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Although only one of his children by his wife Maria Theresa of Spain survived past infancy, Louis had many illegitimate children by his mistresses. Inas the war with France began to wind down, a union between the two royal families, of Spain and of France, was proposed as a means to secure peace. Philip then sent a special envoy to the French Court to open negotiations for peace and a royal marriage. Her father, Philip IV, and the entire Spanish court accompanied the bride to the Isle of Pheasantsin the Bidassoawhere Louis and his court met her. On 7 Juneshe departed from her native country of Spain. Two days later, on Louis XIV 2nd edition June, the religious marriage took place in Saint-Jean-de-Luz Saint Jean-Baptiste church, which had recently been rebuilt on the site of the former 13th century church burned several times in the 15th and 16th centuries. However, the duke and Madame Royale never had Louis XIV 2nd edition children. However, the remaining descendants of Charles X refused to give up their claims. Henry, Count of Chambord died childless on 24 August Burgundy's youngest brother, Charles, Duke Louis XIV 2nd edition Berry Louis XIV 2nd edition, died without any surviving issue. Some French royalists recognized Louis-Philippe's grandson, Philippe, Count of Parisas the rightful heir; others transferred their loyalty to members of the Spanish Louis XIV 2nd edition Family who were descended from Philip V of Spain. In the aftermath of the War of Spanish SuccessionPhilip inherited the throne of Spain, but had to renounce his claim to the French throne as part of Treaty of Utrechtin a move by the Grand Alliance powers to Louis XIV 2nd edition the union of the two Crowns. Legitimists regard this as invalid, because under the fundamental law of French monarchy neither a king nor his heirs can renounce the claim to a throne they hold but do not possess. Moreover, Philip quickly revived Spanish ambition; taking advantage of the power vacuum caused by Louis XIV's death inPhilip announced he would claim the French crown if his infant nephew Louis XV died, and attempted to reclaim Spanish territory in Louis XIV 2nd edition, precipitating the War of the Quadruple Alliance in Louis XIV 2nd edition He issued a declaration saying, "Having become Head of the House of Bourbon by the death of my brother-in-law and cousin, the Count of Chambord, I declare that I do not in any way renounce the rights to the Louis XIV 2nd edition of France which I have held since my birth". After his death, his sons and grandson, succeeded to the titles. His youngest son, Alfonso Carloswilled his rights to the Spanish throne to Xavier, Duke of Parmawho became the Carlist pretender. However, the rights to the throne of France passed to the line of his cousin, Francis, Duke of Cadizwho was the son of his grandfather's youngest brother. The title was next inherited by the eldest-surviving son of Alfonso, Infante Jaime, Duke of Segovia and subsequently his grandson and great-grandson. However, if a non-Salic primogeniture is followed, the eldest surviving descendant, in other words, the heir-general of Louis XIV is the present Duke of Calabria. Two of their children died very young. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Main article: Maria Theresa of Spain. Main article: House of Bourbon du Maine. Retrieved 21 June Love and Louis XIV. House of Bourbon. Henry IV of Louis XIV 2nd edition. Margaret of Valois Marie de' Medici. Louis XIII. Louis XIV. Louis XV. Louis XVI. Louis XVII. Louis had no children; he died aged 10 in See Bourbon Restoration. Charles X. Princess Maria Teresa of Savoy. Notes 1 also an Infante or Infanta of Spain 2 also an Archduchess of Austria 3 both p Philip was the first Bourbon king of Spain, the country's present ruling house. Hidden categories: Use dmy dates from December Namespaces Article Talk. Views Read Edit View history. Help Learn to edit Community portal Recent changes Upload file. Download as PDF Printable version. Louis, Duke of Burgundy Louis XIV 2nd edition Louis, Duke of Brittany Louis XV of France — Louis XVI of France — Marie Antoinette 16 May 4 children. Charles X of France — Henri, Count of Chambord — Philip V of Spain — Charles III of Spain — Maria Amalia of Saxony 13 children. Charles IV of Spain — Maria Luisa of Parma 10 October Louis XIV 2nd edition children. Infante Carlos, Count of Molina — Carlos, Duke of Madrid — Margherita of Parma 4 February 5 children. Jaime, Duke of Madrid — Alfonso Louis XIV 2nd edition, Duke of San Jaime — Maria das Neves of Portugal 26 April 1 child. Victoria Eugenie of Battenberg 31 May 7 children. Infante Jaime, Duke of Segovia — Louis Alphonse, Duke of Anjou —present. Philip, Duke of Parma 26 August 3 children. Ferdinand, Duke of Parma — Archduchess Maria Amalia of Austria 19 July 7 children. Louis of Etruria — Charles II, Duke of Parma — Maria Teresa of Savoy 5 September 2 children. Robert I, Duke of Parma — Henry, Duke Louis XIV 2nd edition Parma — Joseph, Duke of Parma — Elias, Duke of Parma — Maria Anna of Austria 25 May Vienna 8 children. Robert II, Duke of Parma — Louis XIV 2nd edition of Parma — Alicia, Duchess of Calabria — Philippe Charles de France — Marie Anne de Bourbon — Louis de Bourbon, Count of Vermandois — Louis Auguste de Bourbon, Duke of Maine — Louis Auguste de Bourbon, Prince of Dombes — Louis Charles de Bourbon, Count of Eu — Charles de Bourbon, Count of Charolais — Louis de Bourbon, Count of Clermont — Maria Amalia of the Two Sicilies 10 children. Prince Philippe, Count of Paris — Maria Dorothea of Austria 5 November No children. Prince Jean, Duke of Guise — Prince Henri, Count of Paris — Henri, Count of Paris, Duke of France —present. 