Marie Armande de La Trémoille
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Marie Armande de La Trémoille (Marie Armande Victoire; 1677 – 5 March 1717) was a French noblewoman and Princess of Turenne
Princess of Turenne
The title Princess of Turenne was used by the daughter in law's of the Dukes of Bouillon as wives of the Princes of Turenne, heirs to Bouillon and Sedan.- House of La Tour d'Auvergne, 1691-1794 :...

 by marriage. Her present descendants include the Princes of Guéméné and the present Prince of La Trémoille
Jean Charles, Prince de Ligne de La Trémoille
Prince Jean Charles de Ligne de La Trémoïlle , was a Belgian nobleman and the son of Prince Henri de Ligne and his wife, Princess Charlotte de La Trémoille , eldest daughter of the 13th and penultimate Duc de Thouars...

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Biography

The eldest of two children, her parents were Charles Belgique Hollande de La Trémoille
Charles Belgique Hollande de La Trémoille
Charles Belgique Hollande de La Trémoïlle , 4th duc of Thouars, was a French nobleman. He was the son of Henri Charles de La Trémoille and Émilie of Hesse-Kassel. Brought up Calvinist, in 1668 his father had converted to Catholicism and then forcibly converted his children as well...

, duke de Thouras, and duke de La Trémoille and Madeleine de Créquy. She was engaged to a distant cousin Emmanuel Théodose de La Tour d'Auvergne, (1668–1730), son and heir of Godefroy Maurice de La Tour d'Auvergne
Godefroy Maurice de La Tour d'Auvergne
Godefroy Maurice de La Tour d'Auvergne was a French nobleman and member of the House of La Tour d'Auvergne, one of the most important families in France at the time...

, duke of Bouillon
Duke of Bouillon
The Duke of Bouillon is a title of nobility. Until the nineteenth century, the Duke of Bouillon was the ruler of the semi-sovereign Duchy of Bouillon , a small state located between Luxembourg, Champagne, and the Three Bishoprics and centered on Bouillon.- History of the Duchy of Bouillon :The...

, (1641–1721), a Holy Roman Empire title going back as far as 1456, and a territory adscribed to the Holy Roman Empire
Holy Roman Empire
The Holy Roman Empire was a realm that existed from 962 to 1806 in Central Europe.It was ruled by the Holy Roman Emperor. Its character changed during the Middle Ages and the Early Modern period, when the power of the emperor gradually weakened in favour of the princes...

 adjoining the actual duchy of Luxembourg and Belgium
Belgium
Belgium , officially the Kingdom of Belgium, is a federal state in Western Europe. It is a founding member of the European Union and hosts the EU's headquarters, and those of several other major international organisations such as NATO.Belgium is also a member of, or affiliated to, many...

  but conquered and annexed to revolutionary France
France
The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...

, only after 1795 . Emmanuel Théodose's mother was Marie Anne Mancini
Marie Anne Mancini
Marie Anne Mancini, duchesse de Bouillon , was the youngest of the five famous Mancini sisters, who along with two of their female Martinozzi cousins, were known at the court of King Louis XIV of France as the Mazarinettes because their uncle was the king's chief minister, Cardinal...

, niece of Cardinal Mazarin.

As heir to the Duchy of Bouillon, her husband was styled as the Prince de Turenne. The couple were married on 1 February 1696 in the chapel of the Hôtel de Crequi, Paris, the town house of her maternal grandfather. The couple had seven children, two of which had further issue; it is through her daughter Marie Hortense, that the House of La Trémoille and the Prince of Ligne
Prince of Ligne
Prince of Ligne is one of the most prestigious Belgian noble titles. It goes back to the eleventh century and owes its name at the village in which it originated, between Ath and Tournai. The lords of Ligne belong to the entourage of the Count of Hainaut at the time of the crusades...

 are descendants. Through her son Charles Godefroy, the Princes of Guéméné of the House of Rohan are direct descendants.

