Léonor d'Orléans, duc de Longueville

He was the son of François, marquis of Rothelin,[1] and Jacqueline de Rohan, Marquise de Rothelin.[2] He was the grandson of Louis I d'Orléans, duc de Longueville[1] and he succeeded his first cousin, François III d'Orléans as duc de Longueville. He married Marie de Bourbon, Duchess of Estouteville,[3] daughter of François I Bourbon and Adrienne d’Estouteville.

Louis died in 1573, after returning from the siege of La Rochelle,[4] at Blois and was buried at Châteaudun.

Leonor and Marie had:

• Henri I d'Orléans, duc de Longueville[3]
• François III d'Orléans, comte de Saint-Pol[3]
• Antoinette d’Orléans (1572–1618), married Charles de Gondi,[3] 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

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