Louis-Joseph, Dauphin of France

Louis-Joseph Xavier Francois, Dauphin of France (October 22 1781–June 4 1789) was the second child and first son of King Louis XVI of France and Marie Antoinette of Austria. As the heir apparent to the French throne, he was called the "Dauphin". As the eldest son of the king, he was a Fils de France.

A sweet-natured child, Louis-Joseph died at the age of seven of "consumption" (tuberculosis). On his death the title of "Dauphin" passed to his younger brother Louis-Charles, Duke of Normandy (1785–1795), who would survive his father and die in prison at the age of ten.

Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, is named for him ("Louis-Joseph, Dauphin of France"). The Pennsylvania legislature, meeting in Philadelphia in 1785, to thank France for helping America win her independence from Great Britain, named the newly formed county, "Dauphin", northwest of Lancaster and north of York, in which Harrisburg is located.

Ancestry

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1= 1. Louis-Joseph, Dauphin of France
2= 2. Louis XVI of France
3= 3. Maria Antonia of Austria
(Marie Antoinette)
4= 4. Louis, Dauphin of France (1729–65)
5= 5. Duchess Marie-Josèphe of Saxony
6= 6. Francis I, Holy Roman Emperor
7= 7. Maria Theresa of Austria
Queen of Hungary & Bohemia
8= 8. Louis XV of France
9= 9. Maria Leszczynska
10= 10. Augustus III of Poland
11= 11. Maria Josepha of Austria
12= 12. Leopold, Duke of Lorraine
13= 13. Princess Élisabeth Charlotte of Orléans
14= 14. Charles VI, Holy Roman Emperor
15= 15. Elisabeth Christine of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel
16= 16. Louis, Dauphin of France (1682–1712)
17= 17. Princess Marie-Adélaïde of Savoy
18= 18. Stanislaus I Leszczynski of Poland
19= 19. Katarzyna Opalinska
20= 20. Augustus II of Poland
21= 21. Christiane Eberhardine of Brandenburg-Bayreuth
22= 22. Joseph I, Holy Roman Emperor
23= 23. Wilhelmina Amalia of Brunswick
24= 24. Charles V, Duke of Lorraine
25= 25. Eleonora Maria Josefa of Austria
Queen Dowager of Poland-Lithuania
26= 26. Philippe I, Duke of Orléans
27= 27. Countess Palatine Elizabeth Charlotte of Simmern
28= 28. Leopold I, Holy Roman Emperor
29= 29. Eleonore-Magdalena of Neuburg
30= 30. Louis Rudolph, Duke of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel
31= 31. Princess Christine Louise of Oettingen-Oettingen

Son of Marie Antoinette

Bibliography

"History of Dauphin County, Pennsylvania Historical Commission, Harrisburg, PA"