Armande de La Tour d'Auvergne

Armande de La Tour d'Auvergne (28 August 1697 – 13 April 1717) was a French noblewoman and Princess of Epinoy by marriage. She died without issue.

Armande
Princess of Epinoy
Born	(1697-08-28)28 August 1697
Died	13 April 1717(1717-04-13) (aged 19)
Spouse	Louis de Melun
Names Armande de La Tour d'Auvergne
House	La Tour d'Auvergne
Father	Emmanuel Théodose de La Tour d'Auvergne
Mother	Marie Armande Victoire de La Trémouille

Biography

Armande was the eldest of seven children born to Emmanuel Théodose de La Tour d'Auvergne - sovereign Duke of Bouillon - and his first wife Marie Armande Victoire de La Trémouille. Her mother died in 1717 and her father married three more times and had three more children.

She married Louis de Melun, Duke of Joyeuse and Prince of Epinoy on 23 February 1716. His parents were Louis de Melun and Élisabeth Thérèse de Lorraine.^[1]

Armande died in 1717 a month after her mother. Her husband was later the secret spouse of Marie Anne de Bourbon (1697–1741), daughter of Monsieur le Duc and Madame la Duchesse, daughter of Madame de Montespan. Louis de Melun later disappeared in 1724 under mysterious circumstances.

Ancestry

Ancestors of Armande de La Tour d'Auvergne

8. Frédéric Maurice de La Tour d'Auvergne, Duke of Bouillon 4. Godefroy Maurice de La Tour d'Auvergne, Duke of Bouillon 9. Countess Eleonora van den Bergh 2. Emmanuel Théodose de La Tour d'Auvergne, Duke of Bouillon 10. Michele Lorenzo Mancini 5. Marie Anne Mancini 11. Girolama Mazzarini 1. Armande de La Tour d'Auvergne 12. Henri Charles de La Trémoïlle 6. Charles Belgique Hollande de La Trémoille 13. Émilie of Hesse-Kassel 3. Marie Victoire de La Trémoïlle 14. Charles, Duke of Créquy 7. Madeleine de Créquy 15. Anne Armande de Saint-Gelais

References and notes

1. His sister was Anne Julie de Melun, mother of the Maréshal de Soubise and Madame de Marsan