Léonor d'Orléans, duc de Longueville
Deceased Person
1540 – 1573
Who was Léonor d'Orléans, duc de Longueville?
Léonor d'Orléans was duc de Longueville, prince of Châtellaillon, marquis of Rothelin, count of Montgommery and of Tancarville, visount of Abberville, Melun, count of Neufchâtel and of Valangin, was governor of Picardy and Normandy and one of the military leaders of the French Wars of Religion. He was the grandson of Louis I d'Orléans, duc de Longueville and he succeeded his first cousin, François III d'Orléans as duc de Longueville.
He married Marie de Bourbon, Duchess of Estouteville and was father to:
Henri I d'Orléans, duc de Longueville
François III d'Orléans, comte de Saint-Pol
Antoinette d’Orléans, married Charles de Gondi, mother of Henri de Gondi, duc de Retz
Éléonore d’Orléans, married in 1596 à Charles Goyon de Matignon.
Two unmarried daughters
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- Born
- 1540
- Children
- Died
- Aug 7, 1573
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on July 23, 2013
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