Marie Armande de La Trémoille


Princess Marie Armande de La Trémoille was a French noblewoman and The Princess of Turenne by marriage.

Biography

The eldest of two children, her parents were Charles Belgique Hollande de La Trémoille, duc de Thouars, and Madeleine de Créquy. She was engaged to a distant cousin, Emmanuel Théodose de La Tour d'Auvergne, son and heir of Godefroy Maurice de La Tour d'Auvergne, Duke of Bouillon. Emmanuel Théodose's mother was Marie Anne Mancini, niece of Cardinal Mazarin.
As heir to the Duchy of Bouillon, her husband was styled 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 whom had further issue.
Through her father, she was a second cousin of the French regent Philippe, duc d'Orléans.
The princess de Turenne died in Paris at the Hôtel de Bouillon in Paris. Her husband went on to marry three more times; firstly in 1719 to Louise Françoise Angélique Le Tellier a grand daughter of Louvois; again in 1720 to Anne Marie Christiane de Simiane and again in 1725 to Louise Henriette Françoise de Lorraine.

Issue

  1. Armande de La Tour d'Auvergne married Louis de Melun, Prince d'Epinoy, duc de Joyeuse.
  2. Marie Madeleine de La Tour d'Auvergne died in infancy.
  3. X de La Tour d'Auvergne died in infancy.
  4. Godefroy Maurice de La Tour d'Auvergne ; died in infancy.
  5. Frédéric Maurice Casimir de La Tour d'Auvergne, prince de Turenne ; 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 ; married Charles Armand René de La Trémoille and had issue.
  7. 'Charles Godefroy de La Tour d'Auvergne, Duke of Bouillon ; married his brother's widow, Maria Karolina Sobieski, and had issue.

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