Biography
Marie Joséphine Thérèse de Lorraine was the second of four children born to Louis, Prince of Brionne, Louis de Lorraine, prince de Brionne, a cadet of the House of Guise, among the most influential families of France's ''ancien regime''. The senior, sovereign branch of the House of Lorraine would merge with the Imperial House of Habsburg during her lifetime through marriage of the last reigning duke, Francis I, Holy Roman Emperor, Francis, to Maria Theresa of Austria. Her mother was princess :File:Louise-Julie-Constance_de_Rohan,_comtesse_de_Brionne_as_Venus_or_Helen_of_Troy.jpg, Louise Julie Constance of Rohan (1735-1815), who also belonged to a powerful family of ''Foreign Prince, princes étrangers'', the House of Rohan. Her brother, Charles Eugène de Lorraine, Prince of Lambesc, Charles Eugène de Lorraine, prince de Lambesc (25 September 1751 – 11 November 1825), escorted his kinswoman Marie Antoinette to France from Vienna in 1770, became Austrian ambassador to France, and would be the last male of the Guise branch of the House of Lorraine. On 18 October 1768 Joséphine married Victor Amadeus II, Prince of Carignan, Prince Victor Amadeus of Savoy, the son and heir of Louis Victor, Prince of Carignan and his German wife, the Landgravine Christine Henriette of Hesse-Rotenburg. Amadeus was also the brother of the ''Princess Marie Louise of Savoy, princesse de Lamballe'',Princess Maria Teresa Luisa of Savoy married Louis Alexandre de Bourbon (1747–1768), Louis Alexandre de Bourbon in May 1768. Louis Alexandre was a grandson of Louis XIV of France, Louis XIV and Françoise-Athénaïs de Rochechouart, Marquise de Montespan the tragic confidante of Queen Marie Antoinette. Charles Emmanuel, Prince of Carignan, Prince Charles Emmanuel of Savoy was born to Joséphine in Turin on 24 October 1770. She died aged 43 in Turin at the Palazzo Carignano and was buried at Turin Cathedral until 1816, when she was moved to the Basilica of Superga during the reign of Victor Emmanuel I of Sardinia.Issue
*Charles Emmanuel, Prince of Carignan, Prince Charles Emmanuel of Savoy (24 October 1770 – 16 August 1800), ''Prince of Carignan'', married Princess Maria Christina of Saxony (1770–1851), Princess Maria Christina of Saxony and had issue.Ancestry
References and notes
{{DEFAULTSORT:Josephine of Lorraine, Princess 1753 births 1797 deaths House of Savoy House of Guise 18th-century French people French princesses Princesses of Carignan Burials at Turin Cathedral Burials at the Basilica of Superga