Anne Marie d'Orléans
Anne Marie d' Orléans ( born August 27, 1669 Castle Saint-Cloud; † August 26, 1728 in Turin), known during her youth Mademoiselle de Valois, was a member of the French royal family of the House of Bourbon - Orléans. By marriage with Victor Amadeus II of Savoy, she was Duchess of Savoy, 1713-1720 Queen of Sicily and then Queen of Sardinia.
Her stepmother Liselotte of the Palatinate described Anne Marie in her letters as " a right tugendtsame fürstin that hatt much meritten ". In its 44 years -long marriage she put her own needs always behind her husband. Even the twelve-year extramarital affair of her husband with Jeanne Baptiste d' Albert de Luynes, Countess of Verrua, she learned to accept without a murmur.
Life
Anne Marie was the third daughter of the Duke Philippe I d'Orléans and Henrietta Anne Stuart his first wife, youngest daughter of King Charles I, in the castle of Saint -Cloud to the world. Your baptism was on April 8, 1670 in the chapel of the Palais Royal in Paris. Anne Marie was not even a year old when she lost her mother. Her father then went for political reasons in 1671 a second marriage with Elizabeth Charlotte of the Palatinate, daughter of the Elector Karl Ludwig I., a. The stepmother took care catered to Anne Marie and her older sister Marie Louise, as if it were her own daughters. Under Elisabeth Charlotte's care and the uncle, King Louis XIV, Anne Marie received by her governess, the Marquise de Clérambault, the then customary for royal houses courtly education of girls. It included travel, especially in the territory, as well as languages , fine arts, horse riding, needle work, singing, etiquette, dance or genealogy. From her older sister until then almost inseparable, it hit the ten- year-old Anne Marie 1679 very hard when she was separated by Marie Louise's wedding to Charles II of Spain of her beloved sister.
Anne Marie leaned contradiction of reason of state and the will of her uncle, when he arranged a marriage with Duke Victor Amadeus II of Savoy for them. The connection should work more closely bind the duchy to the French crown and the French plans. The fact that the 18 -year-old groom initially balked at this marriage and gave his consent only after an extremely long cooling-off period, shows very clearly that it was a marriage that was closed purely political calculation. The Gazette de France announced the planned connection of the two on January 28, 1684.
At the age of 14 years, Anne Marie was married on April 10, 1684 in the chapel of the Palace of Versailles by procurationem. The groom took in passing through the Cardinal Emmanuel Théodose de la Tour d'Auvergne ceremony Anne Marie's cousin, the young Duke of Maine, after the day before completed the official engagement ceremony and the marriage contract had been signed. In this, among other things, the stately dowry of the young bride had been committed. It consisted of 900,000 livres, which contributed to her royal uncle, and jewelry worth 60,000 livres from the possession of her father. These Annemarie 240,000 livres received from the dowry of their mother. In return, they pledged to waive any claims against her father and to possible rights of inheritance of her mother. On the part of the House of Savoy, the young bride wedding gifts received totaling 220,000 livres, including jewelry, which had a value of 80,000 livres alone.
Immediately after the wedding ceremony traveled Anne Marie, accompanied by selected honors of the French court, including Anne de Lorraine, princesse de Lille Bonne, and Charlotte de Mornay, widowed Countess of Grancey, in the direction of Savoy. On May 6, they arrived in Le Pont -de- Beauvoisin, a small town on the river Guiers, which constitutes the boundary between the Dauphiné and the Duchy of Savoy region. There she met her husband for the first time in person. That same day, the couple went on to Chambery. In the chapel of the castle there was the actual wedding ceremony the two by Étienne Le Camus, bishop of Grenoble, instead.
The marriage produced six children:
- Maria Adelaide (1685-1712), ∞ 1697 Louis de Bourbon, dauphin de Viennois, duc de Bourgogne
- Maria Anna (1687-1690)
- Maria Luisa Gabriella (1688-1715), ∞ 1701 King Philip V of Spain
- Victor Amadeus (1699-1715), Prince of Piedmont
- Charles Emmanuel III. (1701-1773), King of Sardinia
- Emmanuel Philibert (* / † 1705), Duke of Chablais
Anne Marie died at half past seven in the morning on August 26, 1728 in Turin, one day before her 60th birthday. Her grave is in the Superga near Turin.