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Louise de Bourbon (2 February 1603 – 9 September 1637) called ''Mademoiselle de Soissons'' was the wife of
Henri d'Orléans, Duke of Longueville. She was the mother of the famous
Marie de Nemours
Marie de Nemours, originally known as Marie d'Orléans-Longueville (1625–1707), was Princess of Neuchâtel from 1694 to 1707. She was the daughter of Henri II d'Orléans, duc de Longueville and Louise de Bourbon. After the death of her brother ...
.
Life
The eldest daughter of
Charles de Bourbon, Count of Soissons and
Anne de Montafié
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Anne is sometimes used as a male name in the ...
, she was the older sister of the
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as well as the last
Count of Soissons This is a list of those who bore the title Count of Soissons (french: Comte de Soissons) and ruled Soissons and its '' civitas'' or diocese as a county in the Middle Ages. The title continued in use into modern times, but without ties to the actual ...
. Brought up at the
Abbey of Fontevraud
The Royal Abbey of Our Lady of Fontevraud or Fontevrault (in French: ''abbaye de Fontevraud'') was a monastery in the village of Fontevraud-l'Abbaye, near Chinon, in the former French duchy of Anjou. It was founded in 1101 by the itinerant preache ...
, she was placed in the care of her great-aunt
Éléonore de Bourbon
Éléonore de Bourbon-Condé (30 April 1587 – 20 January 1619) was the daughter of Henri I de Bourbon and his second wife Charlotte Catherine de la Tremoille. Éléonore's father was the first cousin of King Henry IV of France. She was al ...
, one time
Princess of Orange
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The title ...
.
[Père Hilarion de Coste. ''Les Eloges et vies des reynes, princesses, dames et damoiselles illustres en piété, courage et doctrine, qui ont fleury de nostre temps, et du temps de nos pères''. 1630. chap. 2. Pp. 175.]
''Mademoiselle de Soissons'' married
Henri II d'Orléans, Duke of Longueville
Henri II d'Orléans, duc de Longueville or Henri de Valois-Longueville (6 April 1595 – 11 May 1663), a legitimated prince of France (of royal descent) and peer of France, was a major figure during the Fronde, and served as governor of Picardy, t ...
in Paris on 10 April 1617. The newly-weds had ancestors in common, their fathers both grandsons of
François d'Orléans, Duke of Fronsac. The couple eventually had three children, only one of which survived infancy. Dying in 1637, her husband married once more, another ''
princess of the blood'' in the form of ''
Mademoiselle de Bourbon'', sister of the ''
grand Condé
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''.
Children
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Marie
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(1625–1707) married
Henri II, Duke of Nemours
Henri of Savoy (7 November 1625, Paris – 4 January 1659, Paris) was the seventh Duc de Nemours (1652–59), and was also Count of Geneva.
Henri, as the third son of Henri de Savoie, 4th Duc de Nemours, was not expected to succeed to the dukedo ...
.
#Louise (1626-1628).
#X (1634-1634).
Ancestry
References
External links
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1603 births
1637 deaths
Princesses of Neuchâtel
Louise
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Louise
Louise or Luise may refer to:
* Louise (given name)
Arts Songs
* "Louise" (Bonnie Tyler song), 2005
* "Louise" (The Human League song), 1984
* "Louise" (Jett Rebel song), 2013
* "Louise" (Maurice Chevalier song), 1929
*"Louise", by Clan of ...
17th-century French women
Duchesses of Longueville