Princess Élisabeth Charlotte of Lorraine
Élisabeth Charlotte | |||||
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Abbess of Remiremont | |||||
Lorraine, France | |||||
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House | Lorraine | ||||
Father | Léopold de Lorraine | ||||
Mother | Élisabeth Charlotte d'Orléans |
Élisabeth Charlotte Gabrièle of Lorraine (21 October 1700 – 4 May 1711) was a Princess of Lorraine. She died of
Biography
Élisabeth Charlotte Gabrièle de Lorraine was born at the Ducal Palace of Lorraine, in Nancy, the capital of the Duchy of Lorraine in which her father was the reigning Duke. Her mother was a member of the House of Bourbon, then ruling the Kingdom of France.
She was the couple's first daughter and second child, an older brother had been born the previous year.
Her father,
The princess died of smallpox at the Château de Lunéville ("country residence" of the Dukes of Lorraine) having passed the illness to her other brother, the Hereditary Prince of Lorraine and their younger sister Marie Gabrièle Charlotte. The three children died within seven days of each other. She was buried in the Ducal Crypt at the Church of Saint-François-des-Cordeliers, Nancy, France.
Her younger brother Francis Stephen became the Holy Roman Emperor. Her youngest sister, Anne Charlotte, whom she never met, was later Abbess of Remiremont. At the time of her death, her mother was pregnant with a future Queen of Sardinia.
Ancestry
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References and notes
- ^ a b c Christensen, Martin K.I. "Women in Power 1700-1740". Retrieved 2010-03-02.