Henriette Catherine de Joyeuse


Henriette Catherine de Joyeuse was the daughter of Henri de Joyeuse and Catherine de Nogaret de La Valette. She married her first husband, Henri de Bourbon, Duke of Montpensier, on 15 May 1597 and her second husband, Charles, Duke of Guise, on 6 January 1611.

Marriages and children

From her first marriage to Henri de Bourbon she had one child:
  1. Marie de Bourbon, Duchess of Montpensier, who married Gaston Jean Baptiste de France, duc d'Orléans; parents of la Grande Mademoiselle
From her second marriage to Charles, Duke of Guise she had ten children:
  1. François de Lorraine
  2. Twin boys, who were very frail and sickly. They died on the same day.
  3. Henri de Lorraine, Duke of Guise, also Archbishop of Reims
  4. Marie de Lorraine, Duchess of Guise
  5. A girl, called Mademoiselle de Joinville, who was born healthy but caught a cold in the winter of 1617 and died shortly thereafter.
  6. Charles Louis de Lorraine, styled Duke of Joyeuse
  7. Louis de Lorraine, Duke of Joyeuse, also Duke of Angoulême
  8. Françoise Renée de Lorraine, Abbess of Montmartre
  9. Roger de Lorraine