviving son. He was one of seven children.
At the death of his older brother Louis Marie de Bourbon, the Prince of Lamballe became the heir to the Penthièvre fortune, much of which had been extorted by Louis XIV from his childless cousin la Grande Mademoiselle, and bestowed upon Louis XIV's legitimised elder son, Louis Auguste de Bourbon, duc du Maine. His title, prince de Lamballe, came from one of the seigneuries owned by his father; it was neither a sovereign princedom nor a legal title. Rather, it was a titre de courtoisie. His mother died in childbirth in 1754 at the age of twenty-seven.
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