Leopold Clemens Karl of Lorraine

Hereditary Prince Leopold Clemens Karl of Lorraine, painting by Pierre Gobert , around 1722.

Leopold Clemens Karl of Lorraine (born  April 25, 1707 in Lunéville , †  June 4, 1723 in Lunéville) was a Hereditary Prince of the House of Lorraine. His father was the ruling Duke of Lorraine. His mother came from the House of Bourbon, which ruled the Kingdom of France at the time. After the death of his older brother in 1711, Leopold Clemens became hereditary prince, but died of smallpox at the age of only 16 .

Life

Leopold was born as the third son of Leopold von Lothringen and Élisabeth Charlotte de Bourbon-Orléans in Lunéville Castle . His eldest brother Leopold (1699–1700) died at the age of 8 months. Another three siblings died of the outbreak of smallpox in Lunéville: Elisabeth Charlotte (1700–1711), Maria Gabriele Charlotte (1702–1711) and Ludwig (1704–1711). In the same year, the smallpox epidemic also killed the Grand Dauphin Ludwig von Bourbon and the Roman Emperor Joseph I.

Early on, Leopold was prepared for his future role as the ruling Duke of Lorraine. This included a military career that was closely aligned with the allied imperial family. In 1716, when he was 9 years old, he took over the ownership of an imperial regiment ( "Old Lorraine" ).

In 1722 Leopold became Duke of Teschen , which his father received as compensation for the Duchy of Montferrat in northern Italy , the Emperor Karl VI. ceded Savoy to his allied duchy .

In 1723 he was sent to Vienna to work at the imperial court under the supervision of his father's cousin Charles VI. to be educated. But the dynastic marriage policy also founded the trip. The alliance between the houses of Habsburg and Lorraine was to be strengthened by marrying Archduchess Maria Theresa .

After returning to Lunéville in the meantime, the smallpox epidemic that broke out there demanded him. He quickly succumbed to her.

Leopold was buried in the ducal tomb in the Saint-François-des-Cordeliers church in Nancy .

His next younger brother Franz became the new Hereditary Prince and later husband of Archduchess Maria Theresa of Austria.

Pedigree

16. Francis II of Lorraine

8. Nicholas Francis of Vaudémont

17. Countess Christina von Salm

4. Charles V of Lorraine

18. Henry II of Lorraine

9. Claude Françoise de Lorraine

19. Margarita Gonzaga

2. Leopold Joseph of Lorraine

20. Emperor Ferdinand II.

10. Ferdinand III. (HRR)

21. Maria Anna of Bavaria

5. Eleanor of Austria

22. Charles II of Gonzaga

11. Eleanora Magdalena Gonzaga

23. Maria Gonzaga

1. Leopold Clemens Karl of Lorraine

24. Henry IV of France

12. Louis XIII. from France

25. Maria de 'Medici

6. Philippe I. de Bourbon, duc d'Orléans

26. Philip III. from Spain

13. Anna of Austria

27. Margaret of Austria

3. Elisabeth Charlotte de Bourbon-Orléans

28. Frederick V of the Palatinate

14. Karl I. Ludwig of the Palatinate

29. Elisabeth Stuart

7. Liselotte of the Palatinate

30. Wilhelm V of Hessen-Cassel

15. Charlotte of Hessen-Kassel

31. Amalie Elisabeth von Hanau-Munzenberg

Individual evidence

Commons : Léopold Clément, Hereditary Prince of Lorraine  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

1. ↑ Probably due to the overarching marriage policy. See English language Wikipedia.