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At Versailles during the night of October 9,three months after the death of his wife, Maria Teresa of Spain, Louis XIV, King of France and Navarre, married Mme de Maintenon, the former governess of his children by his recently discarded mistress, the marquise de Montespan. The marriage was intended to remain Louis XIV 2nd edition, but this did not prevent rumors from spreading, throwing the court into a state of utter amazement. How can we explain Mme de Maintenon's extraordinary rise from a questionable past to become the wife of Europe's most powerful sovereign? She Louis XIV 2nd edition remain at the side of Louis XIV for the next thirty-two years, until his death incontinually provoking such questions. The King never publicly admitted that he was married to her, so she was an ambiguous figure, courted as well as resented and feared for her closeness to him. Despite her outward piety, even prudishness, many at the court, the duc de Saint-Simon among them, saw her as an unscrupulous, ambitious, scheming, and sanctimonious hypocrite. Mme de Maintenon herself preferred to keep her relationship with the King something of a Louis XIV 2nd edition. Veronica Buckley's biography, like other recent studies, looks beyond the prejudices that have long surrounded Mme de Maintenon. Buckley sets out to reconstruct her complex and elusive personality and to understand her often contradictory behavior against the political, cultural, and religious background of the society in which she moved up, step by careful step. Louis XIV 2nd edition her mother returned to France an impoverished widow, she forced her daughter to beg in the streets before abandoning her to the guardianship of Mme de Neuillant, the wife of the governor of Niort. She was a beautiful young woman, but she lacked a dowry, and at the age of sixteen, in order Louis XIV 2nd edition avoid ending up in a convent, she accepted the proposal of the libertine writer Paul Scarron, who was twenty-five years her senior. He was irascible, beset by debts, and deformed by a crippling arthritis. He was also brilliant, cultivated, and amusing, and Parisians were drawn to his salon for his jokes, verses, and anecdotes. His young wife became, in effect, his nurse while also making her way in fashionable circles. We don't know whether Scarron's physical condition ruled out conjugal intimacy. As Buckley writes:. If her reserve toward men protected her from slander, her apparent suppression of sexuality was also in keeping with the idea of "preciousness" then spreading through the salons of the capital. Years later, in a vitriolic portrait in his memoirs, the duc de Saint-Simon accused Mme de Maintenon of clinging to the precious and prim qualities that had been fashionable during her youth. After Scarron's death, his wife once more found herself penniless. But she was finally free, still a great beauty, and had a quick wit. Some old friends persuaded the pious Queen Mother, Anne of Austria, that poverty might tempt the virtuous widow into the life of a kept woman, so Anne granted her a pension that gave her independence and enabled her to continue the social life she had enjoyed during her marriage. At the same time she became a close friend of Ninon de Lenclos, a refined, cultivated courtesan who had scandalized proper society. Was it a major affair, as Buckley claims? Certainly the extremely discreet rela- tionship with Villarceaux did not prevent the doors of Parisian high society from opening wide to her. There were two boys and a girl in Decemberwhen they were declared the King's legitimate children and joined the court, and four more to come. By that time, moreover, she had fallen in love with their father, and after a protracted struggle with her conscience yielded to his advances, probably in November Louis XIV had already given her pensions and gifts of money in appreciation for her care of his children, and in February of the next year he conferred upon her the title marquise de Maintenon. Mme de Maintenon's first problem was to avoid joining the ranks of the many sexual conquests that the indefatigable sovereign relegated to the margins of his relationship with Mme de Montespan. He had been struck by her dedication to his children and the qualities that he had discerned during his visits to them: her sweetness, reserve, tact, and modesty; her understanding of life; her emotional balance. It was by impressing him with her character that she made herself indispensable to the King, earning Louis XIV 2nd edition playful epithet "Your Steadiness" and