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  2. List of countesses and duchesses of Orléans - Wikipedia

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    Became Duchess Ceased to be Duchess Death Spouse; Marie de Bourbon, Mademoiselle de Montpensier Duchess of Montpensier: Henri de Bourbon, Duke of Montpensier (Bourbon-Montpensier) 15 October 1605 6 August 1626 4 June 1627 Gaston: Marguerite of Lorraine: Francis II, Duke of Lorraine 22 July 1615 2 to 3 January 1632 2 February 1660 husband's death

  3. Louise Marie Adélaïde de Bourbon, Duchess of Orléans - Wikipedia

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    Louise Marie Adélaïde de Bourbon, Duchess of Orléans (13 March 1753 – 23 June 1821), was the daughter of Louis Jean Marie de Bourbon, Duke of Penthièvre and Princess Maria Teresa d'Este. At the death of her brother, Louis Alexandre, Prince of Lamballe , she became the wealthiest heiress in France prior to the French Revolution .

  4. Louise Adélaïde d'Orléans - Wikipedia

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    In 1719, she became the Abbess of Chelles, a post she held until her death. She was also the Abbess of Val-de-Grâce, a church built under the auspices of her maternal and paternal great-grandmother Anne of Austria, the wife of King Louis XIII. Her elder sister, the Duchess of Berry, died on 21 July 1719 and was found to be pregnant again, just ...

  5. Henrietta of England - Wikipedia

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    Henrietta played an instrumental role in negotiating the Secret Treaty of Dover between France and England against the Dutch Republic in June 1670, the same month as her unexpected death at the age of 26. Jacobite claims to the British throne after Henry Benedict Stuart's death descend from her daughter Anne Marie.

  6. Bathilde d'Orléans - Wikipedia

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    The procedure was performed by physician Théodore Tronchin, and a few days later, "the Duchess of Orleans, having appeared at the Opera with her two children, was greeted by endless applause and cheers, as if the two princes had miraculously escaped death." [1] Her mother died in 1759 when Bathilde was just eight years old.

  7. Louise Henriette de Bourbon - Wikipedia

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    The latter is a direct male line descendant of Philip I, Duke of Orleans - a younger brother of Louis XIV and the ancestor of Louise Henriette's husband. All 3 testers were a genetic partilineal match on a ySTR comparison, and were assigned to sub-haplogroup R1b1b2a1a1b*(R-Z381), now deemed the upstream patrilineal snip of the House of Bourbon.

  8. Blanche of France, Duchess of Orléans - Wikipedia

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    Jeanne was also pregnant at the time of his death. Since it was possible that she would give birth to a son, a regency was set up under Philip of Valois, the closest agnate. After two months, Queen Jeanne gave birth to Blanche. The regent thus became king and in May was consecrated and crowned.

  9. Anne Marie Louise d'Orléans, Duchess of Montpensier - Wikipedia

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    Anne Marie Louise d'Orléans, Duchess of Montpensier, (French pronunciation: [an maʁi lwiz dɔʁleɑ̃], 29 May 1627 – 5 April 1693) known as La Grande Mademoiselle ([la ɡʁɑ̃d madmwazɛl], lit. ' The Great Miss '), was the only daughter of Gaston d'Orléans with his first wife, Marie de Bourbon, Duchess of Montpensier.