Maria Teresa Felicitas d'Este
Maria Teresa Felicita d' Este (French Marie Thérèse Félicité d' Este, born October 6, 1726 Reggio Emilia, † April 30, 1754 in Paris) was an Italian princess of the house Este and by marriage Duchess of Penthièvre.
Life
Maria Teresa Felicita was the eldest daughter and third child born to the Duke of Modena, Francesco III. d' Este, and his wife, Charlotte de Bourbon- Orléans Aglaé, a subsidiary of the French regent Philippe II de Bourbon. She came on October 6, 1726 by 5 clock in the afternoon in Reggio Emilia to the world. Because her father in the War of Austrian Succession was on the side of France, he was expelled in June 1742 by the Austrians and Sardinians from his duchies. Therefore, Maria Teresa 's mother went with her daughters in 1743 returned to her family in France. Beginning of the year 1744 decided her mother to marry her to Louis Jean Marie de Bourbon, the eldest son of Louis -Alexandre de Bourbon, comte de Toulouse. This agreement came only against the resistance of the grandmother Maria Teresa, because Françoise Marie de Bourbon, the Dowager Duchess of Orléans, did not want to see married to a man who was not a prince of the blood her granddaughter. Unfortunately, because of the plan, the Italian princess to marry the Duke of Chartres, as well as the plan to give it to the Prince of Conti to the woman failed, Maria Teresa Felicita married at noon on December 29, 1744 in the chapel of Versailles in the presence of the entire royal family and the princes of the blood the 19 -year-old Duke of Penthièvre. Contemporaries described the blonde 18 -year-old as no beauty, but grown as large and having a beautiful complexion. The military events of the year were The primarily reason that the marriage took place only at that time, although they had already been decided at the beginning of the year. They delayed the wedding greatly. In addition, for the marriage a papal dispensation was necessary, because the couple had related to King Louis XIV and Madame de Montespan common ancestors and were in 2nd grade together. This marriage license arrived in Versailles until 20 December. The church ceremony was presided over by Cardinal Rohan, after it had been previously signed on the day as part of a solemn ceremony of marriage contract in the bull's eye hall (French Salon Œeil de boeuf ). Shortly after the marriage, Maria Teresa traveled with her husband likely to Rambouillet to the castle there.
The following ten -year marriage of the two was considered lucky, and the Duke of Penthièvre was his young wife her life devoted tenderly. After the birth of her first son, Louis Marie in January 1746 Maria Teresa followed her husband to Brittany, when he organized the defense against British troops in his capacity as governor of that province. In September 1747, while her husband was staying still in Brittany, took her to Paris to her second son Louis Alexandre was born. More pregnancies Duchess followed in almost yearly intervals. From the marriage seven children were born, of which only two survived to adulthood:
- Louis Marie ( * January 2, 1746, † November 15, 1749 ), Duke of Rambouillet
- Louis Alexandre ( born September 6, 1747 † May 6, 1768 ), Prince of Lamballe, ∞ 1767 Marie-Louise of Savoy - Carignan
- Jean Marie ( * November 17, 1748, † May 19, 1755 ), Duke of Châteauvillain
- Vincent Marie Louis (* June 22, 1750, † March 14, 1752 ), Count of Guingamp
- Marie Louise ( born October 18, 1751 † September 25, 1753 )
- Louise Marie Adélaïde (* March 13, 1753, † June 23, 1821 ), Mademoiselle de Penthièvre, ∞ 1769 Louis -Philippe II Joseph de Bourbon, Duke of Orléans
- Louis Marie Félicité ( born April 29, 1754 † April 30, 1754 )
In February 1754 Maria Teresa fell ill during her seventh pregnancy with pneumonia, and her condition deteriorated rapidly. The end of April was her son Louis Marie Félicité as born prematurely, and the Duchess died just twelve hours after birth on April 30 at 2 clock in the morning at the age of only 27 years. She was transferred together with the body of her youngest son, who died just a day after his birth on May 2 to Rambouillet, where she was buried the next day in the local church on the side of their other children. Her husband mourned greatly to his deceased wife and married, although only 29 years old, not again. After the sale Rambouillet to Louis XVI. he left the mortal remains of Maria Teresa in November 1783 patient transfer in the collegiate church of Saint- Étienne of the castle of Dreux. Only ten years later, the tombs were broken by revolutionaries and the corpses buried in a mass grave. They were later reburied in the built of Maria Teresa's daughter Louise Marie Adélaïde Chapelle royale de Dreux.