Louis II d'Orléans, duc de Longueville and comte de Dunois (1510 – 9 June 1537) was a French aristocrat and the first husband of

Mary of Guise Mary of Guise (french: Marie de Guise; 22 November 1515 – 11 June 1560), also called Mary of Lorraine, was a French noblewoman of the House of Guise, a cadet branch of the House of Lorraine and one of the most powerful families in France. She ...

, who later became queen consort of

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and mother to

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. He was the second son of

Louis I d'Orléans, duc de Longueville Louis I d'Orléans, Duke of Longueville (1480 – Beaugency, 1 August 1516), was a French aristocrat and general, Grand Chamberlain of France and governor of Provence. Louis was the second son of François I, Duke of Longueville, and Agnes of Savo ...

by his wife Jeanne of Hochberg, and succeeded his brother Claude when the latter died in 1524. He married Mary of Guise on 4 August 1534 at the Louvre Palace. During their brief marriage, the couple had two children: *

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, born 30 October 1535, who would later succeed to the dukedom *Louis, a posthumous child born 4 August 1537, who died four months later. Louis died at

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on 9 June 1537, Mary would later marry

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* * * 1510 births 1537 deaths Louis II d'Orleans House of Valois-Orléans 16th-century peers of France {{France-noble-stub