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Élisabeth Charlotte
Abbess of Remiremont
Born	(1700-10-21)21 October 1700 Ducal Palace of Nancy, Lorraine
Died	4 May 1711(1711-05-04) (aged 10) Château de Lunéville, Lorraine
Burial	Église Saint-François-des-Cordeliers, Nancy, Lorraine, France
Names Élisabeth Charlotte Gabrièle de Lorraine
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 smallpox aged 10. She was the Titular Abbess of Remiremont.

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, Leopold, Duke of Lorraine, had wanted her to become the Abbess of the prestigious abbey at Remiremont, a Benedictine abbey near Remiremont, Vosges. The abbey had been closely associated with the House of Lorraine, many of its abbesses being members of the Lorraine family. Her father pressed the then abbess, Dorothea Maria of Salm to press the Professors in Sorbonne, the historic University of Paris in Paris. Louis XIV, her mother's uncle, instead imposed Élisabeth Charlotte as sovereign of the territory. Despite this, the professors did not reply before her death aged 10.

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

References and notes

1. ^ Christensen, Martin K.I. "Women in Power 1700-1740". Retrieved 2010-03-02.

v t e Princesses of Lorraine
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

• 1700 births
• 1711 deaths
• Deaths from smallpox in France
• 18th-century French women
• Nobility from Nancy, France
• Abbesses of Remiremont
• Princesses of Lorraine
• Royalty who died as children