Françoise Marie de Bourbon [SEP] father
Françoise Marie de Bourbon
Françoise Marie de Bourbon, "légitimée de France" (4 May 1677 – 1 February 1749) was the youngest illegitimate daughter of Louis XIV of France and his "maîtresse-en-titre", Françoise-Athénaïs, Marquise de Montespan. At the age of 14, she was wed to her first cousin Philippe d'Orléans, future Regent of France during the minority of Louis XV. Through four of the eight children she bore him in an unhappy marriage she became the ancestress of several of
Altesse sérénissime) "Madame la duchesse de Bourbon".
Her husband was the eldest son of Louise Françoise de Bourbon - eldest illegitimate daughter of Louis XIV and Madame de Montespan and an old lover of Marie Anne's father. In fact, Louis Henri's younger sister, also named Marie Anne de Bourbon, was rumored to be an illegitimate daughter of Marie Anne's father, "le Grand Conti".
The new couple, despite being married for seven years, were never to have any children. During her