Emmanuel Théodose de La Tour d'Auvergne, duc de Bouillon

Emmanuel Théodose de La Tour d'Auvergne (* 1668 ; † 16 or 17 May 1730 ) was as Prince étranger one of the highest-ranking French nobles; he was u. a. the 8th Duc de Bouillon and the first Grand Chamberlain of the young King Louis XV.

Life

Emmanuel Théodose was the second son of Godefroy Maurice de La Tour d'Auvergne , 2nd Duc d' Albret et de Château-Thierry, 7th Duc de Bouillon, and Maria Anna Mancini , and thus intended for a spiritual career. The Cardinal de Bouillon (since 1669) Emmanuel Théodose de la Tour d'Auvergne (1643-1715), who was Grand Almosenier of France in 1671 (and remained so until 1700), was his uncle. In 1677, at the age of nine, Emmanuel Théodose (the Younger) became Abbot of Bonport , and four years later, in 1681, Abbot of Saint-Sauveur de Redon . When his older brother, the Hereditary Duke Louis, called le Prince de Turenne , was so badly wounded on August 4, 1692 in the battle of Steenkerke that he died the next day, Emmanuel Théodose came first in the line of succession and still gave in the same year his spiritual offices. He was now called le Prince de Turenne himself .

On February 1, 1696 he married Marie Armande Victoire de La Trémoille (* 1677), † March 5, 1717, daughter of Charles Belgique Hollande de La Trémoille, 4th Duc de Thouars, Pair de France, 3rd Duc de La Trémoille, and Madeleine de Créquy ( La Trémoille house ). In the same year his father gave him the title of Duc de Bouillon. The couple had seven children:

1. Armande, born August 26, 1697, † April 13, 1717 in childbed; ∞ February 23, 1716 Louis de Melun, 1704 8th Prince d'Épinoy, 1714 Duc de Joyeuse , Pair de France, † July 31, 1724 ( House of Melun )
2. Marie Madeleine, born October 22, 1698, † September 25, 1699
3. Son , * December 28, 1699, † December 30, 1699
4. Godefroi Maurice, called Prince de Turenne , * May 4, 1701, † January 9, 1705
5. Frédéric Maurice Casimir, called Prince de Turenne (from 1705), * October 24, 1702, † October 1, 1723; ∞ per procura Neisse August 25, 1723, personally Strasbourg September 20, 1723, Maria Karolina Princess Sobieska, * November 25, 1697, † May 8, 1740, daughter of Prince Jakob Louis Heinrich Sobieski , granddaughter of the Polish King John III. Sobieski ; Frédéric Maurice Casimir died ten days after the wedding in an accident in Strasbourg and was buried in the Strasbourg Cathedral ; A few months later, on April 2, 1724, Maria Karolina married her brother-in-law Charles Godefroi de La Tour d'Auvergne, who later became the 9th Duke of Bouillon (see below).
6. Marie Hortense Victoire, born September 27, 1704; ∞ February 29, 1725 Charles-Armand-René de La Trémoille , 1719 6th Duc de Thouars, Pair de France, 5th Duc de La Trémoille, Marshal of France , † April 23, 1741 ( House of La Trémoille )
7. Charles Godefroi , born July 16, 1706, † October 24, 1771, 1730 9th Duc de Bouillon, 4th Duc d'Albret et de Château-Thierry, Pair de France etc., Governor of Auvergne; ∞ April 2, 1724 Maria Karolina Princess Sobieska, * November 25, 1697, † May 8, 1740, daughter of Prince Jakob Louis Heinrich Sobieski , widow of Frédéric Maurice Casimir de La Tour d'Auvergne, † October 1, 1723, Prince de Turenne (see above)

When King Louis XIV died on September 1, 1715 , his father's term of office as Lord Chamberlain came to an end, he was 79 years old. First Lord Chamberlain of the five-year-old new King Louis XV. became Emmanuel Théodose, who at that time was already 47 years old.

Marie Armande Victoire de La Trémoille died on March 5, 1717. On January 4, 1718 Emmanuel Théodose was second married to Louise Françoise Angélique Le Tellier (* 1698), daughter of Louis François Le Tellier, marquis de Barbezieux , and Marie Thérèse Delphine the Elder 'Alègre ( Le Tellier de Louvois ); from this marriage he had a son, Godefroi Girauld (* July 2, 1719, † June 29, 1732); the mother died in childbed a few days after the birth, on June 8th.

On May 26, 1720 he married Anne Marie Christine de Simiane (* 1683), daughter of François Louis Claude Edmé de Simiane, Comte de Moncha, and Anne Thérèse de Simiane de Gordes; from this marriage he had a daughter, Anne Marie Louise (* August 1, 1722, † September 19, 1739); here, too, the mother died a few days after the birth, on August 8th, in childbed.

A father had died on July 26, 1721 and had given him the title of 3rd Duc d'Albret et de Château-Thierry, Comte d'Auvergne, d'Évreux et de Beaumont-le-Roger, Viscount de Turenne, Pair de France , and left the post of governor of Auvergne.

Emmanuel Théodose continued his father's marriage policy, which aimed to strengthen ties with the other two French families with the rank of Prince étranger ; During his lifetime, only the only surviving daughter from his first marriage, Marie Hortense Victoire, came into question, whom he married on January 29, 1725 to Charles-Armand-René de La Trémoille , who since 1719 was Duc de Thouars, Pair de France and 5th Duc de La Trémoille was. Anne Maire Louise, who was three at the time, was married to Charles de Rohan , 4th Prince de Soubise and 2nd Duc de Rohan-Rohan, after his death and at the age of 12 on December 29, 1734 (she survived the birth of their second child by just a few days).

On March 21, 1725 he was fourth married Louise Henriette Françoise Princesse de Lorraine-Harcourt (* 1707), daughter of Anne-Marie-Joseph de Lorraine Prince d'Harcourt, and Marie-Louise-Chrétienne Jeannin de Castille ( House of Guise ) From this marriage he also had a daughter, Marie Sophie Charlotte (* December 20, 1729, † September 6, 1763), who on April 3, 1745, at the age of 14, with Charles-Juste de Beauvau , 2nd Prince de Beauvau (born September 10, 1720, † May 21, 1793) ( House of Beauvau ) was married.

In 1728, when Emmanuel Théodose turned 60 and the King turned 18, the Duc de Bouillon handed over the office of Grand Chamberlain to his son Charles Godefroi, who was only four years older than Louis XV. Two years later and a few months after the birth of his youngest daughter, Emmanuel Théodose de La Tour d'Auvergne died at the age of 72 on May 16 (or 17), 1730; his titles passed to Charles Godefroi, who was now the 9th Duc de Bouillon, 4th Duc d'Albret et de Château-Thierry, Peer of France, etc. His widow Louise Henriette survived him by seven years and died on March 31, 1737.

literature

• Detlev Schwennicke , European Family Tables , Volume 10, 1986, Plate 98