Louise de Bourbon, Duchess of Montpensier
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Louise de Bourbon | |
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,_princesse_de_la_Roche-sur-Yon.jpg) Louise de Bourbon, Duchess of Montpensier, copy by Joseph Albrier, 1840, of a 17th-century anonymous portrait | |
| Born | 1482 |
| Died | 15 July 1561 |
| Noble family | Bourbon-Montpensier |
| Spouse(s) | Andre III de Chauvigny Louis, Prince of La Roche-sur-Yon |
| Father | Gilbert, Count of Montpensier |
| Mother | Clara Gonzaga |
Louise de Bourbon (1482 – 15 July 1561) was the
Inheritance
The eldest daughter of
By dint of her three brothers having died childless, Louise became the heiress to the county of Montpensier and the dauphinate of Auvergne. The estates, however, had been sequestered by the French King
Marriages and children
In 1499, Louise married her first husband, Andre III de Chauvigny, prince of Deols and vicomte de Brosse (d.1503). The marriage was childless.
She married secondly on 21 March 1504, her cousin Louis de Bourbon, Prince of La Roche-sur-Yon, by whom she had three children:
- Suzanne de Bourbon (1508–1570), married Claude de Rieux, Count of Harcoute and Aumale, by whom she had issue.
- Charlotte de Bourbon. His second wife was Catherine of Lorraine.
- Philippe de Montespédon, Dame de Beaupreau (died 1575), by whom he had a son, Henri, and a daughter, Jeanne.
Louise died on 5 July 1561. She was buried at Sainte-Chapelle, Champigny-sur-Veude in Touraine. Her eldest son Louis succeeded her as Duke of Montpensier.
Through her daughter Suzanne, Louise was an ancestress of King
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