Louise Élisabeth d'Orléans
| Louise Élisabeth d'Orléans | |
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Queen Louise Élisabeth (by Jean Ranc, 1724)
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| Queen consort of Spain | |
| Tenure | 15 January 1724 – 31 August 1724 |
| Born |
11 December 1709 Palace of Versailles, France |
| Died | 16 June 1742 (aged 32) Luxembourg Palace, Paris, France |
| Burial | Église Saint-Sulpice, Paris, France |
| Spouse | Louis I of Spain |
| House | House of Bourbon |
| Father | Philippe II, Duke of Orléans |
| Mother | Françoise Marie de Bourbon |
| Religion | Roman Catholicism |
Louise Élisabeth d'Orléans (Spanish: Luisa Isabel; 11 December 1709 – 16 June 1742) was Queen consort of Spain as the wife of King Louis I.
Louise Élisabeth d'Orléans was one of the seven daughters of Philippe II, Duke of Orléans, and his wife, Françoise Marie de Bourbon. Her mother was a legitimised daughter of Louis XIV of France and his mistress, Madame de Montespan. She was known as Élisabeth. As a member of the reigning House of Bourbon, Élisabeth was a princesse du sang.
She was born at the Palace of Versailles, and was her parents' fourth surviving daughter (the first, Mademoiselle de Valois died a year after birth). Prior to her marriage, she was known as Mademoiselle de Montpensier. She grew up among one brother and five sisters. Because no one was much interested in her as a child, Louise Élisabeth received a poor education and seemed destined for marriage to some obscure German or Italian prince. Like her younger sister, Louise, she had a convent education. She was very close to her brother, Louis, Duke of Chartres at birth, who, upon the death of their father in 1723, would inherit the title of Duke of Orléans.
Since 1715, her father was de facto ruler of France as the Regent for the child, King Louis XV. In 1718, the War of the Quadruple Alliance broke out between France and Spain. In 1720, King Philip V of Spain wanted to make peace and proposed a double marriage: his three-year-old daughter, Infanta Mariana Victoria, would marry the eleven-year-old Louis XV, and his son and heir, Louis, would marry one of the Regent's daughters.
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