Marie de Bourbon, Countess of Soissons
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| Princess of Carignano | |||||
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| Born |
3 May 1606 Hôtel de Soissons, Paris, France |
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| Died | 3 June 1692 (aged 86) Hôtel de Soissons, Paris, France |
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| Spouse | Thomas Francis, Prince of Carignano | ||||
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Louise, Hereditary Princess of Baden-Baden Joseph Emmanuel, Count of Soissons Eugene Maurice, Count of Soissons Emmanuel Philibert, Prince of Carignano |
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| House |
House of Bourbon (by birth) House of Savoy-Carignano (by marriage) |
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| Father | Charles, Count of Soissons | ||||
| Mother | Anne de Montafié | ||||
| Religion | Roman Catholicism | ||||
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Marie de Bourbon (3 May 1606 – 3 June 1692) was the wife of Thomas Francis, Prince of Carignano and thus a Savoyard princess by marriage. At the death of her brother in 1641, she became Countess of Soissons in her own right, passing the title down three generations of the House of Savoy.
Marie de Bourbon was born at the Hôtel de Soissons in Paris, was the second daughter and youngest child of Charles, Count of Soissons and his wife Anne de Montafié. At the court of Louis XIII, Marie enjoyed the rank of princesse du sang. She was a sister of the Duchess of Longueville. Originally placed in the Abbey of Fontevraud in Anjou, she took the habit on 10 April 1610 aged just four.
On 6 January 1625 Marie was married to Thomas Francis, ninth child of Charles Emmanuel I, Duke of Savoy and his wife Catherine Michelle of Austria. It was arranged that Thomas, as son of a reigning monarch, would hold the rank of first among the princes étrangers at the French court—taking precedence even before the formerly all-powerful House of Guise, whose kinship to the sovereign Duke of Lorraine was more remote. He was appointed Grand Master of France of the king's household, briefly replacing the traitorous Louis II de Bourbon, Prince de Condé. He engaged the services of the distinguished grammarian and courtier Claude Favre de Vaugelas as tutor for his children.
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