Princess Anne Charlotte of Lorraine
| Anne Charlotte de Lorraine | |||||
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| Abbess of Remiremont, Mons and Essen | |||||
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17 May 1714 Château de Lunéville, France |
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| Died | 7 November 1773 (aged 59) Mons, Belgium |
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| Burial | Église Saint-François-des-Cordeliers, Nancy, France | ||||
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| House | House of Lorraine | ||||
| Father | Leopold, Duke of Lorraine | ||||
| Mother | Élisabeth Charlotte d'Orléans | ||||
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| Anne Charlotte de Lorraine |
Anne Charlotte of Lorraine (17 May 1714 – 7 November 1773) was the Abbess of Remiremont, Mons and Essen. She was the youngest daughter and the youngest of thirteen children of Leopold, Duke of Lorraine, and his spouse Élisabeth Charlotte d'Orléans. Her mother was the niece of Louis XIV of France and sister of Philippe II, Duke of Orléans and Regent of France during the minority of Louis XV.
Anne Charlotte was born at the Château de Lunéville because the Capital of Lorraine, Nancy, was occupied by French troops of Louis XIV due to the War of the Spanish Succession. At the time of her birth, she had three brothers and a sister alive: Léopold Clément, heir to the throne since the death of Louis in 1711; Francis Stephen born in 1708; Élisabeth Thérèse born in 1711; and then Charles-Alexandre born in 1712. In 1715 her mother lost a daughter who died soon after birth.
In 1719 the Château de Lunéville where Anne Charlotte was born was damaged greatly by a fire.
Anne Charlotte was seven and a half when she went to the French court of her maternal family, the Royal House of Bourbon. She met her grand mother, the Dowager Duchess of Orléans, the princesse Palatine for the first and last time; the occasion was for the coronation of Louis XV at the Cathedral of Notre-Dame in Rheims. Her grandmother said that Anne Charlotte was a "little beauty" and that she and her siblings had been brought up well; her mother would always be praised for her maternal instinct. Uncommon for the time, Anne Charlotte's mother insisted that she raise her children.
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