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Louise Élisabeth de Bourbon (22 November 1693–27 May 1775) was a daughter of Louis III de Bourbon, Prince of Condé, and his wife, Louise Françoise de Bourbon, légitimée de France, a legitimised daughter of King Louis XIV of France and his famous mistress, Madame de Montespan.
Louise-Élisabeth of France (Marie Louise-Élisabeth [a]; 14 August 1727 – 6 December 1759) was a French princess, a fille de France. She was the eldest daughter of King Louis XV and Queen Maria Leszczyńska, and the twin sister of Henriette of France, and she was the only one of his legitimate daughters who married.
Dec 21, 2021 · Louise Élisabeth of Orléans: The Duchess Who Did Whatever She Wanted. You rarely hear of women in history who didn’t give a crap and lived her life however they wanted. Juliane of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld did it, but before her, there was the equally amazing Louise Élisabeth of Orléans.
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- Princess of Asturias
- Queen of Spain
- Widow
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Louise Élisabeth d’Orléans was the fifth child and fourth daughter born to Philippe II, Duke of Orléans and his wife, Françoise Marie de Bourbon. Her mother, Françoise, was one of the legitimised daughters born to King Louis XIV of France and his royal mistress, Madame de Montespan. As a member of the reigning House of Bourbon, Louise Élisabeth was...
In November 1721, at the age of eleven, Élisabeth was married by proxy, in Paris. She and her sister Philippine Élisabeth soon left for Madrid. Despite an impertinent reception from the Spanish royal family, primarily by Elisabeth Farnese, the stepmother of her future husband, she married Louis of Spain on 20 January 1722 in Lerma. Her dowry contai...
On 15 January 1724, the emotionally unstable Philip V abdicated the throne in favour of his eldest son, who then became King Louis of Spain. Élisabeth, upon her husband ascending the throne, became queen of Spain. After only seven months of reigning Louis succumbed due to smallpox. Because he died without an heir, his father ascended the throne onc...
After the death of her husband, she returned to France at the request of her mother, the Dowager Duchess of Orléans. She was obliged to live peacefully in Paris, away from the Court of her young cousin Louis XV. As the widow of the King of Spain, she was to receive an annual pension of 600,000 livres from the state; however, Spain would not pay bec...
Bibliography 1. Pimodan (comte de), Louise-Élisabeth d'Orléans, reine d'Espagne 1709-1742, 393 p., Plon, Paris, 1928.
Louise Elisabeth de Bourbon (1727-59), daughter of Louis XV and Marie Leczczyñska, was the wife of the Infant Philip, Duke of Parma (1715-1765), son of Philip V of Spain.
Biography. Eldest daughter of Louis XV and Marie Leszczynska (she had a twin sister, Henriette, who is considered the youngest); in the French court she was known as Madame Royale, Madame Première (her twin sister was Madame Seconde), Madame Élisabeth and, more informally, Babette; on 25 October 1739 she married Philip, younger son of Philip ...
Jul 21, 2020 · Louise Élisabeth de France (Marie Louise Élisabeth; 14 August 1727 – 6 December 1759) was the eldest daughter of King Louis XV of France and his Queen consort, Maria, and the elder twin sister of Anne Henriette de France. As the daughter of the king, she was a Daughter of France (fille de France).
