Louise de Bourbon

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. Brought 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 Henri II d'Orléans, 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 survived 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.

Ancestors of Louise de Bourbon

10. Francois d'Orléans, Marquis of Rothelin

21. Johanna of Baden-Hochberg, Countess of Neuchâtel

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

28. Charles de Coësme

14. Louis de Coësme, seigneur de Lucé

29. Gabrielle d'Harcourt

7. Jeanne de Coësme

30. Adrien de Pisseleu

31. Charlotte d'Ailly

^ Père Anselme, Histoire des Rois de France. Pp 48.
^ Père Anselme, Histoire des Rois de France, Pp 45.
^ 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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