Maria Louise Adelaide of Orleans ( , - , ) - French princess from the Orleans house of the Bourbons , the third daughter of Philip II , Duke of Orleans, and Francoise Marie de Bourbon . Abbess Schell.
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Biography
After the marriage of her aunt, Elizabeth Charlotte of Bourbon-Orleans, Louise Adelaide became known at court as Mademoiselle de Chartres . In 1710, after the wedding of her older sister, Maria Louise Elizabeth, Mademoiselle d'Orleans began to turn to her.
She was very close with her sisters Maria Louise Elizabeth and Charlotte Aglaia . She was considered the most beautiful of the sisters. According to letters from her paternal grandmother, Elizabeth Charlotte of Pfalz , she was interested in theology and sciences, in particular surgery.
Louise Adelaide and her sister Charlotte Aglaya were brought up in Shell Abbey from early childhood. Their education was interrupted briefly in 1710 for the sake of the wedding of their older sister, Maria Louise Elizabeth. Louise Adelaide and Charlotte Aglaya carried her train [2] .
Possible marriage
Young Louise Adelaide was considered a possible bride for her cousin, Louis-Auguste de Bourbon , Prince Domb. He was the eldest son of her uncle, the Duke of Manx and his wife Anna Louise Benedict de Bourbon . As the eldest son, he was the heir to his father's great fortune. Louise Adelaide, very devout by nature, however, refused to marry him. The young prince asked for the hands of Charlotte Aglaya, who also refused him. Prince Domb and Louise Adelaide never married.
Another possible candidate was James Francis Edward Stewart , “Old Challenger” to the throne of England.
In 1716, Louise Adelaide wanted to marry the Chevalier de Saint-Maxent; he was one of the pages of the king, who saved her from an accident during the hunt, while receiving an almost fatal wound. Louise Adelaide begged her parents to give her permission to marry a young Chevalier, but they both refused. The Duchess of Orleans was terrified of the assumption of such hypergamy , and so harshly treated Louise Adelaide that she was forced to choose the path of a nun [2] . Her parents, like her paternal grandmother, were against it, but Louise Adelaide was adamant.
March 31, 1717 she tonsured a nun in the presence of her parents.
Abbess Schell
After the tonsure, Louise Adelaide took the name of the sister of Saint-Batilda and wore it for a year. In Schell, Louise Adelaide showed interest in Jansenism .
During the regency of Louis XV, Louise Adelaide was considered an outstanding religious figure in the country.
In 1719, she became an abbess in Schell and held this position until her death. She was also the abbess of the church of Val de Grace , built under the auspices of her paternal and maternal Anna Anna of Austria , wife of King Louis XIII . In July 1719, her sister Maria Louise Elizabeth died in childbirth, and in 1720 Charlotte Aglaya married and went to her husband in Modena. She insisted on saying goodbye to her sister before leaving.
While in Shell, Louise Adelaide greatly adorned the abbey: she ordered the cloisters to be re-tiled, the chapel to be restored, and a hospital and water supply system to be built so that the monastery and the whole city could receive clean drinking water. Louise Adelaide also allowed the sisters of the Never Abbey to build a house in the city to help educate local girls. [3]
She was known as Madame d'Orleans from 1719 to 1734 [4] . She died at the age of 44 from smallpox at the Madeleine de Traisnel monastery in Paris [4] .
Pedigree
Notes
- ↑ 1 2 The Peerage
- ↑ 1 2 The Orléans Daughter
- ↑ Louise Adélaïde d'Orléans (inaccessible link) . Date of treatment March 9, 2019. Archived July 14, 2012.
- ↑ 1 2 thePeerage.com - Person Page 4471
Literature
- Montgomery-Massingberd, Hugh. Burke's Royal Families of the World, Volume 1: Europe & Latin America. London, UK: Burke's Peerage Ltd, 1977 .