Léopold I, Duke of Lorraine

Léopold I, Duke of Lorraine (11 September 1679 – 27 Mairch 1729), kent as "the good", wis Duke o Lorraine an Bar frae 1690 till his death. He is the ancestor o the House o Habsburg-Lorraine, including all of the future Emperors of Austria. Though sometimes known as as Léopold Joseph he signed simply as Léopold and married a niece of Louis XIV.

Marriage
On 13 October 1698 at the Palace of Fontainebleau he married Élisabeth Charlotte d'Orléans, niece o Louis XIV an daughter of Philippe I, Duke of Orléans an Elizabeth Charlotte of the Palatinate, an half-sister of the Queens of Spain and Sardinia. Her brother Philippe, Duke o Chartres (later Orléans) later Regent of France for the young King Louis XV. As a granddaughter of Louis XIII of France, she was a Granddaughter of France.

Issue

 * 1) Léopold, Hereditary Prince of Lorraine (26 August 1699 – 2 April 1700) died in infancy.
 * 2) Princess Élisabeth Charlotte of Lorraine (21 October 1700 – 4 May 1711) died of smallpox.
 * 3) Princess Louise Christine o Lorraine (13 November 1701 – 18 November 1701) died in infancy.
 * 4) Princess Marie Gabrièle Charlotte of Lorraine (30 December 1702 – 11 May 1711) died of smallpox.
 * 5) Louis, Hereditary Prince of Lorraine (28 January 1704 – 10 May 1711) died of smallpox.
 * 6) Princess Joséphine Gabrièle of Lorraine (16 February 1705 – 25 March 1708) died in infancy.
 * 7) Princess Gabrièle Louise of Lorraine (4 March 1706 – 13 June 1710) died in infancy.
 * 8) Léopold Clément, Hereditary Prince of Lorraine (25 April 1707 – 4 June 1723) died unmarried.
 * 9) Francis I, Holy Roman Emperor (8 December 1708 – 18 August 1765) married the future Empress Maria Theresa and had children.
 * 10) Princess Eléonore of Lorraine (4 June 1710 – 28 Julie 1710) died in infancy.
 * 11) Princess Elisabeth Therese of Lorraine (15 October 1711 – 3 July 1741) married Charles Emmanuel III of Sardinia and had children.
 * 12) Prince Charles Alexandre of Lorraine (12 December 1712 – 4 July 1780) married Archduchess Maria Anna of Austria and had children.
 * 13) Princess Anne Charlotte of Lorraine (17 May 1714 - 7 November 1773) Abbess of Essen an never married.