Louis Marie, Duke of Rambouillet

Louis
Duke of Rambouillet
Born	2 January 1746 Palace of Versailles, France
Died	13 November 1749 (aged 3) Palace of Versailles, France
Burial	Royal Chapel, Dreux, France
Full name Louis Marie de Bourbon
House	House of Bourbon
Father	Louis Jean Marie de Bourbon, Duke of Penthièvre
Mother	Maria Theresa Felicitas of Modena
Religion	Roman Catholicism

Louis Marie de Bourbon, Duke of Rambouillet (2 January 1746 – 13 November 1749) was a French prince who died before his fourth birthday. He was never in the line of succession to the France's throne because he belonged to the illegitimate Bourbon-Penthièvre branch of the royal dynasty through the liaison of Louis XIV with a mistress. He was known as the Duc de Rambouillet.

Biography

He was the first born son of Louis de Bourbon, Duc de Penthièvre and his wife, Princess Maria Teresa of Modena. His paternal grandfather, Louis-Alexandre de Bourbon, comte de Toulouse, was one of the many children that Madame de Montespan presented to the Sun King during the latter's marriage to the Queen. He was born at Versailles in the suite once occupied by Mme de Montespan, and later by the Penthièvres from 1744 till 1752.^[1] Louis was accorded the title Duke of Rambouillet from birth, a dukedom conferred upon his grandfather Toulouse in 1711.

As a member of a legitimised branch of the royal House of Bourbon, he ranked below the true princes du sang but above the princes éetrangers and the ducal peers. Louis' father the Duc de Pentièvre was the greatest landowner in France and had one of the largest fortunes in Europe, having added to his own inheritance the fortune of his paternal uncle Louis-Auguste de Bourbon, duc du Maine.

Louis Marie died at the Versailles at the age of 3. Buried at the chapel at the Château de Rambouillet, he was later moved by his posthumous sister, Louise Marie Adélaïde de Bourbon (wife of the future Philippe Égalité), to the Chapelle royale de Dreux.

Ancestry

Ancestors of Louis Marie, Duke of Rambouillet

16. Louis XIII of France               8. Louis XIV of France                       17. Anne of Austria               4. Louis-Alexandre de Bourbon, comte de Toulouse                             18. Gabriel de Rochechouart, duc de Mortemart               9. Françoise-Athénaïs de Rochechouart, marquise de Montespan                       19. Diane de Grandseigne               2. Louis Jean Marie de Bourbon, duc de Penthièvre                                   20. Anne de Noailles, duc de Noailles               10. Anne Jules de Noailles, duc de Noailles                       21. Louise Boyer               5. Marie Victoire de Noailles                             22. Ambroise-François, duc de Bournonville               11. Marie-Françoise de Bournonville                       23. Lucrèce Françoise de La Vieuville               1.Louis Marie de Bourbon                                         24. Francesco I d'Este               12. Rinaldo III, Duke of Modena                       25. Lucrezia Barberini               6. Francesco III d'Este, Duke of Modena                             26. John Frederick, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg               13. Charlotte Felicity of Brunswick                       27. Benedicta-Henrietta of the Palatinate               3. Princess Maria Teresa Felicitas of Modena                                   28. Philippe de France, Duke of Orléans               14. Philippe II, Duke of Orléans                       29. Princess Palatine Elisabeth Charlotte               7. Charlotte Aglaé d'Orléans                             30. Louis XIV of France =8               15. Françoise-Marie de Bourbon                       31. Françoise-Athénaïs de Rochechouart, marquise de Montespan =9

Titles, styles, honours and arms

Titles and styles

• 2 January 1746 – 13 November 1749 Louis Marie de Bourbon, Monsieur le duc de Rambouillet

References and notes

1. Chateau Versailles

See also