Wikipedia

Marie de Bourbon, Duchess of Montpensier

Marie de Bourbon(15 October 1605 – 4 June 1627),Duchess of Montpensier,Princess ofDombesandDuchess of Orléansby marriage, was a French noblewoman and one of the last members of theHouse of Bourbon-Montpensier.Her parents wereHenri de Bourbon,Duke of MontpensierandHenriette Catherine de Joyeuse,Duchess of Joyeusein her own right.[1]

Marie de Bourbon
Duchess of Orléans
Duchess of Montpensier
Born(1605-10-15)15 October 1605
Château de Gaillon,Gaillon,France
Died4 June 1627(1627-06-04)(aged 21)
Palais du Louvre,Paris,France
Burial
Royal Basilica of Saint Denis,Paris, France
SpouseGaston, Duke of Orléans
IssueAnne Marie Louise, Duchess of Montpensier
HouseBourbon-Montpensier
FatherHenri de Bourbon
MotherHenriette Catherine de Joyeuse

Biography

edit

Marie de Bourbon was born in thechâteau de Gaillon,in Gaillon (Euredepartment of France), in the former province ofNormandy.

Known asMademoiselle de Montpensierbefore her marriage, she was the Duke and Duchess of Montpensier's only child. At the age of two, she had been engaged to the second son ofHenry IV of France,Nicolas Henri de France, Duke of Orléans,but he died at the age of four in 1611. She was then betrothed to his brother,Gaston de France, Duke of Orléans,the younger brother of KingLouis XIII,and theheir presumptiveto thethroneof France.

At the death of her father, in 1608, Marie became the Duchess of Montpensier in her own right; the Duchy was one of the oldest in France having been elevated from a County in 1539. Marie was a descendant ofJohn II of France,of theHouse of Valoisand ofSaint Louis.

Because of the Montpensier fortune, of which Marie was the only heiress, and despite the aversion shown by Gaston toward this arranged marriage, Louis XIII andRichelieuwere determined the marriage would take place.

The wedding ceremony was celebrated inNantes,on 6 August 1626, in the presence of Louis XIII, his wife, QueenAnne of Austria,andMarie de' Medici,the Queen Mother. According to her daughter's biographer,Vita Sackville-West,quoting a member of her husband's household,A sadder wedding was never seen..[2]

From this union, the new ducal couple had one child:

Marie died on 4 June 1627 at thePalais du Louvrein Paris, at the age of twenty-one, shortly after the birth of her daughter who, as her only child, inherited her fortune and titles. She was buried at theRoyal Basilica of Saint Denis,north of Paris.

In a will intended to disinherit her niece,[3]Anne Marie Louise d'Orléans, Marie's half-sisterMarie de Lorraine,[4]) chose Charles François de Stainville as beneficiary in 1688; but on the urging of her heirs, the will was broken by theParlement of Parisin 1689.[5][6]

After the death of her daughter,La Grande Mademoiselle,in 1693, Marie's fortune was handed over toPhilippe de France,Louis XIV's younger and only brother.

Ancestors

edit

References

edit
  1. ^Gavard, Charles (1848).Galeries historiques du Palais de Versailles[Historical Galleries of the Palace of Versailles] (in French). Vol. 9. Impr. Royale. p.320.Retrieved27 May2018.
  2. ^Sackville-West, V..Daughter of France:The life of Anne Marie Louise d'Orléans, duchesse de Montpensier 1627-1693
  3. ^Patricia M. Ranum, "Mademoiselle de Guise, ou les défis de la quenouille,"XVIIeSiècle(1984), pp.221-32.
  4. ^Ranum,Portraits,pp. 449-54
  5. ^Marie de Guise (1615–1688), French Wikipedia.
  6. ^Counts and Dukes of Guise
  7. ^abcdefGavard (1848), pp.79–80
  8. ^abcdGavard (1848), pp.206–207
  9. ^abGavard (1848), p.223
  10. ^abcdGavard (1848), pp.18–19
  11. ^abCourcelles, Jean Baptiste Pierre Jullien de (1825)."De Chabannes".Histoire généalogique et héraldique des pairs de France(in French). Vol. 50. pp.69–70.
edit

Media related toMarie de Bourbon, Duchess of Montpensierat Wikimedia Commons

Retrieved from "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Marie_de_Bourbon,_Duchess_of_Montpensier&oldid=1257846005"