Louis Marie, Duke of Rambouillet

Louis
Duke of Rambouillet
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
Born 2 January 1746
Palace of Versailles, France
Died 13 November 1749 (aged 3)
Palace of Versailles, France
Burial Royal Chapel, Dreux, France
Religion Roman Catholicism

Louis Marie de Bourbon, Duke of Rambouillet (2 January 1746 13 November 1749) was a French prince and child of the eldest son of the Duke of Penthièvre. He was known as the Duke of Rambouillet.

Biography

Born at the Palace of Versailles in the Apartments of his mother at Versailles, present bedchamber of Madame Adélaïde[1][2] Louis was given the title of Duke of Rambouillet from birth, a title given to his grand father the Count of Toulouse in 1711 by Louis XIV for Toulouse.

As a member of a legitimised branch of the House of Bourbon, he ranked as a Prince du Sang, this entitled Louis to the style of Serene Highness. Louis' father, Louis Jean Marie de Bourbon was the greatest landowner in France and had one of the largest fortunes in Europe thanks to Louis Jean Marie inheriting the fortune of the Duke of Maine, his paternal uncle. Despite this, Louis Marie never lived to enjoy the fortune of his father; Louis Marie died at the Palace of 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

Titles, styles, honours and arms

Titles and styles

References and notes

  1. Madame Adélaïde's Bedchamber
  2. The original appartement des bains, suite of rooms used by Louis's ancestor Madame de Montespan then by her son, the Count of Toulouse. The rooms were the suite of the Penthièvre's from 1744 till 1752

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