Louis xiv of france family tree
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Meet the family
While film and television dramatizations of Alexandre Dumas’s The Three Musketeersare often fast and loose with historical fact, even on occasion presenting the future Louis XIV as the son of Aramis the Musketeer, this family tree of the French royal family explores the ancestry and posterity of the Sun King.
- Maria-Theresa of Austria
Louis XIV’s wife was also a princess of Spain, his first cousin. Theirs was a political marriage, and she was somewhat isolated at court. - Louis of France, the Grand Dauphin (known as Monseigneur)
The only child of his parents to survive to adulthood, Louis nevertheless predeceased his father, never to become king himself. - The Duke and Duchess of Burgundy
The Duke of Burgundy was the king’s grandson and heir. He married Louis’ great-niece, the granddaughter of his brother and Henrietta of England. The Duchess was a great favourite at court and the king was hjärtekrossad when the couple died within days of each other from measles.
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When Roi Louis XIV de Bourbon "Le Roi-Soleil" was born on 5 September 1638, in Saint-Germain-en-Laye, Seine-et-Oise, France, his father, Roi Louis XIII de Bourbon "Le Juste", was 36 and his mother, Ana María Mauricia de Austria, was 36. He married María Teresa de Austria on 9 June 1660, in Saint-Jean-de-Luz, Basses-Pyrénées, France. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 4 daughters. He died on 1 September 1715, in Versailles, Île-de-France, France, at the age of 76, and was buried in Île-de-France, France.
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Descendants of Louis XIV
People descended from King Louis XIV of France
Louis XIV (1638–1715), the Bourbon monarch of the Kingdom of France, was the son of King Louis XIII of France and Queen Anne.
The descendants of Louis XIV are numerous. Although only one of his children by his wife Maria Theresa of Spain survived past infancy, Louis had many illegitimate children by his mistresses.[1] This article deals with the children of Louis XIV and in turn their senior descendants.
Legitimate issue by Maria Theresa of Spain
[edit]Main article: Maria Theresa of Spain
She was born as Infanta María Teresa of Spain (also known as María Teresa of Austria, because she was by birth a member of Casa d'Austria, House of Austria), at the Royal Monastery of El Escorial. Maria was the daughter of Philip IV of Spain and Elisabeth of France. María Teresa thus combined the blood of Philip III of Spain and Margarita of Austria, on her father's side, and that of Henry IV of