Léonor d'Orléans, duc de Longueville

Léonor d'Orléans-Longueville from a 19th-century print

Léonor d'Orléans (1540 – 7 August 1573) 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 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 (1539–1601), daughter of François I Bourbon (1491–1545) and Adrienne d’Estouteville (1512–1560). He died at Blois and was buried at Châteaudun.

Issue

• Henri I d'Orléans, duc de Longueville
• François III d'Orléans, comte de Saint-Pol
• Antoinette d’Orléans (1572–1618), married Charles de Gondi, mother of Henri de Gondi, duc de Retz
• Éléonore d’Orléans (1573–1639), married in 1596 à Charles Goyon de Matignon (1564–1648).
• Two unmarried daughters

Ancestry

Sources

• L'Art de vérifier les dates (1819)