Re: Origin of Savoie Royalty MYTH
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In reply to:
Origin of Savoie Royalty Theory
Thomas Patin 10/15/09
Links betweenFrançois Savoie mCatherine Lejeune in Port Royal, Acadia are
likely wishful thinking....
certainly not legitimate - although the Dukes of Savoye were known to have produced bastards.
regarding the most popular theory...
MarieCountess of Soissons(1606-1692) is NOT Francois's mother.
Marie Princess of Carignano Countess of Soissons
Born3 May 1606 Hôtel de Soissons, Paris, France
Died3 June 1692 (aged 86) Hôtel de Soissons, Paris, France
FatherCharles de Bourbon, comte de Soissons
MotherAnne de Montafié
SpouseThomas Francis, Prince of Carignano
Thomas and Marie had seven children who survived infancy
Carignano line
Princess Cristine Charlotte of Savoy (born and died in 1626)
Princess Louise Christine of Savoy (1627–1689) Louise Christine, Margravine of Baden-Baden
Emmanuel Philibert Amadeus of Savoy (1628–1709), 2nd prince de Carignan
Prince Amedeo of Savoy (1629 – died young)
Prince Joseph-Emmanuel (1631–1656), comte de Soissons
Prince Ferdinand of Savoy (1637)
Soissons Line
Prince Eugène Maurice of Savoy (1633–1673)
Marie Marguerite de Bourbon was born at the Hôtel de Soissons in Paris, was the second daughter and youngest child of Charles de Bourbon, comte de Soissons and his wife Anne de Montafié. At the court of Louis XIII, Marie, as a member of the House of Bourbon-Condé, enjoyed the rank of princesse du sang.
On 6 January 1625 Marie was married to Thomas Francis, ninth child of Charles Emmanuel I, Duke of Savoy and his wife Infanta Catherine Michelle of Spain
After Thomas, the senior branch of his descendants repatriated to Savoy, alternately marrying French, Italian and German princesses.
At the death of her older brother Louis de Bourbon (6 July 1641), Marie was named his heir and became the Countess of Soissons suo jure. She lived in her native France with her husband and resided at the Hôtel de Soissons where she was born. It was Marie who built the small Château de Bagnolet in Paris; at her death the building was acquired by the Ferme générale François Le Juge. In 1719 it became the property of Françoise-Marie de Bourbon. Marie and her daughter helped to raise the famous Prince Eugene of Savoy, the famous soldier.