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Louis Jean Marie de Bourbon
(16 November 1725 ? 4 March 1793) was the son of Louis Alexandre de Bourbon and his wife Marie Victoire de Noailles.
[1]
He was also a grandson of Louis XIV of France and his mistress, Madame de Montespan. From birth he was known as the Duke of Penthievre. He also possessed many titles inherited from his father and was the richest man in France during his lifetime. He was later the father in law of
Philippe Egalite
. Though his fsther was an illegitimate son of a king the young duke was still known as and given the rank of a
Prince of the blood
. A majority of his vast fortune had been inherited via
La Grande Mademoiselle
. Hen was also famous for his incredible generosity to the poor of the time. He also owned the land where the future
Royal Chapel of Dreux
would be built.
In 1744 Penthievre married
Princess Maria Teresa Felicitas d'Este of Modena
,
[2]
(1726-1754), the daughter of
Francesco d'Este
, the Duke of Modena and Reggio, and his first cousin,
Charlotte Aglae d'Orleans
. The young couple occupied a suite of apartments at Versailles which had previously been occupied by their joint ancestor
Madame de Montespan
. These apartments were used by the duke and his family until the reign of
Louis XVI of France
when the space was given to
Mesdames
, the new king's spinster aunts.
The couple had seven children, only two of whom survived infancy:
- Louis Marie de Bourbon, Duke of Rambouillet (, 2 January 1746 ? 13 November 1749) died young.
- Louis Alexandre de Bourbon, "Prince of Lamballe"
(6 September 1747 ? 6 May 1768), married
Princess Marie Louise of Savoy,
Mademoiselle de Carignan
and had no children.
- Jean Marie de Bourbon (Hotel de Toulouse, Paris, 17 July 1748 ? Hotel de Toulouse, Paris, 19 May 1755), 'Duke of Chateauvillain died young.
- Vincent de Bourbon, Count of Guingamp (22 June 1750 ? 14 March 1752) died young.
- Marie Louise de Bourbon,
Mademoiselle de Penthievre
(18 October 1751 ? 26 September 1753) died young.
- Louise Marie Adelaide de Bourbon
,
Mademoiselle d'Ivoy
and later
Mademoiselle de Penthievre
(13 March 1753 ? , 23 June 1821), married
Philippe d'Orleans
and had issue.
- Louis Marie Felicite de Bourbon (29 April 1754 ? 30 April 1754) died young.
The Duchess of Penthievre died after her last childbirth in 1754. Very badly hurt by the loss of his young wife, the duke never married again despite the sister of his dead wife, Princess Matilde being suggested as a possible candidate to marry. The widower refused.
16 November 1725 ? 4 March 1793
His Serene Highness
The Duke of Penthievre.
- ↑
Dumont de Montigny,
The Memoir of Lieutenant Dumont, 1715-1747: A Sojourner in the French Atlantic
(Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2012), p. 435
- ↑
Virginia G. Sully, 'The Princesse de Lamballe',
Peterson's Magazine
, Vol. C, No. 4 (Philadelphia, 1891), p. 320
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