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Louise Françoise, Duchess of Bourbon (1 June 1673 – 16 June 1743) was the eldest surviving legitimised [1] daughter of Louis XIV of France and his maîtresse-en-titre Françoise-Athénaïs, Marquise de Montespan. She was said to have been named after her godmother, Louise de La Vallière, [2] the woman her mother had replaced as the king's mistress.
Louise Françoise, Duchess of Bourbon was the eldest surviving legitimised daughter of Louis XIV of France and his maîtresse-en-titre Françoise-Athénaïs, Marquise de Montespan. She was said to have been named after her godmother, Louise de La Vallière, the woman her mother had replaced as the king's mistress.
Louis de Bourbon-Condé (at that point known as the Duke of Bourbon) had in 1685 married Louise-Françoise de Bourbon, the legitimated daughter of Louis XIV of France and Françoise-Athénaïs, marquise de Montespan. The couple had many children and produced an heir to the Condé titles and lands.
- Birth
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- Regency of Philippe d'Orléans
- Widowhood
Louise Bénédicte was born on 8 November 1676 at the Hôtel de Condé[a] in Paris. She was the eighth child born to the then Duke and Duchess of Enghien. The name Bénédicte was added in honour of the child's maternal aunt, the Duchess of Brunswick-Lüneburg. She was brought up at the Hôtel de Condé with her many sisters and had to endure slave-like con...
At first, it was proposed that she marry Louis de Bourbon, Count of Vermandois, son of Louis XIV and Louise de La Vallière. However, the count died in exile in 1683. Louis XIV arranged several marriages into princely houses of France for his legitimised children by Louise de La Vallière. Prior to her marriage, she saw the marriage of Philippe d'Orl...
At the death of the king in 1715, however, the Parlement of Paris annulled Louis XIV's will and named Maine's brother-in-law, Philippe d'Orléans, Duke of Orléans, as Régent for the child king. Upset with this and the role played by the duc d'Orléans in reducing the status of the legitimised children of Louis XIV from the rank of Princes du Sang (wh...
After their release from imprisonment in 1720, the Maines seemed to have reconciled and led a more compatible life rather than being hostile to each other. In May 1736, the duke died at the age of sixty-six. Louis XV allowed Louise Bénédicte to keep her apartments at Versailles next to those of her daughter. These apartments overlooked the Orangéri...
Louise Françoise, Princess of Condé. Contents. 1 Early life (1673–1685) 2 Duchess of Bourbon (1685–1710) 3 Princess of Condé and widowhood (1710–1740)
Louise Françoise, Duchess of Bourbon (1 June 1673 16 June 1743) was the eldest surviving legitimised daughter of Louis XIV of France and his maîtresse-en-titre Françoise-Athénaïs, Marquise de Montespan.
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Louise Françoise de Bourbon (* 1. Juni 1673 in Tournai; † 16. Juni 1743 in Paris), auch Mademoiselle de Nantes genannt, war eine natürliche Tochter König Ludwigs XIV. und durch ihre Heirat mit Louis III. de Bourbon von 1709 bis 1710 Fürstin von Condé.
