Béatrice Hiéronyme de Lorraine (1 July 1662 – 9 February 1738) was a member of the

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and was the Abbess of Remiremont. She was a member of the household of '' Le Grand Dauphin'' and was the supposed wife of her cousin the '' Chevalier de Lorraine''. She died childless.

Biography

Béatrice Hiéronyme was the eldest daughter of François Marie de Lorraine, Prince de Lillebonne and his second wife Anne de Lorraine. She never married. Known as ''Mademoiselle de Lillebonne'' in her youth, she was a member of the Household of Louis, ''le Grand Dauphin'' before she took a religious path in life. She was very close to her sister Élisabeth. While in the household of the Dauphin, she became close to

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known as ''Madame la Duchesse''. She was also close to her uncle Charles Henri, Prince of Vaudémont and the

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. A member of the ''House of Guise'' founded by Claude, Duke of Guise, he was a ''Prince of Lorraine'' as a male line descendant of

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. At court, she, like his Lorraine family, held the rank of '' Foreign Prince'', a rank which was below that of the immediate

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and Princes of the Blood. In 1686, she was a proposed bride of

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. Louis XIV had initially supported the marriage but later said he would not involve himself in the union. Instead, Francesco married Margherita Maria Farnese and never had any children.Francesco died in 1694 without an heir and Modena passed to his uncle Rinaldo d'Este, Duke of Modena, who married Charlotte Felicity of Brunswick-Lüneburg Her paternal first cousins included the Chevalier de Lorraine (lover of

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; her maternal cousins included

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''and'' the above-mentioned Duke of Orléans. She was made the coadjutrice of Remiremont in 1705; In 1710, she became the Abbess of Remiremont, a prestigious

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near Remiremont,

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. Taking over from Christina of Salm, she would remain the Princess-Abbess till her death in 1738. She died in Paris. Saint-Simon said that she married her cousin Philippe de Lorraine.

Ancestry

References and notes

Sources

*Georges Poull, ''La maison ducale de Lorraine'', 1991 {{DEFAULTSORT:Lorraine, Beatrice Hieronyme De 1662 births 1738 deaths Beatrice Hieronyme Beatrice Hieronyme 17th-century French women 18th-century French nuns Abbesses of Remiremont Beatrice Hieronyme Benedictine abbesses