- Marie Charlotte de La Tour d'Auvergne
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Marie Charlotte Princess of Beauvau Marie Charlotte by Nattier Spouse Charles Juste de Beauvau Issue Louise, Duchess of Mouchy Full name Marie Sophie Charlotte de La Tour d'Auvergne Father Emmanuel Théodose de La Tour d'Auvergne Mother Louise Henriette Françoise de Lorraine Born 20 December 1729
Hôtel de Bouillon, Paris, FranceDied 6 September 1763 (aged 33)
Hôtel de Beauvau-Craon, Lunéville, Lorraine, FranceMarie Charlotte de La Tour d'Auvergne (Marie Sophie Charlotte; 20 December 1729 – 6 September 1763.[1]) was a French noblewoman and member of the House of La Tour d'Auvergne. Married into the House of Beauvau, a powerful family originating in Anjou, she had a daughter aged twenty and died of smallpox[2] at the age of thirty three. The present Duke of Mouchy line of the Noailles family are descended from her and her husband.[1]
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Biography
Born at the Hôtel de Bouillon in Paris[3] to Emmanuel Théodose de La Tour d'Auvergne (1668–1730), Duke of Bouillon and his last wife Louise Henriette Françoise de Lorraine, she was the couple's only child. Her mother was a daughter of Joseph de Lorraine, Count of Harcourt.
Her father was a son of Godefroy Maurice de La Tour d'Auvergne and Marie Anne Mancini, the latter was a niece of Cardinal Mazarin and a famous and scandalous hostess in her day.
Marie Charlotte was styled as Mademoiselle de Château-Thierry from birth. When her older half sister Anne Marie Louise, Mademoiselle de Bouillon was married to Charles de Rohan, Prince of Soubise in 1734, as the most senior unmarried princess of the La Tour d'Auvergne family, she was styled as Mademoiselle de Bouillon till her marriage.
A first cousin included Antoine de Vignerot du Plessis, son of her aunt Élisabeth Sophie de Lorraine and the famous womaniser Armand de Vignerot du Plessis, duc de Richelieu.
Her father died in 1730,[1] leaving her mother a widow at twenty-three. Her mother died in 1737.[1] As such she became the ward of her uncle Louis Henri, known as the comte d'Évreux.
In 1741, her maternal uncle the Prince of Harcourt[4] was a prosed candidate for the 12 year old (1741). Again, the marriage never materialised and the Prince of Harcourt died in 1747 childless.
She married Charles Juste de Beauvau, a member of the wealthy Beauvau family of Lorraine. They were married on 3 April 1745.[1] Her sister in law (her husbands sister) was the famous marquise de Boufflers. Her daughter married Philippe Louis de Noailles, son of Philippe de Noailles and Anne d'Arpajon, lady in waiting to Marie Antoinette victim of the revolution.[1]
She died of Smallpox[2] at the Hôtel de Beauvau-Craon, her husbands town house in Lunéville, Lorraine. She and her daughter were heading to Paris from Lorraine when Marie Charlotte caught the illness. Notwithstanding the utmost care,[2] she succumbed to the illness; at the time she was arranging the proposed marriage between her daughter Louise and Armand Louis de Gontaut, the Duke of Lauzun.
Lauzun and Louise never married and were both greatly affected by the death of Marie Charlotte – the two were in love – and with the death of Marie Charlotte, Lauzun lost his most valuable ally,[2] regarding a union with Louise and himself. Her daughter was placed in the Abbey of Port Royal[2] in Paris where she remained till her marriage in 1767.
After her death, her husband married again in 1764 to Marie Charlotte Sylvie de Rohan-Chabot, a cousin of the Prince of Soubise.[5] Marie Charlotte Sylvie had had a liaison which had began in 1750. The couple had no issue.[1]
Issue
- Philippe Louis de Noailles, prince de Poix, later Duke of Mouchy and had issue.
