Louise Marie-Therese (The Black Nun of Moret)

Louise Marie-Therese also known as "The Black Nun of Moret" (16 November 1664 - 1732 in Moret-sur-Loing) - secret daughter of Maria Theresa of Spain with her black page boy "Augustin (Nabo)".

Life

She was born as "Marie Anne de France" at the Palais du Louvre Paris, she was the illegitimate daughter of Queen Marie-Thérèse d'Autriche (the wife of Louis XIV of France). Her father, called Augustin, had been a gift to the Queen given by François de Vendôme, duc de Beaufort on behalf of the King of Dahomey. Her death was reported on 26 December 1664, as a sham and was said to have been buried at the Royal Basilica of Saint Denis outside the capital. On that day she was secretly sent to Moret-sur-Loing and she become a nun. It was at the convent of Moret that she died in 1732, having outlived all of her siblings by her mother.

Further reading

*cite book|last=Van Sertima|first=Ivan|title=Black women in antiquity|publisher=Transaction publishers|date=1984|pages=141-144|isbn=0878559825|url=http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=mKGSlgrkF2AC&pg=PA143&lpg=PA143&dq=%22black+nun+of+moret%22&source=web&ots=wcELNZxhAY&sig=flfA8cEyewZ4TCIzbdRIGbuiORI&hl=en&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=1&ct=result#PPA141,M1|accessdate=2008-06-20

External links

* [http://www.princes-s.com/Black_nun_of_moret/portrait.html The Black Nun of Moret]
* [http://www.thepeerage.com/p22021.htm#i220201 Dates and information]

Ancestors

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1= 1. Louise Marie-Thérèse, the Black Nun of Moret
2= 2. Augustin (Nabo)
3= 3. Maria Theresa of Spain
4= 4. -
5= 5. -
6= 6. Philip IV of Spain
7= 7. Elisabeth of Bourbon
8= 8. -
9= 9. -
10= 10. -
11= 11. -
12= 12. Philip III of Spain
13= 13. Margaret of Austria
14= 14. Henry IV of France
15= 15. Marie de' Medici
16= 16. -
17= 17. -
18= 18. -
19= 19. -
20= 20. -
21= 21. -
22= 22. -
23= 23. -
24= 24. Philip II of Spain
25= 25. Anne of Austria
26= 26. Charles II of Austria
27= 27. Maria Anna of Bavaria
28= 28. Antoine of Navarre
29= 29. Jeanne III of Navarre
30= 30. Francesco I de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany
31= 31. Johanna of Austria