A younger brother, Philippe, followed two years later. When his father died on May 14, 1643, 4-year-old Louis inherited the crown of a fractured, unstable and nearly insolvent France. After orchestrating the annulment of Louis XIII’s will, which had appointed a regency council to rule on...
Louis had one younger brother: Philippe I, Duke of Orléans(1640 – 1701) – married (1)Henrietta of England, had issue; (2)Elizabeth Charlotte of the Palatinate, had issue Louis as Dauphin, painted by Claude Deruet in 1643. source: Wikipedia At just four years old, he became King foll...
Louis and his family portrayed as Roman gods in a 1670 painting by Jean Nocret. L to R: Louis's aunt, Henriette-Marie; his brother, Philippe, duc d'Orléans; the Duke's daughter, Marie Louise d'Orléans, and wife, Henriette-Anne Stuart; the Queen-mother, Anne of Austria; three daugh...
keeping with the tradition of inter-marriages between the French and Spanish monarchies. She was the daughter ofKing Felipe III of SpainandMargaret of Austria. The couple was married by proxy on October 18, 1615, in Burgos, Spain. The same day, Louis’s sister Elisabeth married Anna’s bro...
Hyacinthe Rigau (1659–1743). The scene below however, was engraved by Charles Louis Simonneau (1645-1728), and was copied from a painting by Antoine Coypel(1661 – 1722) the official court painter of the King’s brother Philippe, Duke of Orléans. TheBritish Museum provides more information...
[27] Seeking to minimise future conflict between the two countries, in August 1679 Don Juan brokered a match between Charles and the 17-year-old Marie Louise of Orléans, eldest niece of Louis XIV and daughter of Philippe I, Duke of Orléans. Arranging the marriage was Don Juan's last ...
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Elisabeth Thérèse of Lorraine was born on October 15, 1711, at the Château de Lunéville, Duchy of Lorraine, now in France. Her parents were Leopold, Duke of Lorraine and Élisabeth Charlotte d’Orléans, the daughter of Philippe I, Duke of Orléans, brother of King Louis XIV of Franc...
Children: Louise Élisabeth, Duchess of Parma; Princess Henriette; Princess Marie Louise; Louis, Dauphin of France; Philippe, Duke of Anjou; Princess Marie Adélaïde; Princess Victoire; Princess Sophie; Princess Thérèse; Louise, Abbess of Saint Denis ...
When Alice married Prince Louis of Hesse, she was given away by her father’s brother, Ernst II., Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha. She had seven children, one of them, Alexandra Feodorovna, became the Tsarina of Russia. Alice is the the last Viceroy of India, maternal great-grandmother ...