| Élisabeth Thérèse | |
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| Élisabeth Thérèse with her oldest son by an unknown artist | |
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| Consort | 1 April 1737 – 3 July 1741 |
| Spouse | Charles Emmanuel III of Sardinia |
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| Prince Benedetto, Duke of Chablais | |
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| Élisabeth Thérèse de Lorraine | |
| House | House of Savoy House of Lorraine |
| Father | Leopold, Duke of Lorraine |
| Mother | Élisabeth Charlotte d'Orléans |
| Born | 15 October 1711 Château de Lunéville, Lorraine |
| Died | 3 July 1741 (aged 29) Palace of Venaria, Turin |
| Burial | 1786 Basilica of Superga, Turin |
Élisabeth Thérèse of Lorraine (15 October 1711 – 3 July 1741) was born a princess of Lorraine and was the last queen consort of Charles Emmanuel III of Sardinia.[1] The sister of Francis Stephan, Duke of Lorraine,[1] she died as a result of giving birth to Benedetto of Savoy.
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Élisabeth Thérèse of Lorraine was born at the Château de Lunéville and was the ninth of eleven children of Leopold, Duke of Lorraine and his wife Élisabeth Charlotte d'Orléans.[1] Her mother was a niece of Louis XIV and her father a son of Eleanor of Austria, Queen of Poland. Her eldest brother became Francis I, Holy Roman Emperor, four years after her death.
Her father died in 1729 amid negotiations regarding a marriage between the then seventeen-year-old Élisabeth Thérèse and her recently widowed cousin Louis d'Orléans, Duke of Orléans. He refused outright, much to the annoyance of her mother.[2] The match having come to nothing, leading her mother to name her daughter the coadjutrice of Remiremont Abbey on 19 October 1734.[3] The Abbey of Remiremont was closely associated with the House of Lorraine. Her younger sister Anne Charlotte was later the abbess of the prestigious institution.
In 1736 her brother the Duke of Lorraine married the Archduchess Maria Theresa of Austria, daughter and heiress of Charles VI, Holy Roman Emperor. The union between the House of Lorraine and the House of Habsburg was used to ensure a more prestigious marriage for the unwed princess. The already twice widowed Charles Emmanuel III of Sardinia asked for her hand in late 1736 and the marriage went ahead.
She married the king of Sardinia by proxy on 5 March 1737 at Lunéville with Victor Amadeus I, Prince of Carignan acting as the king, who was the prince's brother-in-law. The day after the proxy marriage, she left for Lyon where she arrived on 14 March. Her brother the Duke of Lorraine raised a dowry for her and the marriage contract was signed in Vienna by the Duke and Duchess of Lorraine and Emperor Charles VI.[4]
The couple married in person on 1 April 1737. Charles Emmanuel III was her first cousin, his mother being Anne Marie d'Orléans – a half sister of her mother Élisabeth Charlotte. The marriage produced three children, only one of whom survived infancy. She and her husband arrived in Turin on 21 April.[4]
Élisabeth Thérèse died at the Palace of Venaria aged 29, having fallen ill with puerperal fever after childbirth.[3] She was buried in the Cathedral of Saint Giovanni Battista in Turin. She was moved to the Basilica of Superga in 1786 by her stepson Victor Amadeus III.
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Elisabeth Therese of Lorraine
Born: 15 October 1711 Died: 3 July 1741 |
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Title last held by
Polyxena Christina of Hesse-Rotenburg |
Queen consort of Sardinia 1 April 1737 – 3 July 1741 |
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Maria Antonia Ferdinanda of Spain |
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