Élisabeth Charlotte d'Orléans

Élisabeth Charlotte de Bourbon- Orléans, called Mademoiselle de Chartres ( * September 13, 1676 in Saint-Cloud, † December 23, 1744 in COMMERCY ) was by marriage Duchess of Lorraine and from 1736 Princess of COMMERCY.

Life

Élisabeth Charlotte was the only daughter of Duke Philip I of Orléans with his second wife Princess Elisabeth Charlotte ( Liselotte ), daughter of the Elector Karl Ludwig I. of the Palatinate.

They married on October 13, 1698 in Fontainebleau Duke Leopold Joseph ( 1679-1729 ), son of Charles V of Lorraine and his wife Archduchess Eleonore Maria Josepha, daughter of the German - Roman Emperor Ferdinand III .. The marriage went thirteen children were born, but most died early as a result of smallpox; only four survived to adulthood:

• Franz Stephan (1708-1765), later emperor

• Elisabeth Therese (1711-1741)

• Karl Alexander Emanuel (1712-1780)

• Anna Charlotte (1714-1773), Abbess of Remiremont and Sainte- Waudru in Mons, Koadjutorin in Essen and Thorn ( Limburg)

After initially very happy married Elisabeth Charlotte tended soon to obesity and her husband turned to his mistress Madame de Beauvau - Craon to. On a trip to Paris, where the couple the title " Royal Highness " was granted by the King, Elisabeth Charlotte was shocked by the moral squalor of the court. Duchess Elisabeth Charlotte had to take over the regency under difficult conditions several times after her husband's death († 1729 ). 1736 she was by her cousin, King Louis XV. appointed by France for the sovereign Princess of COMMERCY. As the mother of the future Emperor Francis I. It was the common ancestor of all future Habsburgs to the present, since all Habsburg lines of Francis I and his wife descended. These include the French monarch, Marie Antoinette and Marie -Louise of Austria.

Antoine de Bourbon, duc de Vendôme (1518-1562) ∞ Johanna III. of Navarre (1528-1572)

Francesco I de ' Medici (1541-1587) ∞ Johanna of Austria (1547-1578)

Philip II of Spain (1527-1598) ∞ Anne of Austria (1549-1580)

Charles II of Austria (1540-1590) ∞ Maria Anna of Bavaria (1551-1608)

Frederick IV of the Palatinate (1574-1610) ∞ Louise Juliana of Orange- Nassau (1576-1644)

James I of England (1566-1625) ∞ Anne of Denmark and Norway (1574-1619)

Moritz of Hesse- Kassel (1572-1632) ∞ Agnes of Solms- Laubach (1578-1602)

Philipp Ludwig II of Hanau- coins mountain (1576-1612) ∞ Catherine Belgica of Orange- Nassau (1578-1648)

Henry IV of France (1553-1610) ∞ Maria de ' Medici (1575-1642)

Philip III. from Spain (1578-1621) ∞ Margaret of Austria (1584-1611)

Frederick V of the Palatinate (1596-1632) ∞ Elizabeth Stuart (1596-1662)

William V of Hesse -Kassel (1602-1637) ∞ Amalie Elisabeth of Hanau- coins mountain (1602-1651)

Louis XIII. of France (1601-1643) ∞ Anne of Austria (1601-1666)

Charles I Louis of the Palatinate (1617-1680) ∞ Charlotte of Hesse- Kassel (1627-1686)

Philippe I de Bourbon, duc d' Orléans (1640-1701) ∞ Liselotte of the Palatinate (1652-1722)

Élisabeth Charlotte de Bourbon- Orléans