Louise Henriette Françoise de Lorraine

Louise Henriette Françoise de Lorraine (1707 – 31 March 1737) was a French noblewoman and member of the House of Guise, a cadet branch of the House of Lorraine. She was the last wife of Emmanuel Théodose de La Tour d'Auvergne (1668–1730).

Biography

The eldest of four children, her other surviving sister Marie Elisabeth Sophie de Lorraine was the wife of Louis François Armand de Vignerot du Plessis. Prior to her marriage, she was styled as Mademoiselle de Guise.

A member of the House of Guise founded by Claude, Duke of Guise, she was a Princess of Lorraine as a patrilineal descendant of René II, Duke of Lorraine. At court, she, like his Lorraine family, held the rank of Foreign Prince, a rank which was below that of the immediate Royal Family and Princes of the Blood. This also allowed her the style of Her Highness.

Family relations included Emmanuel Maurice, Duke of Elbeuf, second cousin of her husband via Emmanuel Maurice's mother Élisabeth de La Tour d'Auvergne. Others included the Abbess of Remiremont, Princess of Epinoy and a Queen consort of Sardinia.

She was described as very pretty; rather tall than short; neither stout nor slender; an oval face; a broad forehead; black eyes and eyebrows; brown hair; very wide mouth and very red lips .

Married on 21 March 1725, the couple did not have a child until four years later. They had a daughter named Marie Sophie Charlotte who is an ancestor of the present Dukes of Mouchy, a cadet branch of the House of Noailles. Her husband died in 1730, leaving Louise Henriette Françoise a widow at the age of 23.

There are theories that the Duchess of Bouillon poisoned the famous contemporary actress Adrienne Lecouvreur, but scholars have not been able to confirm the accusation.

Louise Henriette Françoise later became the mistress of her stepson, Charles Godefroy de La Tour d'Auvergne, who was one year older than she was. Another lover was the Count of Clermont, a grandson of Louis XIV and Madame de Montespan through their daughter the Duchess of Bourbon.

She died in March 1737 at the age of roughly 30. Her brother cousin Gaston married Marie Louise de Rohan, sister of Charles, Prince of Soubise. Charles, in turn, was the husband of her stepdaughter Anne Marie Louise.

Issue

Marie Sophie Charlotte de La Tour d'Auvergne (20 December 1729–6 September 1763) married Charles Just de Beauvau, son of Marc de Beauvau, Prince of Beauvau and had issue. Present Duke of Noailles descends from her.

Ancestry

Ancestors of Louise Henriette Françoise de Lorraine

16. Charles de Lorraine, Duke of Elbeuf

8. François Louis de Lorraine, Count of Harcourt

17. Catherine Henriette de Bourbon, Légitimée de France

4. Alphonse Henri de Lorraine, Count of Harcourt

18. Henri François d'Ornano, Lord of Mazargues

9. Anne d'Ornano

19. Marguerite de Maubec-Montlaur

2. Anne Marie Joseph de Lorraine, Count of Harcourt

20. Georges de Brancas, Duke of Villars

10. Charles de Brancas, Count of Brancas

21. Julienne Hypolite d'Estrées

5. Françoise de Brancas

22. Mathieu Garnier

11. Suzanne Garnier

23. Louise Bazin

1. Louise Henriette Françoise de Lorraine

24. Pierre de Castille

12. Nicolas Jeannin de Castille, Marquis de Montjeu

25. Charlotte Jeannin

6. Gaspard Jeannin de Castille, Marquis de Montjeu

26. Gaspard de Fieubet, chevalier, seigneur de Caslaurt et Jaillac

13. Claude de Fieubet

27. Marie-Claude Ardier (or Aldier) de Beauregard

3. Marie Louise Christine/Chrétienne Jeannin de Castille, Marquise de Montjeu

28. Gaspard Dauvet, Count des Marets

14. Nicolas Dauvet, Count of Marets

29. Isabelle Brûlart

7. Louise Diane Dauvet

15. Christine de Lantage, Lady of Vitry-le-Croisé

References and notes

As the son of René II, Duke of Lorraine, he was given the Duchy of Guise as an appanage which was made a peerage by Francis I of France in 1528
Daughter of Frédéric Maurice de La Tour d'Auvergne
Collins, Charles W. (July 2009). Great Love Stories of the Theatre. BiblioBazaar. ISBN 9781113153418. Retrieved 2010-03-25. {{cite book}}: |work= ignored (help)
Commire, Anne; Klezmer, Deborah. "Lecouvreur, Adrienne (1690–1730)". Dictionary of Women Worldwide: 25,000 Women Through the Ages. Detroit: Yorkin Publications. Retrieved 4 April 2014.

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The generations start from the children of Réné II
2nd generation	Anne, Princess of Orange
3rd generation	Reneta, Duchess of Bavaria Dorothea, Duchess of Calenberg* Marie, Queen of Scotland Louise, Queen of France*
4th generation	Christine, Grand Duchess of Tuscany Antoinette, Duchess of Duchess of Jülich-Kleve-Berg Élisabeth, Electress Palatine Françoise, Duchess of Vendôme Catherine, Abbess of Remiremont* Louise Marguerite, Princess of Conti*
5th generation	Nicole, Duchess of Lorraine* Claude Françoise, Duchess of Lorraine Marguerite, Duchess of Orléans* Marie, Duchess of Guise*
6th generation	Anne Marie Thérèse, Abbess of Remiremont* Béatrice Hiéronyme, Abbess of Remiremont* Élisabeth, Princess of Epinoy* Marie, Princess of Monaco Charlotte, Mademoiselle d'Armagnac Suzanne Henriette, Duchess of Mantua
8th generation	Élisabeth Charlotte, Abbess of Remiremont* Élisabeth Thérèse, Queen of Sardinia* Anne Charlotte, Abbess of Remiremont* Louise Henriette Françoise, Duchess of Bouillon Élisabeth Sophie, Duchess of Richelieu Louise, Duchess of Bouillon
9th generation	Joséphine, Princess of Carignan
*died without issue

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