Louise de Lorraine, Duchess of Bouillon

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Louise de Lorraine
Charles Louis de Lorraine
MotherÉlisabeth de Roquelaure

Louise of Lorraine (Louise Henriette Gabrielle; 30 December 1718 – 5 September 1788) was a French noblewoman and member of the

Duchess of Bouillon. At court she was associated with the princesses combinées
.

Biography

Born to

Gaston Jean Baptiste Charles, was the husband of Marie Louise de Rohan,[1] future governess of Louis XVI and his siblings. Gaston died of Smallpox aged twenty two. Her younger brother was Camille, Prince of Marsan
.

She was known simply as Louise. Styled Mademoiselle de Marsan prior to her marriage, as a male line descendant of the House of Lorraine she was entitled to the style of Highness.

She was a

Lorraine. Remiremont had been closely related to the Lorraine's for centuries. She was nominated as Canoness
in 1733.

She was engaged to

Hôtel
of her younger brother, Louis Camille de Lorraine. Her husband was nine years younger than she.

The couple were the parents of four children, two of which survived infancy. At the death of her father in law Charles Godefroy de La Tour d'Auvergne, her husband became the Duke of Bouillon.

She died in at the Hôtel de Lordat in Paris aged 69 over the night of 4–5 September 1788. The year after her death, her husband married again; to Marie Françoise Henriette de Banastre, a girl some forty-seven years younger than he and a daughter of one of his footmen.

Her brother Camille, Prince of Marsan also died at the Hôtel de Bouillon in 1780.

She was buried at the Église Saint-Sulpice, Paris|Church of Saint-Sulpice in Paris on 9 September. At her husband's death in 1792, her son succeeded. Her son had no children and thus the

House of La Tour d'Auvergne
became extinct.

She has no known surviving descendants; the

Princes of Guéméné (members of the House of Rohan) claim the Duchy of Bouillon via Louise's sister in law Marie Louise de La Tour d'Auvergne who married the Prince of Guéméné and has descendants in modern Austria
.

Issue

  • Eleonore of Löwenstein-Wertheim-Rochefort
    ; no issue;
  • Charles Louis Godefroi de La Tour d'Auvergne, Prince of Auvergne (22 September 1749 – 23 October 1767) never married;
  • Louis Henri de La Tour d'Auvergne, Duke of Albret (20 February 1753 – 7 March 1753) died in infancy;
  • X de La Tour d'Auvergne (3 April 1756) stillborn daughter.

Ancestry

References and notes

  1. Jules, Prince de Soubise and Anne Julie de Melun and Governess of the Children of France
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