Louis I. de Bourbon, duc d'Orléans
Louis I. de Bourbon, duc d'Orléans ( German Ludwig I, Duke of Orléans ; * August 4, 1703 in Versailles , † February 4, 1752 in Paris ), also known as Louis d'Orléans for short , was a member of the French Bourbon-Orléans royal family .
Life
Ludwig was the only legitimate son of Duke Philip II. De Bourbon , the regent of France (1715–1723), and Françoise Marie de Bourbon , thus grandson of Philip I de Bourbon , Liselotte of the Palatinate and King Louis XIV.
Ludwig was born in Versailles and received the title of Duke of Chartres . After the death of King Louis XIV's great-grandson Louis de Bretagne in 1712 and the further great-grandson Charles d'Alençon in 1713, the last, only two-year-old great-grandson, later Louis XV. , the king's only authorized descendant - until the birth of his son Louis Ferdinand in 1729. If Louis XV. died in these 16 years, Philippe II. d'Orléans and subsequently his son Louis I. d'Orléans would have inherited the throne.
As a somewhat clumsy but pious and benevolent prince, he took little interest in the politics of his time; only his hostility towards Cardinal Guillaume Dubois , his father's prime minister, in 1723 is striking.
At the age of 17, Ludwig became Grand Master of the Order of Lazarus under the protectorate of the French crown; an office that he held until his death in 1752. In 1723 he succeeded his late father as Duke of Orléans and Nemours .
In 1730, Cardinal André-Hercule de Fleury ensured Ludwig's release from the position of general of the infantry , a post he had held for nine years. After retiring into private life, he mainly occupied himself with the translation of Paul’s psalms and epistles . Disinterested in art, books or coins, he closed the rich collections of his father and his grandparents, Philippe I. de Bourbon and Liselotte von der Pfalz , and sold most of them.
Ludwig died in 1752 in the Abbey of St. Genevieve in Paris.
progeny
He had two children with his wife Auguste von Baden-Baden , daughter of Margrave Ludwig Wilhelm , known as Türkenlouis :
- Louis-Philippe I (May 12, 1725 - November 18, 1785); he succeeded his father as Duke of Orléans
- Louise Marie d'Orléans (born August 5, 1726 - † May 14, 1728)
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Dirk Van der Cruysse, Madame is a great craft, Liselotte von der Pfalz. A German princess at the court of the Sun King. From the French by Inge Leipold. 14th edition, Piper, Munich 2015, ISBN 3-492-22141-6 , p. 535.
| predecessor | Office | successor |
|---|---|---|
| Philippe de Courcillon |
 Grand Master of the Order of Lazarus 1720–1752 |
Louis XVI |
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Bourbon, Louis de, duc d'Orléans |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Orléans, Louis d '; Bourbon, Louis of, Duke of Orléans |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Duke of Orléans |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 4, 1703 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Versailles |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 4, 1752 |
| Place of death | Paris |