becoming a source of Louis XIV 2nd edition and stability to him. Not satisfied, however, she became more ambitious beginning in She would forge a stronger bond with him, a bond that would ensure a lasting, indeed an everlasting glory, for him and also for herself. She was not going to be counted as just one more royal mistress. Her goal was far, far higher. Dazzled by the vertiginous heights to which she had risen "my life Her decision, in short. Buckley is severe in her judgments of Louis XIV's policies and style of governing. As might be expected, she mentions his harsh imprisonment of Nicolas Fouquet, the superintendent of finance and an enormously rich patron of the arts, whose grand style Louis found intolerable. More generally, she Louis XIV 2nd edition the King's entire reign especially by comparison with the achievements of England's parliamentary monarchyincluding his economic and military policies, and above all his quest for supremacy in Europe. Again, this criticism is familiar, if more controversial. But Buckley's claims about seventeenth-century religiosity are much more doubtful, and she fails to understand the centrality of a theological culture that has all but disappeared today. For example, Jansenism, one of the century's main theological movements, was certainly too important and influential to dismiss as "a rather grim sect," even if it found little official approval either by the Church or by the court. Court preacher, theologian, and uncompromising champion of orthodox Catholicism, the bishop of Meaux was a charismatic spiritual figure and enjoyed the respect and trust of Louis XIV, who chose him to serve as Louis XIV 2nd edition to the dauphin. Mme de Maintenon made every effort to win his esteem. Buckley makes no mystery Louis XIV 2nd edition her antipathy to him, presenting Louis XIV 2nd edition with unsparing sarcasm as "a fanatical proponent of absolute monarchy, ordained by God: the divine right of a king to Louis XIV 2nd edition. For to speak of the divine right of kings is to return to affirming that God's express will is for all men to be ruled by Louis XIV 2nd edition royal government And yet, even for those who profoundly favored the monarchy, nothing could be less true in the eyes of the period's political thinkers, Even if Bossuet was convinced that the French model of hereditary monarchy was the best form of government--a government of which he was a subject and for whose future responsibilities he was actively preparing the dauphin; even if he recognized his King as the absolute authority Louis XIV 2nd edition literally "untied by chains" ; this does not mean, as Buckley believes, that he was a "fanatical" proponent of the alliance between throne and altar. This could well be forgiven as a simple oversight about one Louis XIV 2nd edition the many characters populating this highly enjoyable Louis XIV 2nd edition of more than four hundred pages, except that Buckley continues undaunted. She affirms that Bossuet. What is true, however, is that Bossuet reserved his full faith for the Church fathers. As a theologian convinced of the unambiguousness of Christian concepts, he distrusted the poetical expressions of mystics because they were equivocal, as is shown by the unforgiving position he took toward Quietism--a querelle in which, as we shall soon see, Mme de Maintenon was herself dangerously implicated. I experience no union with God Prayers bore me I meditate poorly. He wrote to her:. It is He [God] who causes dryness, impatience, and discouragement to arise within us in order to humiliate us through temptation and reveal us to ourselves just as we are. From that point on, however, pragmatism was no longer sufficient to guide her through the labyrinth of her own conscience, which was divided between sacred and profane love; between her mission of saving the King and the sin of concupiscence; between her need to safeguard the dignity of her public persona and her feelings of loneliness. Nor did it help her confront the vanity of her ambitions. And if religion did not prevent her from continuing in a compromised situation, it Louis XIV 2nd edition taught her many lessons: to distrust herself and others; to live with an awareness of her own sinfulness; and to strip herself progressively of worldly illusions. Quietism held that prayer should be as silent and passive as possible while one awaited illumination by the Holy Spirit. It encouraged abandoning the self completely to God's will. If Mme de Maintenon's religious fer-vor enabled her to gain the King's intimate confidence, it was, as Buckley writes, the "Affaire des poisons" that cemented his attachment to her. There were also darker rumors that she had participated in satanic rites and black masses to liquidate her rivals. The King, much distraught, realized that the "Affair of the Poisons" would not have come about without the complicity of a profoundly amoral society, and that he himself--at least insofar as his own sexual appetites were concerned--had set the example. He ended his relationship with Mme de Montespan and, with Mme de Maintenon's encouragement, changed his life. But the marriage Louis XIV 2nd edition