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For the Duchess of Montpensier, see Louise de Bourbon, Duchess of Montpensier.
Coat of arms of Louise de Bourbon as Duchess of Longueville

Louise de Bourbon (2 February 1603 – 9 September 1637) called Mademoiselle de Soissons was the wife of Henri d'Orléans, Duke of Longueville.[1] She was the mother of the famous Marie de Nemours.[2]

Life

The eldest daughter of Charles de Bourbon, Count of Soissons and Anne de Montafié, she was the older sister of the Princess of Carignano as well as the last Count of Soissons. Bought up at the Abbey of Fontevraud, she was placed in the care of her great-aunt Éléonore de Bourbon, one time Princess of Orange.[3]

Mademoiselle de Soissons married the duke of Longueville in Paris on 10 April 1617. The newly-weds had ancestors in common, their fathers both grandsons of François d'Orléans, Duke of Fronsac. The couple eventually had three children, only one of which would survive infancy. Dying in 1637, her husband married once more, another princess of the blood in the form of Mademoiselle de Bourbon, sister of the grand Condé.

Children

  1. Marie (1625–1707) married Henri II, Duke of Nemours.
  2. Louise (1626-1628).
  3. X (1634-1634).

Ancestry

Family of Louise de Bourbon
16. François, Count of Vendôme
8. Charles, Duke of Vendôme
17. Marie de Luxembourg
4. Louis, Prince of Condé
18. René, Duke of Alençon
9. Françoise d'Alençon
19. Margaret of Lorraine
2. Charles, Count of Soissons
20. Louis d'Orléans, Duke of Longueville
10. Francois d'Orléans, Marquis of Rothelin
21. Johanna of Baden-Hochberg, Countess of Neuchâtel
5. Françoise d'Orléans
22. Charles de Rohan, Prince of Soubise
11. Jacqueline de Rohan
23. Jeanne de Saint-Severin
(Giovanna Sanseverino in italian)
1. Louise de Bourbon
24. Ludovico de Montafia
12. Georges de Montafié
(Giorgio di Montafia in italian)
6. Ludovic de Montafié
13. Bianca Orsini
3. Anne de Montafié
28. Charles de Coësme
14. Louis de Coësme, seigneur de Lucé
29. Gabrielle d'Harcourt
7. Jeanne de Coësme
30. Adrien de Pisseleu
15. Anne de Pisseleu
31. Charlotte d'Ailly

References

  1. ^ Père Anselme, Histoire des Rois de France. Pp 48.
  2. ^ Père Anselme, Histoire des Rois de France, Pp 45.
  3. ^ Père Hilarion de Coste. Les Eloges et vies des reynes, princesses, dames et damoiselles illustres en piété, courage et doctrine, qui ont fleury de nostre temps, et du temps de nos pères. 1630. chap. 2. Pp. 175.

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