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.Life
He was the son of François, marquis of Rothelin, and Jacqueline de Rohan, Marquise de Rothelin. 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, daughter of François I Bourbon and Adrienne d’Estouteville.
Louis died in 1573, after returning from the siege of La Rochelle, at Blois and was buried at Châteaudun.Issue
Leonor and Marie had:
- 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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