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A series of miscarriages disenchanted the king and served to chill their relations. On 14 March 1622, while playing with her ladies, Anne fell and suffered her second stillbirth. Louis blamed her for the incident and was angry with Marie de Rohan, now the Dowager Duchess of Luynes, for having encouraged the queen in what was seen as negligence ...
Louis was also captivated by Henri Coiffier de Ruzé, Marquis of Cinq-Mars, 19 years his younger, who was later executed for conspiring with the Spanish enemy in time of war. Tallemant described how on a royal journey, the King "sent M. le Grand [de Cinq-Mars] to undress, who returned, adorned like a bride.
Maria Theresa despised her husband's prolonged infidelity with Françoise-Athénaïs, Marquise de Montespan. [46] Louis reprimanded Madame de Montespan when her behaviour at court too flagrantly disrespected the queen's position, [47] yet often displayed a level of indulgence toward her that surpassed his treatment of the queen. [48]
Through her grandmother, Louise de Bourbon-Busset, she came to the French court to Paris, and became maid-of-honor to Anne of Austria.In 1635 Cardinal Richelieu sought to attract the attention of Louis XIII to her in the hope that she might counterbalance the influence exercised over him by Marie de Hautefort.
By doing so, Louis XI hoped to extinguish the Orléans cadet branch of the House of Valois. [5] [6] Louis was displeased at the forced marriage, and his treatment of his new wife reflected this. King Louis died in 1483 and was succeeded by his son Charles. As he was still a child, his sister, Anne de Beaujeu, was made Regent of the kingdom. By ...
Her nephew Louis XIV, who loved and esteemed his aunt, visited her several times and consulted her on everything that concerned the affairs of France. [124] In August 1669, she saw the birth of her granddaughter Anne Marie d'Orléans ; Anne Marie was the maternal grandmother of Louis XV , making Henrietta Maria an ancestor of most of today's ...
Upon the death of her father-in-law Louis Philippe d'Orléans in November 1785, her husband became the new Duke of Orléans, and First Prince of the Blood, taking rank only after the immediate family of the king. As the wife of a prince du sang she was entitled to be addressed as "Your Serene Highness", a style to which her own illegitimate ...
The marriage was arranged as a part of a series of Franco-Sardinian dynastic marriages taking place in a time span of eight years: after the wedding between her first cousin the Princesse de Lamballe and Louis Alexandre de Bourbon, Prince of Lamballe, [3]: 7 and the wedding between Marie Joséphine and Louis Stanislas, her younger sister Maria ...