Marguerite Louise d'Orléans

Marguerite Louise d'Orléans

Marguerite Louise d'Orléans (28 July 1645 – 17 September 1721) was a French princess who became grand duchess of Tuscany as the wife of Grand Duke Cosimo III de' Medici. Libertine and unruly in conduct from an early age, her relations with her husband and his family were tempestuous and often bitter, with repeated appeals for mediation to Louis XIV. Nevertheless, three children were born to the couple: Grand Prince Ferdinando, Electress Palatine Anna Maria Luisa, and Grand Duke Gian Gastone. In June 1675, five years after her husband had succeeded to the grand duchy and four years after the birth of their youngest child, Marguerite Louise and her husband separated and she retired with a pension to a convent on the outskirts of Paris. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Marguerite Louise d'Orléans has received more than 232,852 page views. Her biography is available in 21 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 19 in 2019). Marguerite Louise d'Orléans is the 281st most popular nobleman (up from 355th in 2019), the 1,401st most popular biography from France (up from 1,789th in 2019) and the 46th most popular French Nobleman.