Princess Joséphine of Lorraine

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Joséphine
Charles Emmanuel, Prince of Carignano
Names
French: Marie Joséphine Thérèse de Lorraine
Italian: Maria Giuseppina Teresa di Lorena
HouseLorraine
FatherLouis of Lorraine, Prince of Brionne
MotherLouise de Rohan

Joséphine de Lorraine (Marie Joséphine Thérèse; 26 August 1753 – 8 February 1797) was a princess of the

Princess of Carignan by virtue of marriage. She was the paternal grandmother of King Charles Albert of Sardinia, from whom the modern royal house of Italy
descends.

Biography

Joséphine with her sister Charlotte, c. 1770

Marie Joséphine Thérèse de Lorraine was the second of four children born to

Charles Eugène de Lorraine, prince de Lambesc (25 September 1751 – 11 November 1825), escorted his kinswoman Marie Antoinette
to France from Vienna in 1770, became Austrian ambassador to France, and would be the last male of the Guise branch of the House of Lorraine.

On 18 October 1768 Joséphine married

the tragic confidante of Queen Marie Antoinette.

Victor Emmanuel I of Sardinia
.

Issue

Ancestry

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