her little happiness. Not only was it never officially acknowledged, she had no official title or status at the court, where protocol and position were rigidly Louis XIV 2nd edition. The secret arrangement exempted the King from all gestures of formal recognition while depriving his wife of all guarantees of security, making her entirely dependent on his benevolence. Their insurmountable differences in rank, not to mention the King's egotism, would have made an official marriage impossible. But Louis XIV 2nd edition detests the Sun King too much to content herself with these explanations. She maintains Louis XIV 2nd edition Louis wanted deliberately to mortify the pride of the woman he loved because he harbored an inferiority complex toward her. He feared being dominated: "in human terms, in intellect and character, it was she who was the stronger. This was especially true in the reign of the Sun King, who jealously guarded his authority and always enforced the strictest separation between affairs of state and affairs of the heart. He withstood this suffering with the same stoicism with which he faced the long series of family losses and the military reversals that marked his last years on the throne. Beginning with the revocation of the Edict of Louis XIV 2nd editionwhich forced many thousands of Protestants either to convert or face exile, the Sun King made a series of decisions that had terrible consequences. His attempts to dominate Europe brought the other European states into coalition against him, and the ensuing series of interminable wars left France exhausted and nearly bankrupt. Mme de Maintenon hated war as much as she detested violence and, contrary to what has long been believed, she was not responsible for the renewed religious persecutions. At the same time, she was not averse to using her influence with the King, especially in promoting the careers of those close to her. She also wished to restore her family's honor and used her new position to do so. That left her Protestant cousins, who stubbornly refused to embrace Catholicism even though this was the indispensable precondition for any kind of professional success. And so, even before the revocation of the Edict of Nantes, the marquise contrived to wrest the children of her beloved cousin Philippe de Villette from their parents, forced them to convert, and took charge of their educations. The boy was started on a brilliant military career, and the girl--the future Mme de Caylus--grew up under the vigilant eye of her Louis XIV 2nd edition and emerged as an unusually well- educated young woman. Not content with supervising the education of her own relations and Louis XIV 2nd edition of her royal consort's legitimate and illegitimate descendants, Mme de Maintenon founded, with Louis XIV's official support, the Royal Institute of Saint-Louis at Saint-Cyr in The institute was to educate some young women from the impoverished nobility and furnish them with dowries. As the daughter of fallen nobles herself, she could attest to the importance of education and knowledge of social propriety. Saint-Cyr, moreover, represented the sole official homage paid to her by Louis XIV and, as its founder and benefactor, it was only there that she could enjoy complete legitimacy. After the King's death inshe retired to Saint-Cyr until her death on April 15, Saint-Cyr was the first state-run institution dedicated to the systematic education, from childhood through adulthood, of girls of good family. She handpicked the instructors and, at least at the beginning, wanted them to be laypeople both she and the King distrusted the educational methods practiced in the conventswhile also insisting that the institute's first objective was to provide the girls with a Christian education. She divided the students by age into four forms, selected their readings and their leisure activities, and decided how their days would be organized. Jean Racine wrote his last two religious tragedies--"Esther" and "Athalie"Louis XIV 2nd edition based on biblical stories--on her commission for recitation by the pupils. She placed great importance on dialogue between teachers and students and on the priority of reason and reflection over memorization, while also insisting on the necessity of taking into account each student's character and personal outlook. At more than five thousand letters, it is not only one of the seventeenth century's most ample collections; it is also among the most remarkable for the diversity of those whom she addressed friends, relatives, and the women of Saint-Cyr, as well as royalty, popes, papal nuncios, bishops, cardinals, and civil servants and for the variety of subjects it touches on. Her letters can be admired for their elegant language and their masterful use of an entire spectrum of diverse stylistic and linguistic modes applied, time and again, to each correspondent in accordance with the rules of the epistolary art of the classical age. Read more at the New York Review of Books website. Martin's, Conley, S. Your vote is your voice! Louis XIV | Facts, Biography, Children, & Death | Britannica

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