Maria Karolina Sobieska
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Żółkiew, Poland | |||||
| Burial | St. Kazimierz Church, Warsaw, Poland | ||||
| Spouse | Frédéric Casimir de La Tour d'Auvergne Charles Godefroy de La Tour d'Auvergne | ||||
| Issue Detail | Marie Louise, Princess of Guéméné Godefroy, Duke of Bouillon | ||||
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| House | Sobieski | ||||
| Father | James Louis Sobieski | ||||
| Mother | Hedwig Elisabeth of Neuburg | ||||
Maria Karolina Sobieska
Biography
Born to James Louis Sobieski and his wife Countess Palatine Hedwig Elisabeth of Neuburg, she was the couple's third daughter. Her younger sister Clementina, married the Jacobite pretender James Francis Edward Stuart.
Her paternal cousins included (children of her aunt Theresa Kunegunda Sobieska) Charles VII, Holy Roman Emperor and Clemens August of Bavaria, Archbishop of Cologne. Her maternal cousins included the famous Elisabeth Farnese, the future John V of Portugal as well as his consort Maria Anna of Austria.
Her childhood was spent in
Having travelled to Neuburg, her mother's birthplace, she embarked on an affair with Michał Kazimierz "Rybeńko" Radziwiłł,[2] a future Great Hetman of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania. She had wanted to marry him but her father would not allow the couple to elope. A depressed Charlotte wanted to leave the court and join a convent but Charles VI, Holy Roman Emperor (another first cousin), took it upon himself to find her a suitable husband.
The candidate was found in form of
At the French court, the
Frédéric Casimir died in Strassburg on 1 October 1723 leaving Charlotte a widow having been married for fourteen days. Seven months later, she married her dead husband's younger brother Charles Godefroy who was now prince de Turenne and heir to Bouillon. The new couple married on 2 April 1724 in Paris. The marriage produced two children; a daughter named Marie Louise (mistress of her first cousin Charles Edward Stuart, the Jacobite pretender) and a son named Godefroy who was the penultimate Duke of Bouillon.
The marriage was not happy. The couple divorced and Charlotte moved to Silesia. Moving again, this time to
Before her death, she designated her old lover, Michał Kazimierz "Rybeńko" Radziwiłł, as her heir. A part of her library was transmitted into the famous Załuski Library which was succeeded by today's National Library of Poland.
She was buried at the
Her husband outlived her, dying in 1771. Her son lived until 1792 and her daughter was executed in The Terror of the French Revolution.
Issue
Children with her second husband;
- Prince of Guéméné and had issue; was guillotined during the revolution; had a secret child with her cousin Charles Edward Stuart;
- Charles de Lorraine, Count of Marsan.
Ancestry
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References and notes
- ^ Sobieska is the proper spelling of her last name, for she was female
- ^ Michasieńko and Charlotta at the Wilanów Palace Museum Retrieved 9 November 2011
- ^ d'Albert Luynes, Charles Philippe (1860). Mémoires du duc de Luynes sur la cour de Louis XV (1735-1758) By Charles Philippe d'Albert de Luynes. Firmin Didot frères, fils et cie. p. 495. Retrieved 2010-04-21.
Marie Charlotte Sobieska.
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