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
Henri is an Estonian, Finnish, French, German and Luxembourgish form of the masculine given name Henry.
People with this given name
; French noblemen
:'' See the ' List of rulers named Henry' for Kings of France named Henri.''
* Henri I de Mont ...
and
Louise de Bourbon
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.
Life
The eldest daughter of Charles de ...
. After the death of her brother Jean Louis Charles d'Orléans-Longueville in 1694 she succeeded him as sovereign
Princess of Neuchâtel, although she remained a prominent member of the French royal court.
Biography
Descended from Jean d'Orléans, illegitimate son of
Louis I, Duke of Orléans
Louis I of Orléans (13 March 1372 – 23 November 1407) was Duke of Orléans from 1392 to his death. He was also Duke of Touraine (1386–1392), Count of Valois (1386?–1406) Blois (1397–1407), Angoulême (1404–1407 ...
, she was known as Mademoiselle de Longueville prior to her marriage.
By her marriage with
Henri of Savoy, she became
Duchess of Nemours Duke of Nemours was a title in the Peerage of France. The name refers to Nemours in the Île-de-France region of north-central France.
History
In the 12th and 13th centuries, the Lordship of Nemours, in the Gatinais, France, was a possession of t ...
. The couple were married on 22 May 1657 at Trie. The dukes of Nemours were descendants of the
Dukes of Savoy
The titles of count, then of duke of Savoy are titles of nobility attached to the historical territory of Savoy. Since its creation, in the 11th century, the county was held by the House of Savoy. The County of Savoy was elevated to a duchy at the ...
having settled in France in the sixteenth century, where they ranked as ''
princes étrangers''.
At an early age she was involved in the first
Fronde
The Fronde () was a series of civil wars in France between 1648 and 1653, occurring in the midst of the Franco-Spanish War, which had begun in 1635. King Louis XIV confronted the combined opposition of the princes, the nobility, the law cour ...
, of which her father and stepmother,
Anne Geneviève de Bourbon
Anne-Geneviève de Bourbon (28 August 16195 April 1679) was a French princess who is remembered for her beauty and amours, her influence during the civil wars of the Fronde, and her final conversion to Jansenism.
Biography
Early life
Anne Ge ...
, were leaders. She 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 duke ...
in 1657. When he died in 1659, leaving her childless, the rest of her life was mainly spent in contesting her inheritance with her stepmother.
Her Savoyard nieces included
Marie Jeanne, Duchess of Savoy and
Marie Françoise, Queen of Portugal.
The
Dukes of Longueville
Duke of Longueville (''Longueville-sur-Scie'') was a title of French nobility, though not a peerage of France.
History
The title was created in 1505 by King Louis XII of France for his first cousin once removed, François d'Orléans, Count of ...
had acquired the principality of Neuchâtel through marriage to
Johanna of Hachberg-Sausenberg
Johanna of Hachberg-Sausenberg (1485 – 23 September 1543), was a noble feudal lord, countess regnant of Neuchâtel in 1503–1512 and again from 1529 to 1543. She was the daughter of Philip of Hochberg and Maria of Savoy.
Life
Johanna inherite ...
. After the death of her brother
Jean-Louis-Charles d'Orléans in 1694, she succeeded him as
Princess of Neuchâtel.
Legacy
She left some interesting memoirs, published by C. B. Petitot in the ''Collection complete des memoires'' (1819–1829).
She was the muse for
Jean Loret
Jean Loret (ca 1600-1665) was a French writer and poet known for publishing the weekly news of Parisian society (including, initially, its pinnacle, the court of Louis XIV itself) from 1650 until 1665 in verse in what he called a ''gazette burles ...
's ''Muse historique'' (1650, 1660, 1665), a collection of weekly ''gazette burlesque'' reporting on the news of Paris society and the court of
Louis XIV
, house = Bourbon
, father = Louis XIII
, mother = Anne of Austria
, birth_date =
, birth_place = Château de Saint-Germain-en-Laye, Saint-Germain-en-Laye, France
, death_date =
, death_place = Palace of Vers ...
in the form of letters to Marie d'Orléans-Longueville which are considered an early example of French journalism.
Her childless death in 1707, without close relatives, opened a conflict about her vast inheritance. For example, see
Duke of Estouteville
Duke of Estouteville (''duc d'Estouteville'') was a title in the French nobility that is claimed today by the Prince of Monaco.
It was created in 1537 by King Francis I of France for Adrienne d'Estouteville (1512–1560) and her husband Francis de ...
.
Ancestry
References
External links
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1625 births
1707 deaths
Princes of Neuchâtel
Counts of Dreux
Neuchatel, Princess of, Marie de Nemours
Marie
Marie may refer to:
People Name
* Marie (given name)
* Marie (Japanese given name)
* Marie (murder victim), girl who was killed in Florida after being pushed in front of a moving vehicle in 1973
* Marie (died 1759), an enslaved Cree person in Tr ...
Nobility from Paris
French duchesses
17th-century French nobility
18th-century French nobility
18th-century women rulers
17th-century women rulers