Through her father, she was a second cousin of Philippe d'Orléans
Philippe II, Duke of Orléans
Philippe d'Orléans was a member of the royal family of France and served as Regent of the Kingdom from 1715 to 1723. Born at his father's palace at Saint-Cloud, he was known from birth under the title of Duke of Chartres...

, Regent of France for the infant Louis XV.

The Princess of Turenne died in Paris at the Hôtel de Bouillon in Paris
Paris
Paris is the capital and largest city in France, situated on the river Seine, in northern France, at the heart of the Île-de-France region...

. Her husband went on to marry three more times; firstly in 1719 to Louise Françoise Angélique Le Tellier (died 1719) a grand daughter of Louvois
Louvois
Louvois may refer to:* François-Michel le Tellier, Marquis de Louvois , French Secretary of State for War, commonly referred to as "Louvois"* Camille le Tellier de Louvois , French clergyman, son of the marquis...

; again in 1720 to Anne Marie Christiane de Simiane (died 1722) and again in 1725 to Louise Henriette Françoise de Lorraine
Louise Henriette Françoise de Lorraine
Louise Henriette Françoise de Lorraine was a French noblewoman and member of the House of Guise, a cadet branch of the House of Lorraine...

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Issue

  1. Armande de La Tour d'Auvergne
    Armande de La Tour d'Auvergne
    Armande de La Tour d'Auvergne was a French noblewoman and Princess of Epinoy by marriage. She died without issue.-Biography:...

    (28 August 1697 – 13 April 1717) married Louis de Melun, Prince of Epinoy, Duke of Joyeuse
    Louis, Duke of Joyeuse (1694–1724)
    Louis de Melun, Duke of Joyeuse was a French noble man. He was the Prince of Epinoy, Baron then Duke of Joyeuse and Peer of France, Baron of Cysoing, Antoing and Wiers, Earl of Saint-Pol, Viscount of Gand, châtelain de Bapaume, Lord of Villemareuil, of Vaucourtois and of...

     (1694–1724)
  2. Marie Madeleine de La Tour d'Auvergne (22 October 1698 – 25 September 1699) died in infancy;
  3. X de La Tour d'Auvergne (28 December 1699 – 30 December 1699) died in infancy;
  4. Godefroy Maurice de La Tour d'Auvergne, Prince of Turenne (4 May 1701 – 9 January 1705) died in infancy;
  5. Frédéric Maurice Casimir de La Tour d'Auvergne
    Frédéric Maurice Casimir de La Tour d'Auvergne
    Frédéric Maurice Casimir de La Tour d'Auvergne styled Prince of Turenne, was the eldest surviving son of Emmanuel Théodose de La Tour d'Auvergne . He died aged 20...

    , Prince of Turenne (24 October 1702 – 1 October 1723) married Maria Carolina Sobieski, daughter of James Louis Sobieski and sister of Maria Clementina Sobieski; died in an accident at Strassburg; no issue;
  6. Marie Hortense Victoire de La Tour d'Auvergne (27 January 1704 – 1741) married Charles Armand René de La Trémoille
    Charles Armand René de La Trémoille
    Charles Armand René de La Trémoille , 6th duc de Thouars, was the son of Charles Louis Bretagne de La Trémoille and his wife, Madeleine de Créquy....

     and had issue;
  7. Charles Godefroy de La Tour d'Auvergne
    Charles Godefroy de La Tour d'Auvergne
    Charles Godefroy de La Tour d'Auvergne was a French nobleman and member of the powerful House of La Tour d'Auvergne.-Biography:...

    , Duke of Bouillon
    Duke of Bouillon
    The Duke of Bouillon is a title of nobility. Until the nineteenth century, the Duke of Bouillon was the ruler of the semi-sovereign Duchy of Bouillon , a small state located between Luxembourg, Champagne, and the Three Bishoprics and centered on Bouillon.- History of the Duchy of Bouillon :The...

     (16 July 1706 – 24 October 1771) married his brother's widow Maria Karolina Sobieski and had issue;

Ancestry



Titles and styles

  • 1677 – 1 February 1696 Her Highness Mademoiselle de Thouars
  • 1 February 1696 – 5 March 1717 Her Highness the Princess of Turenne
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