Louis de Lorraine, Duke of Joyeuse (11 January 1622 – 27 September 1654, Paris) was a younger son of
Charles, Duke of Guise and
Henriette Catherine de Joyeuse.
Life
He was appointed
Grand Chamberlain of France
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in 1644, shortly after the Guises were permitted to return from their exile in
Florence
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. Louis XIV having returned the confiscated lands of Joyeuse, and the title "Joyeuse", to the once disgraced Guises, upon his majority in 1647 Louis de Lorraine was granted the title
Duke of Joyeuse, the duchy of his maternal ancestors.
As Colonel General of the light cavalry, he served as a volunteer at the siege of
Gravelines
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in 1644, and in two other campaigns. ("His company of mounted guards and their trappings were the finest possible", commented a newsletter of the time.) He died in Paris from a wound in his right arm, received on 22 April 1654, while charging the enemy near
Arras
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. He was buried at
Joinville
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near his paternal ancestors.
He married on 3 November 1649, in
Toulon
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The Commune of Toulon h ...
,
Marie Françoise de Valois (d. 1696), daughter of
Louis Emmanuel, Duke of Angoulême, who succeeded her father in 1653. Mentally unstable (''imbécile''), she was confined, by her mother, to the chateau of Ecouen or at the Hotel d'Angoulême. A few years after their marriage, Marie was sent to the abbey of
Essey. They had two children:
*
Louis Joseph, Duke of Guise (1650–1671) married
Élisabeth Marguerite d'Orléans
Élisabeth Marguerite d'Orléans (26 December 1646 – 17 March 1696), known as Isabelle d'Orléans, was the Duchess of Alençon and, during her husband's lifetime, Duchess of Angoulême. She was the first cousin of Louis XIV of France, being the ...
* Catherine Henriette (1651–1655/56)
References
Sources
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Further reading
* Jules Fériel,''Notes historiques sur la ville et les seigneurs de Joinville'' (Paris: Ladrange, 1835), pp. 137, 144-146
* Bibliothèque nationale de France, mss. Dossiers bleus, "Lorraine", 403, fol. 25
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Joyeuse, Louis, Duc de
Joyeuse, Louis, Duc de
Louis
Louis may refer to:
People
* Louis (given name), origin and several individuals with this name
* Louis (surname)
* Louis (singer), Serbian singer
Other uses
* Louis (coin), a French coin
* HMS ''Louis'', two ships of the Royal Navy
See also
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Dukes of Angoulême
Counts of Eu
Grand chamberlains of France
Princes of Lorraine
17th-century French people