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Louise-Marie of France, OCD (15 July 1737 – 23 December 1787) was a French princess and Discalced Carmelite, the youngest of the ten children of King Louis XV and Queen Maria Leszczyńska. She entered the Carmelite convent at Saint-Denis in 1770 and took the religious name Thérèse of Saint Augustine .
- 23 December 1787 (aged 50), Convent of Saint-Denis, France
- Bourbon
Marguerite d'Egmont. Louise of Lorraine ( French: Louise de Lorraine-Vaudémont; 30 April 1553 – 29 January 1601) was Queen of France as the wife of King Henry III from their marriage on 15 February 1575 until his death on 2 August 1589. During the first three months of their marriage, she was also Queen of Poland and Grand Duchess of Lithuania.
- Marguerite d'Egmont
- Nicholas, Duke of Mercœur
Mar 22, 2024 · Louise Of Savoy (born Sept. 11, 1476, Pont d’Ain, France—died Sept. 22, 1531, Grez, near Fontainebleau) was the mother of King Francis I of France, who as regent twice during his reign played a major role in the government of France. The daughter of Philip II the Landless, duke of Savoy, and Marguerite de Bourbon, Louise married Charles de ...
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Louise's new kingdom was also suffering from great unrest. Throughout the 1570s and 1580s, France was in a state of almost constant civil strife as the Wars of Religion divided the state between Catholics and Protestants and threatened Henry's hold on the throne, a violent situation complicated by the intervention of foreign powers.
Catholicism. Signature. Louis XV (15 February 1710 – 10 May 1774), known as Louis the Beloved (French: le Bien-Aimé ), [1] was King of France from 1 September 1715 until his death in 1774. He succeeded his great-grandfather Louis XIV at the age of five. Until he reached maturity (then defined as his 13th birthday) in 1723, the kingdom was ...
- 1 September 1715 – 10 May 1774
- Marie Adélaïde of Savoy
LOUISE OF FRANCE (TH É R È SE DE ST. AUGUSTIN), VEN. Daughter of Louis XV of France and Maria Leszczynska; b. Versailles, July 15, 1737; d. St. Denis, Dec. 23, 1787. She was educated at the Convent of fontevrault as a child, and at 14 came to court where she led a pious life.
Louise of Savoy was a resolute, hardheaded, practical woman who rightly deserves to be remembered as a successful regent of France. The completion of the Peace of Cambrai in 1529, after weeks of patient negotiation with Margaret of Austria (1480–1530), provided a fitting end to her career.
