° Fontainebleau - 01/11/1661
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Louis de France (Monseigneur)
(Fontainebleau 1661 – Meudon 14 april 1711), dauphin van Frankrijk, bijgenaamd : le Grand Dauphin, was de oudste zoon van Lodewijk XIV. Daar hij vóór zijn vader overleed, heeft hij nimmer de troon bestegen. In 1679 huwde hij Marianne van Beieren. Hij was de vader van o.a. Lodewijk, hertog van Bourgondië, en van Filips, hertog van Anjou, de latere Filips V van Spanje.
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byname LE GRAND DAUPHIN, or MONSEIGNEUR (b. Nov. 1, 1661--d. April 14, 1711, Meudon, Fr.), son of Louis XIV and Marie-Thérèse of Austria; his death preceded his father's (1715), and the French crown went to his own grandson, Louis XV. In 1688 he received nominal command of the French armies in Germany, led by Vauban, but throughout his life he depended on the favours of his strong-willed father and acquired a reputation for timidity, subservience, and--despite an education under the philosopher Bossuet--general mediocrity.
He married (1680) Marie-Anne-Christine-Victoire of Bavaria (d. 1690) and had three sons: Louis, duc de Bourgogne (1682-1712), who himself was dauphin for two years (1711-12) and was the father of Louis XV; Philippe, duc d'Anjou (1683-1746), who became King Philip V of Spain; and Charles, duc de Berry (1686-1714).
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