Louise Elizabeth de Bourbon ( , - , ) - Princess Conti, daughter of Louis III of Bourbon , Prince Conde, and his wife, Louise Francoise de Bourbon , the legitimate daughter of King Louis XIV of France and his famous favorite Francoise Atenaise de Montespan . Louise Elizabeth in her youth was known as Madame Charolais [3] .
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She was the wife of Louis Armand II de Bourbon , Prince of Conti. It was Louise Elizabeth who introduced Madame de Pompadour to the court of King Louis XV of France; she also built the Hotel de Brienne, where the French Ministry of Defense is currently located. Louise Elizabeth was the duchess of d'Etamp in her own right, inheriting the title after the death of her aunt Maria de Bourbon , the dowager of the Duchess de Vendome. Since 1740, she owned the county of Sancerre , previously owned by her brother Louis IV de Bourbon , Prince Conde.
Content
- 1 Biography
- 1.1 Marriage
- 1.2 Children
- 1.3 Late years
- 2 Titles and appeals
- 3 Pedigree
- 4 notes
Biography
Marriage
When Louise Elizabeth was 17 years old, her mother invited her to marry one of the king’s grandchildren, the young Duke of Berry . The marriage did not take place because of the machinations of aunt Louise Elizabeth, the Duchess of Orleans , who wanted to marry the duke for her own daughter, Maria Louise Elizabeth of Orleans .
On July 9, 1713 at Versailles, Louise Elizabeth married her cousin Louis Armand de Bourbon , Prince Conti. Her husband, who was three years younger than his bride, became Prince Conti in 1709 after the early death of his father, François Louis , Prince Conti. His mother was Maria Theresa de Bourbon , the eldest granddaughter of the Great Conde .
They married at a double wedding, uniting the houses of Conde and Conti, the branches of the Bourbon house. Louise Elizabeth's elder brother Louis Henri de Bourbon married Maria Anne de Bourbon , Mademoiselle de Conti [4] .
In August 1716, 22-year-old Louise Elizabeth contracted smallpox from her husband, whom she looked after during an illness.
Louise Elizabeth had several extramarital affairs. Her infidelity revolted her husband, and he began to beat his wife; twice she had to see a doctor. After another scene of jealousy, the princess refused to live with her husband and left for her mother. She later took refuge in a monastery.
In the early years of marriage, a huge number of cases were examined in the Paris Parliament on the violent treatment of Prince Conti to his wife and on her desire to leave him [5] . In 1725, she agreed to return to her husband, who locked her in a castle in L'Il Adam . Later, she was able to convince him to allow her to return to Paris to give birth to a daughter, Louise Henrietta . Her husband died a year later.
Children
Louise Elizabeth and Louis Arman had five children:
- Louis de Bourbon , Count of La Marsh (March 28, 1715 - August 1, 1717), died in childhood
- Louis Francois I de Bourbon , Prince de Conti (August 13, 1717 - August 2, 1776), wife - Louise Diana of Orleans ; left offspring
- Louis Armand de Bourbon , Duke of Mercury (August 19, 1720 - May 13, 1722), died in childhood
- Charles de Bourbon , Count of Ales (February 5, 1722 - August 7, 1730), died in childhood
- Louise Henrietta de Bourbon (June 20, 1726 - February 9, 1759), husband - Louis Philippe I of Orleans ; left offspring
Later years
The Dowager Princess and her aunt, the Dowager Duchess of Orleans, in 1743 arranged the marriage of her son, Louis Francois , with her cousin Louise Diana of Orleans .
After the death of her mother in June 1743, she acquired the castle de Louvesien, which was subsequently returned to the crown. Louis XV, in turn, handed over to his successor, Madame de Pompadour, Madame Dubarry . The Dowager Princess Conti later also acquired the castle de Voysen.
Later, in 1746, Louis XV asked the Dowager Princess to present her new mistress, the future Madame de Pompadour, to the court. She attended a ball in Versailles in honor of the marriage of the Infanta Maria Theresa Rafaela of Spain with the Dauphin Louis Ferdinand in 1745. According to biographer Madame de Pompadour Nancy Mitford , the proud widowed princess was unhappy that no one recognized her. [6]
The 81-year-old princess died in her city house in Paris in 1775. She was buried in the church of Saint-Sulpice in Paris. Before that, she managed to sell the Hotel de Conti to her grandson Louis Francois de Bourbon-Conti .
Titles and appeals
- November 22, 1693 - July 9, 1713 : Her Grace Mademoiselle de Conde and Mademoiselle de Charolais [7]
- July 9, 1713 - May 4, 1727 : Her Grace Princess Conti [8]
- May 4, 1727 - May 27, 1775 : Her Grace the Dowager Princess Conti
Pedigree
Notes
- ↑ 1 2 3 4 CERL Thesaurus - A consortium of European science libraries .
- ↑ 1 2 3 4 The Peerage - 717826 copies.
- ↑ Louise Élisabeth de Bourbon
- ↑ LE FONCTIONNEMENT DE LA COUR DE VERSAILLES
- ↑ Memoirs of Saint Simon
- ↑ Mitfod. Nancy, Madame de Pompadour , Sphere, London, 1964, pg. 63
- ↑ http://www.heraldica.org/topics/france/frroyal.htm#sang Style of HSH and further information on Princes of the Blood - Other princes of the blood were only entitled to Most Serene Highness (Altesse Sérénissime) from 1651 to 1824, when they received the style of Royal Highness.
- ↑ Tables synchroniques de l'histoire de France, ou chronologie des princes