Louis Philippe II, Duke of Orléans
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| Duke of Orléans | |||||
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| Born |
13 April 1747 Château de Saint Cloud, Saint-Cloud, France |
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| Died | 6 November 1793 (aged 46) Paris, France (executed) |
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| Burial | Madeleine Cemetery, Paris | ||||
| Spouse | Louise Marie Adélaïde de Bourbon | ||||
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Louis Philippe I Antoine Philippe, Duke of Montpensier Adélaïde, Princess of Orléans Louis Charles, Count of Beaujolais |
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| House | House of Orléans | ||||
| Father | Louis Philippe d'Orléans | ||||
| Mother | Louise Henriette de Bourbon | ||||
| Religion | Roman Catholicism | ||||
| Signature | _at_the_baptism_of_the_Duke_of_Berry.jpg){kind=small} |
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| Louis Philippe Joseph d'Orléans |
Louis Philippe Joseph d'Orléans (13 April 1747 – 6 November 1793) commonly known as Philippe, was a member of a cadet branch of the House of Bourbon, the ruling dynasty of France. He actively supported the French Revolution and adopted the name Philippe Égalité, but was nonetheless guillotined during the Reign of Terror. His son Louis-Philippe became King of the French after the July Revolution of 1830. Following his career, the term Orléanist came to be attached to the movement in France that favoured constitutional monarchy.
Louis Philippe Joseph d'Orléans was the son of Louis Philippe d'Orléans, Duke of Chartres, and Louise Henriette de Bourbon.
Through his father, Philippe was a member of the House of Orléans, a cadet branch of the French royal family. His mother came from a more distant cadet branch, the House of Bourbon-Conti. He was born at the Château de Saint Cloud, one of the residences of the Duke of Orléans a few miles west of Paris. His eldest sister, born in 1745, had died when six months old. His parents had another daughter, Louise Marie Thérèse Bathilde d'Orléans.
After his grandfather's death in 1752, Philippe d'Orléans inherited the title of Duke of Chartres. In 1769 he married Louise Marie Adélaïde de Bourbon, daughter of his cousin, the Duke of Penthiêvre, an Admiral of France and the richest man in the country. Since it was certain that his wife would become the richest woman in France upon the death of her father, Louis Philippe was able to play a political role in court equal to that of his great-grandfather Philippe II, Duke of Orléans, who had been the Regent of France during the minority of King Louis XV.
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