Louis Alexandre, Count of Toulouse
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Louis Alexandre de Bourbon | ||
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Count of Toulouse | ||
Toulouse by Hyacinthe Rigaud, 1708. | ||
Born | 6 June 1678 Versailles, France | |
Died | 1 December 1737 Château de Rambouillet, France | (aged 59)|
Spouse | Marie Victoire de Noailles (m 2 February 1723) | |
Issue | Louis Jean Marie, Duke of Penthièvre | |
Full name | ||
Louis Alexandre de Bourbon | ||
House | Bourbon (legitimised branch) | |
Father | Louis XIV of France | |
Mother | Madame de Montespan | |
Burial | 25 November 1783 Royal Chapel, Dreux, France | |
Signature | ||
Louis Alexandre de Bourbon (6 June 1678 – 1 December 1737) was a legitimised Prince of the French royal blood and natural son of Louis XIV and of his mistress Françoise-Athénaïs, marquise de Montespan. At the age of five, he became grand admiral of France.
Marriage[edit]
On 2 February 1723, during the Regency of Philippe d'Orlèans, he married Marie Victoire de Noailles, Dowager Marquise of Gondrin, helself a daughter of Anne Jules de Noailles, 2nd Duke of Noailles and Marie Françoise de Bournonville and widow of his half cousin Louis de Pardaillan, Marquis of Gondrin. The marriage was announced only after the death of the Régent in December of the same year.
Issue[edit]
- Louis Jean Marie de Bourbon, Duke of Penthièvre (16 November 1725 – 4 March 1793) married Maria Teresa Felicitas d'Este, Princess of Modena and had issue.
Categories:
- 1678 births
- 1737 deaths
- Peers of France
- Peers created by Louis XIV
- People from Versailles
- House of Bourbon (France)
- Dukes of Vendôme
- Dukes of Penthièvre
- Dukes of Rambouillet
- Counts of Toulouse
- Admirals of France
- Knights of the Order of the Golden Fleece (Spain)
- Secretaries of State of the Navy (France)
- Illegitimate children of Louis XIV of France
- Burials at the Royal Chapel of Dreux
- Legitimised princes of the French royal blood
- People of the Regency of Philippe d'Orléans
- Grand Huntsmen of France