Ancestry
Ancestors of Marie Charlotte de La Tour d'Auvergne 16. Henri de La Tour d'Auvergne, Duke of Bouillon 8. Frédéric Maurice de La Tour d'Auvergne, Duke of Bouillon 17. Countess Elisabeth of Nassau 4. Godefroy Maurice de La Tour d'Auvergne, Duke of Bouillon 18. Frederik, Count van den Bergh 9. Countess Eleonora van den Bergh 19. Françoise de Ravenel 2. Emmanuel Théodose de La Tour d'Auvergne, Duke of Bouillon 20. Pietro Mazzarini 10. Michele Lorenzo Mancini 21. Ortensia Bufalini 5. Marie Anne Mancini 22. Paolo Mancini 11. Girolama Mazzarini 23. Vittoria Capocci 1. Marie Charlotte de La Tour d'Auvergne 24. François Louis de Lorraine, Count of Harcourt 12. Alphonse Henri de Lorraine, Count of Harcourt 25. Anne d'Ornano 6. Joseph, Count of Harcourt 26. Charles de Brancas, Count of Brancas 13. Françoise de Brancas 27. Suzanne Garnier 3. Louise Henriette Françoise de Lorraine 28. Nicolas Jeannin de Castille, Marquis de Montjeu 14. Gaspard Jeannin de Castille, Marquis de Montjeu 29. Claude de Fieubet 7. Marie Jeannin de Castille, Marquise de Montjeu 30. Nicolas Dauvet, Count of Marets 15. Louise Diane Dauvet 31. Christine de Lantage, Lady of Vitry-le-Croisé Titles, styles, honours and arms
Titles and styles
- 20 December 1729 – 29 December 1734 Her Highness Mademoiselle de Château-Thierry
- 29 December 1734 – 3 April 1745 Her Highness Mademoiselle de Bouillon
- 3 April 1745 – 6 September 1763 Her Highness the Princess of Beauvau
References and notes
- ^ a b c d e f g van de Pas, Leo. "Marie Charlotte de La Tour d'Auvergne". Genealogics .org. http://www.genealogics.org/getperson.php?personID=I00010750&tree=LEO. Retrieved 2010-03-16.
- ^ a b c d e Maugras, Gaston. The Duc de Lauzun and the Court of Louis XV. http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=j4qHyeUPhbMC&pg=RA1-PA66&dq=princesse+de+beauvau&lr=&as_brr=3&ei=TrHxS4W6HaquzASc16CzCg&cd=11#v=onepage&q=princesse%20de%20beauvau&f=false. Retrieved 2010-03-25.
- ^ Previous Hôtel de la Bazinière then bought by her grand father Godefroy Maurice de La Tour d'Auvergne and an extension of the present École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts
- ^ d'Albert Luynes, Charles Philippe. Mémoires du duc de Luynes sur la cour de Louis XV (1735-1758) By Charles Philippe d'Albert de Luynes. http://books.google.com/books?id=7pY9AAAAYAAJ&pg=PA495&dq=Marie+Charlotte+Sobieska&lr=&as_brr=3&ei=ml3PS_y-BqiqzQSu9q2KAw&cd=11#v=onepage&q=Marie%20Charlotte%20Sobieska&f=false. Retrieved 2010-04-21.
- ^ Soubise was also Marie Charlotte's brother in law, having married her oldr half sister Anne Marie Louise
See also
The generations start from the Henri de La Tour d'Auvergne, first soveriegn Duke of Bouillon 1st Generation Louise · Marie, Duchess of Thouars · Juliane Catherine, Countess of Roucy · Élisabeth, Marquise of Duras · Henriette Catherine, Marquise of La Moussaye · Charlotte2nd Generation Élisabeth, Duchess of Elbeuf · Louise Charlotte · Amalie · Hypolite · Mauricette Febronie, Landgravine of Leuchtenberg · Élisabeth Eléonore · Louise Emilie · Marie Anne · Therese Henriette3rd Generation Marie Élisabeth · Louise Julie, Princess of Montbazon · Maria Henriette, Hereditary Princess of Sulzbach4th Generation Armande, Princess of Epinoy · Marie Madeleine · Marie Hortense Victoire, Duchess of Thouars · Anne Marie Louise, Princess of Soubise · Marie Charlotte, Princess of Beauvau · Marie Louise Adelaïde5th Generation 6th Generation noneCategories:- 1729 births
- 1763 deaths
- House of la Tour d'Auvergne
- French Roman Catholics
- 18th-century French people
- French nobility
- Beauvau family
- People from Paris
- Deaths from smallpox
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