Elisabeth Therese of Lorraine
Elisabeth Therese of Lorraine | |
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Duchy of Lorraine | |
Died | 3 July 1741 Palace of Venaria, Turin | (aged 29)
Burial | 1786 |
Spouse |
Charles Emmanuel III of Sardinia (m. 1737) |
Issue Detail | |
House | Lorraine |
Father | Leopold, Duke of Lorraine |
Mother | Élisabeth Charlotte d'Orléans |
Elisabeth Therese of Lorraine (15 October 1711 – 3 July 1741) was
Early life (1711–1736)
Princess Elisabeth Therese was born on 15 October 1711 at the
During the coronation of Louis XV in October 1722, Elisabeth Therese, her mother, and her sisters Anne Charlotte and Marie Louise went to the French royal court. Elisabeth Therese's grandmother, Princess Palatine, found her three granddaughters very charming as well as attractive, though Anne Charlotte was deemed the most beautiful.
In the spring of 1725, the young French king, Louis XV, was fifteen and unmarried. He was engaged to Mariana Victoria of Spain, but the young princess was sent back to Spain because she was too young to conceive. As a result, Élisabeth Charlotte began negotiations to marry Elisabeth Therese to the king.[1] However, this was met with opposition from the king's prime minister, the Duke of Bourbon, who arranged for the king to marry an obscure Polish princess later that year. The Duke of Bourbon stated that marriages between kings of France and princesses of Lorraine always resulted in strife, and that the House of Lorraine was too closely related to the House of Habsburg, which would cause discontent and conflict within the French nobility.[2]
Her father died in 1729 amid negotiations regarding a marriage between the then seventeen-year-old Elisabeth Therese and her recently widowed cousin Louis, Duke of Orléans. He refused outright, much to the annoyance of her mother.[3] The match having come to nothing, her mother named her daughter the coadjutrice of Remiremont Abbey on 19 October 1734.[4] The Remiremont Abbey was closely associated with the House of Lorraine.
In 1736, her brother, the Duke of Lorraine, married
Queen of Sardinia (1737–1741)
She married the King of Sardinia
The couple married in person on 1 April 1737. Charles Emmanuel III was her half-first cousin, his mother being Anne Marie d'Orléans, her mother Élisabeth Charlotte's half-sister. The marriage would produce three children, but only one would live to adulthood. She and her husband arrived in Turin on 21 April.[6]
Death and burial
Elisabeth Therese died at the Palace of Venaria aged 29, having fallen ill with puerperal fever after childbirth.[7] She was buried in the Cathedral of Saint Giovanni Battista in Turin. She was moved to the Royal Basilica of Superga in 1786 by her stepson Victor Amadeus III.
Issue
- Prince Carlo Francesco of Savoy (Carlo Francesco Maria Augusto; 1 December 1738 – 25 March 1745) died in childhood.
- Princess Maria Vittoria of Savoy (Vittoria Margherita; 22 June 1740 – 14 July 1742) died in infancy.
- Princess Maria Anna of Savoy, no issue.
Ancestry
Ancestors of Elisabeth Therese of Lorraine Charlotte of Hesse-Kassel | |||||||||||||
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References and notes
- ^ a b Flantzer, Susan (19 June 2021). "Elisabeth Therese, Queen of Sardinia". Unofficial Royalty. Retrieved 4 October 2022.
- ^ de Goncourt, Edmond et Jules (1906). La duchesse de Châteauroux et ses soeurs. Paris, France (in French).
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- ^ Foucault 1791, p. 340.
- ^ Augustin 1757, pp. 70–309.
- ^ Calmet Augustin: Histoire de Lorraine...depuis l'entrée de Jules César dans les Gaules jusqu'à la cession de la Lorraine, arrivée en 1737, A. Leseure, 1757, p 309, 70
- ^ Foucault: Histoire de Léopold I, duc de Lorraine et de Bar, père de l'Empereur, Paris, 1791, p 340
- ^ Genealogie ascendante jusqu'au quatrieme degre inclusivement de tous les Rois et Princes de maisons souveraines de l'Europe actuellement vivans [Genealogy up to the fourth degree inclusive of all the Kings and Princes of sovereign houses of Europe currently living] (in French). Bourdeaux: Frederic Guillaume Birnstiel. 1768. p. 81.
Bibliography
- Augustin, Calmet (1757). Histoire de Lorraine...depuis l'entrée de Jules César dans les Gaules jusqu'à la cession de la Lorraine, arrivée en 1737 (in French). A. Leseure. pp. 70–309.
- Foucault (1791). Histoire de Léopold I, duc de Lorraine et de Bar, père de l'Empereur (in French). Paris. p. 340.
External links
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