Marguerite Louise d'Orléans
Noble person
1645 – 1721
Who was Marguerite Louise d'Orléans?
Marguerite Louise d'Orléans was Grand Duchess of Tuscany, as the wife of Grand Duke Cosimo III de' Medici. Deprived of her lover, Charles V of Lorraine, and yearning for France, Marguerite Louise despised her husband and his family, whom she often quarrelled with and falsely suspected of attempting to poison her. Marguerite Louise reconciled with the Medici on more than one occasion, however, only to promptly resume hostilities.
Having become Grand Duke of Tuscany upon his father's death, in 1670, Cosimo III, under the sway of his mother, Vittoria della Rovere, refused to grant Marguerite Louise entry to the Consulta. Thus without political influence, Marguerite Louise oversaw the education of her eldest son, Grand Prince Ferdinando. Two more children followed: Anna Maria Luisa, Electress Palatine, and Gian Gastone, the last Medici Grand Duke of Tuscany.
In June 1675, having signed a contract with Cosimo III the previous December stipulating an 80,000 livres pension, Marguerite Louise was allowed to return to France, on the condition she reside in the Abbaye Saint Pierre de Montmartre, near Paris.
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- Born
- Jul 28, 1645
Château de Blois - Parents
- Siblings
- Spouses
- Cosimo III de' Medici
(1661/06/20 - )
- Cosimo III de' Medici
- Children
- Nationality
- Kingdom of France
- Lived in
- Centre
- Died
- Sep 17, 1721
Place des Vosges - Resting place
- Picpus Cemetery
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on July 23, 2013
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