Louis Marie, Duke of Rambouillet

Louis
Duke of Rambouillet
Born	2 January 1746 Palace of Versailles, France
Died	13 November 1749 (aged 3) Palace of Versailles, France
Burial	Royal Chapel, Dreux, France
Names Louis Marie de Bourbon
House	House of Bourbon
Father	Louis Jean Marie de Bourbon, Duke of Penthièvre
Mother	Princess Maria Teresa d'Este

Louis Marie de Bourbon, Duke of Rambouillet (2 January 1746 – 13 November 1749) was a French nobleman who died before his fourth birthday. He was never in the line of succession to the France's throne because he belonged to the illegitimate Bourbon-Penthièvre branch of the royal dynasty through the liaison of Louis XIV with a maîtresse-en-titre. He was known as the Duc de Rambouillet.

Biography

He was the first born son of Louis de Bourbon, Duc de Penthièvre and his wife, Princess Maria Teresa d'Este. His paternal grandfather, Louis-Alexandre de Bourbon, comte de Toulouse, was one of the many children that Madame de Montespan presented to the Sun King during the latter's marriage to the Queen. He was born at Versailles in the suite once occupied by Mme de Montespan, and later by the Penthièvres from 1744 till 1752. Louis was accorded the title Duke of Rambouillet from birth, a dukedom conferred upon his grandfather Toulouse in 1711.

As a member of a legitimised branch of the royal House of Bourbon, he ranked below the true princes du sang but above the princes étrangers and the ducal peers. Louis' father the Duc de Pentièvre was the greatest landowner in France and had one of the largest fortunes in Europe, having added to his own inheritance the fortune of his paternal uncle Louis-Auguste de Bourbon, duc du Maine.

Louis Marie died at the 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

• Ancestors of Louis Marie, Duke of Rambouillet
• 16. Louis XIII of France
• 8. Louis XIV of France
• 17. Anne of Austria
• 4. Louis-Alexandre de Bourbon, comte de Toulouse
• 18. Gabriel de Rochechouart, duc de Mortemart
• 9. Françoise-Athénaïs de Rochechouart, marquise de Montespan
• 19. Diane de Grandseigne
• 2. Louis Jean Marie de Bourbon, duc de Penthièvre
• 20. Anne de Noailles, duc de Noailles
• 10. Anne Jules de Noailles, duc de Noailles
• 21. Louise Boyer
• 5. Marie Victoire de Noailles
• 22. Ambroise-François, duc de Bournonville
• 11. Marie-Françoise de Bournonville
• 23. Lucrèce Françoise de La Vieuville
• 1.Louis Marie de Bourbon
• 24. Francesco I d'Este
• 12. Rinaldo d'Este, Duke of Modena
• 25. Lucrezia Barberini
• 6. Francesco III d'Este, Duke of Modena
• 26. John Frederick, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg
• 13. Charlotte Felicity of Brunswick
• 27. Benedicta-Henrietta of the Palatinate
• 3. Princess Maria Teresa Felicitas of Modena
• 28. Philippe de France, Duke of Orléans
• 14. Philippe II, Duke of Orléans
• 29. Princess Palatine Elisabeth Charlotte
• 7. Charlotte Aglaé d'Orléans
• 30. Louis XIV of France =8
• 15. Françoise-Marie de Bourbon
• 31. Françoise-Athénaïs de Rochechouart, marquise de Montespan =9