Joseph de Lorraine (Anne Marie Joseph; 30 April 1679 – 29 April 1739) was a member of the
House of Lorraine
The House of Lorraine (german: link=no, Haus Lothringen) originated as a cadet branch of the House of Metz. It inherited the Duchy of Lorraine in 1473 after the death without a male heir of Nicholas I, Duke of Lorraine. By the marriage of Fra ...
and
Count of Harcourt {{Unreferenced, date=June 2019, bot=noref (GreenC bot)
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. He was styled ''prince de Guise'' before becoming Count of Harcourt.
Biography
Born to
Alphonse Henri, Count of Harcourt and his wife
Marie Françoise de Brancas, he was second of three children.
He married Marie Louise Jeannin de Castille on 2 July 1705 and the couple had four children, three of which survived infancy and two had further issue. He died in 1739 aged 59. His female line descendants are the
Dukes of Noailles through his eldest grand child
Marie Charlotte de La Tour d'Auvergne, ''princesse de Beauvau'', wife of
Charles Juste de Beauvau.
Issue
*
Louise Henriette Françoise de Lorraine
Louise Henriette Françoise de Lorraine (1707 – 31 March 1737) was a French noblewoman and member of the House of Guise, a cadet branch of the House of Lorraine. She was the last wife of Emmanuel Théodose de La Tour d'Auvergne (1668–1730) ...
(1707 – 31 March 1737) married
Emmanuel Théodose de La Tour d'Auvergne and had issue;
*
''Marie Élisabeth'' Sofie de Lorraine (1710 – 2 August 1740) married
Louis François Armand de Vignerot du Plessis and had issue;
*
Louis de Lorraine (17 December 1720 – 20 June 1747) never married; styled Prince of Harcourt but de facto Count of Harcourt
*X de Lorraine (male) (January – May 1721) died unbaptised.
References and notes
Sources
*Georges Poull, ''La maison ducale de Lorraine'', 1991
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1679 births
1739 deaths
House of Guise
House of Lorraine
Counts of Harcourt
17th-century French people
18th-century French people