Henriette Catherine de Joyeuse (8 January 1585 – 25 February 1656) was the daughter of Henri de Joyeuse and Catherine de Nogaret de La Valette. She married her first husband, Henri de Bourbon, Duke of Montpensier,[1] on 15 May 1597 and her second husband, Charles, Duke of Guise, on 6 January 1611.[2]
Marriages and children
From her first marriage to Henri de Bourbon she had one child:
- Marie de Bourbon, Duchess of Montpensier (15 October 1605 – 4 June 1627),[3] who married Gaston Jean Baptiste de France, duc d'Orléans; parents of la Grande Mademoiselle
From her second marriage to Charles, Duke of Guise she had ten children:
- François de Lorraine (April 3, 1612 – December 7, 1639)[2]
- Twin boys (4 March 1613 – 19 March 1613), who were very frail and sickly. They died on the same day.
- Henri de Lorraine, Duke of Guise (1614–1664), also Archbishop of Reims[2]
- Marie de Lorraine, Duchess of Guise (1615–1688)[2]
- A girl, called Mademoiselle de Joinville (4 March 1617 – 18 January 1618), who was born healthy but caught a cold in the winter of 1617 and died shortly thereafter.
- Charles Louis de Lorraine (July 15, 1618 – March 15, 1637, Florence), styled Duke of Joyeuse
- Louis de Lorraine, Duke of Joyeuse (1622–1664), also Duke of Angoulême[2]
- Françoise Renée de Lorraine (January 10, 1621 – December 4, 1682, Montmartre), Abbess of Montmartre[2]
- Roger de Lorraine (March 21, 1624 – September 9, 1653)[2]