Marie de Bourbon, Countess of Soissons

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Marie de Bourbon
Bourbon-Condé
FatherCharles, Count of Soissons
MotherAnne, Countess of Clermont
SignatureMarie de Bourbon's signature

Marie de Bourbon (3 May 1606 – 3 June 1692) was the wife of

Countess of Soissons in her own right, passing the title down three generations of the House of Savoy
.

Biography

Marie de Bourbon, born at the

Abbey of Fontevraud in Anjou, she took the habit on 10 April 1610 aged just four.[2]

On 6 January 1625, Marie was married to Thomas Francis,

Louis II de Bourbon, Prince de Condé. He engaged the services of the distinguished grammarian and courtier Claude Favre de Vaugelas
as tutor for his children.

After Thomas, the senior branch of his descendants repatriated to Savoy, alternately marrying French, Italian and German princesses.

After the

princes étrangers in France rather than as princes du sang.[4]

At the death of her older brother

Countess of Soissons suo jure. She lived in her native France with her husband and resided at the Hôtel de Soissons where she was born. It was Marie who built the small Château de Bagnolet in Paris; at her death the building was acquired by the Ferme générale François Le Juge. In 1719 it became the property of Françoise Marie de Bourbon. Marie and her daughter helped to raise the famous soldier Prince Eugene of Savoy
. She died in Paris.

Issue

  1. Princess Cristine Charlotte of Savoy (1626).
  2. Princess Louise of Savoy (1627–1689) married in 1654 to Ferdinand Maximilian, Hereditary Prince of Baden-Baden.
  3. Emmanuel Philibert, Prince of Carignano (1628–1709) married Maria Angela Caterina d'Este[5]
  4. Prince Amedeo of Savoy (1629).
  5. Joseph Emmanuel, Count of Soissons (1631–1656).
  6. Olympia Mancini.[1]
  7. Prince Ferdinand of Savoy (1637).

Ancestors

References

  1. ^ a b c Pitts 2000, p. 271.
  2. ^ Alexandre, Jombert (1784). "L'Art de vérifier les dates des faits historiques". Googlebooks.org.
  3. ^ Spanheim 1973, p. 107.
  4. ^ Spanheim 1973, p. 323.
  5. ^ Orr 2004, p. 18.

Sources

  • Orr, Clarissa Campbell (2004). Queenship in Europe 1660-1815: The Role of the Consort. Cambridge University Press.
  • Pitts, Vincent Joseph (2000). La Grande Mademoiselle at the Court of France: 1627-1693. The Johns Hopkins University Press.
  • Spanheim, Ézéchiel (1973). Emile Bourgeois (ed.). Relation de la Cour de France. le Temps retrouvé (in French). Paris: Mercure de France. pp. 323, 107–108.
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