Princess Louise of Savoy
Louise Christine of Savoy - Carignan (French Louise de Savoie - Carignan Christine, born August 1, 1627 Paris, † July 7, 1689 in Paris) was a Savoyard princess and by marriage Margravine of Baden -Baden. Their refusal, the unloved husband from chic Paris to follow in the comparatively provincial seemingly Baden -Baden, caused a scandal at the time and for corresponding talk at all European courts.
Life
Christine Louise was the eldest child of Thomas Francis of Savoy, Prince of Carignan, and Marie de Bourbon- Condé (1606-1692), Countess of Soissons, in Paris to the world. Through her mother she was a distant relative of the royal family, her brother Eugene Maurice of Savoy - Carignan was the father of the famous Prince Eugene. As Luise Christine was of marriageable age, came to the mediation of the French king Louis XIV, a marriage agreement between the House of Savoy - Carignan and the margrave's House Baden concluded: Luise Christine was on 15 March 1653 in Baden heir Ferdinand Maximilian of Baden -Baden engaged. The signing of the marriage contract took place with great pomp in the Louvre in Paris. The dowry of the Savoyard bride was handsomely: the French royal house gave 100,000 livres, the bride's father came another 600,000. Added to this was more valuable dowry worth 15,000 scudi. The actual marriage took place about a year later on March 15, 1654 held by procurationem in the Oratory of the Hôtel de Soissons. The groom was of Luise Christine's brother Eugen Moritz, because Prince Ferdinand Maximilian came only in June of the year in Paris.
13 months after the marriage was on April 8, 1655, the common couple's son, Ludwig Wilhelm of Baden, to the world. His godfather was Louis XIV, however, purely closed the politically expedient marriage of the two new parents turned out to be not particularly happy. Christine Louise was strongly under the influence of her mother, who could not stand the selected by the king 's son, and so the young mother, Paris refused to leave, to travel with her husband to his home. Therefore Ferdinand Maximilian left after a heated argument with his wife and mother-in France to Baden without his wife, but he took the three-month son with him. He had to take him to Baden -Baden, where the young Ludwig Wilhelm grew up without his mother. In its place, the second wife of his grandfather, the Countess Maria Magdalena of Oettingen occurred. His father warned him in a letter urgently " Flee like the plague, a marrying of the French ladies: do you think otherwise your whole life no peace and untergräbst the peace of your home. Believe me this, my dear child, and let you serve your own mother as a cautionary tale: who told you after that they at the court have the best minds of all, and yet it has seduced so badly by her mother and other people and their can make essential perverted. "
Luise Christine continued to live at the French court. She was maid of honor of the Queen Mother Anne of Austria, where he held the office of dame du palais, for which she received an annual pension of 180,000 livres. 1668 but fell out of favor, and she was awarded the Royal Courts prohibited. On 8 October of the following year her husband died, but Luise Christine took the news of the death of Ferdinand Maximilian with obvious indifference towards. However, when they, against the express wish of the king supported the marriage of her younger brother Emmanuel -Philibert of Savoy - Carignan with Maria Angela Caterina d' Este in 1684, it was completely banished from court and sent into exile in Rennes. Louis XIV had married Emmanuel Philibert rather than the prince of Carignan with a French nobleman. The banishment was annulled four years later again, so Christine Louise was allowed to return to Paris in July 1688. She died at the age of 61 years on July 7, 1689 and was buried in the Carthusian monastery of Aubevoye.