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Louise Élisabeth was born on 22 November 1693, at the Palace of Versailles. As a member of the House of Bourbon-Condé, she was a princesse du sang. In youth, she was known at court as Mademoiselle de Charolais, [1] a style later borne by her younger sister. Her parents' second daughter, and third child, she was one of nine children.
Louise-Élisabeth of France. Louise-Élisabeth of France (Marie Louise-Élisabeth [a]; 14 August 1727 – 6 December 1759) was a French princess, a fille de France. She was the eldest daughter of King Louis XV and Queen Maria Leszczyńska, and the twin sister of Henriette of France, and she was the only one of his legitimate daughters who married.
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- Princess of Asturias
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Louise Élisabeth d’Orléans was the fifth child and fourth daughter born to Philippe II, Duke of Orléans and his wife, Françoise Marie de Bourbon. Her mother, Françoise, was one of the legitimised daughters born to King Louis XIV of France and his royal mistress, Madame de Montespan. As a member of the reigning House of Bourbon, Louise Élisabeth was...
In November 1721, at the age of eleven, Élisabeth was married by proxy, in Paris. She and her sister Philippine Élisabeth soon left for Madrid. Despite an impertinent reception from the Spanish royal family, primarily by Elisabeth Farnese, the stepmother of her future husband, she married Louis of Spain on 20 January 1722 in Lerma. Her dowry contai...
On 15 January 1724, the emotionally unstable Philip V abdicated the throne in favour of his eldest son, who then became King Louis of Spain. Élisabeth, upon her husband ascending the throne, became queen of Spain. After only seven months of reigning Louis succumbed due to smallpox. Because he died without an heir, his father ascended the throne onc...
After the death of her husband, she returned to France at the request of her mother, the Dowager Duchess of Orléans. She was obliged to live peacefully in Paris, away from the Court of her young cousin Louis XV. As the widow of the King of Spain, she was to receive an annual pension of 600,000 livres from the state; however, Spain would not pay bec...
Bibliography 1. Pimodan (comte de), Louise-Élisabeth d'Orléans, reine d'Espagne 1709-1742, 393 p., Plon, Paris, 1928.
Marie Louise Élisabeth of France, also referred to as Louise Élisabeth of France by secondary sources, (14 August 1727 – 6 December 1759) was a French princess. She was the eldest daughter of King Louis XV of France and Maria Leszczyńska, and the elder twin sister of Princess Henriette of France.
Louise Élisabeth de Bourbon (Louise Élisabeth; 22 November 1693–27 May 1775) was a daughter of Louis de Bourbon, Prince of Condé, and his wife, Louise Françoise de Bourbon, herself an illegitimate daughter of Louis XIV of France and Madame de Montespan. She was the wife of Louis Armand de Bourbon. She was the Princess of Conti by marriage.
Name variations: Louise Elizabeth de Bourbon-Conde; Mlle de Charolais. Born Nov 22, 1693, in Versailles; died May 27, 1775 in Paris; dau. of Louis Henry de Bourbon (1668–1710), 7th prince of Condé, and Louise Françoise de Bourbon (1673–1743, legitimized dau. of Louis XIV and Madame de Montespan); granddau. of Louis XIV; m. Source for ...
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Louise-Élisabeth of France was a French princess, a fille de France. She was the eldest daughter of King Louis XV and Queen Maria Leszczyńska, and the twin sister of Henriette of France, and she was the only one of his legitimate daughters who married. She married Infante Philip of Spain, who inherited the Duchy of Parma and Piacenza through his mother in 1748. Infante Philip was her father ...
