Louis d'Orléans, Duke of Orléans

Louis I, Duke of Orléans (French Louis de Bourbon, duc d' Orléans; * August 4, 1703 in Versailles, † February 4, 1752 in Paris), also known as Louis d' Orléans, was a member of the French royal family from the House of Bourbon - Orléans.

Life

Duke Ludwig was the only legitimate son of Duke Philip II of Orléans, Regent of France (1715-1723), and Françoise Marie de Bourbon, thus grandson of Philip I of Orléans, Liselotte of the Palatinate and King Louis XIV after the death of his father in 1723 he succeeded him as Duke of Orléans, Duke of Nemours.

Ludwig was born in Versailles and received the title of Duke of Chartres. A devout, charitable and cultured prince, he took little interest in the politics of his time; only its hostility to the Cardinal Guillaume Dubois in 1723 is striking.

1730 saw Cardinal André- Hercule de Fleury for Duke Ludwig dismissal from the position of general of infantry, a post he had held for nine years. After his retirement from public life he was mainly concerned with the translation of the Psalms and Epistles of Paul.

1723 he succeeds his father as Duke of Orléans and eventually died at the Abbey of St. Genevieve in Paris.

Progeny

He and his wife Auguste Marie Johanna of Baden -Baden, daughter of Margrave Ludwig Wilhelm, Margrave Louis, he had two children:

• Louis- Philippe I ( born May 12, 1725 † November 18, 1785 ); He succeeded his father as Duke of Orléans to
• Louise Marie d' Orléans ( * August 5, 1726, † May 14 1728 )