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Béatrice Hiéronyme de Lorraine (1 July 1662–9 February 1738) was a member of the House of Lorraine and was the Abbess of Remiremont. She was a member of the household of ''Le Grand Dauphin'' and was the supposed wife of her cousin the ''Chevalier de Lorraine''. She died childless. ==Biography== Béatrice Hiéronyme was the eldest daughter of François Marie de Lorraine, Prince de Lillebonne and his second wife Anne de Lorraine. She never married. Known as ''Mademoiselle de Lillebonne'' in her youth, she was a member of the Household of Louis, ''le Grand Dauphin'' before she took a religious path in life. She was very close to her sister Élisabeth. While in the household of the Dauphin, she became close to Louise Françoise de Bourbon known as ''Madame la Duchesse''.〔Eldest surviving daughter of Louis XIV and Madame de Montespan and wife of Louis de Bourbon, ''Monsieur le Duc''〕 She was also close to her uncle Charles Henri, Prince of Vaudémont and the Duke of Vendôme.〔Goldhammer, Arthur, ''Saint-Simon and the court of Louis XIV'' (memoirs of Saint-Simon ), The University of Chicago Press, London, 2001, p.33〕 A member of the ''House of Guise'' founded by Claude, Duke of Guise,〔As the son of René II, Duke of Lorraine, he was given the Duchy of Guise as an ''appanage'' which was made a peerage by Francis I of France in 1528〕 he was a ''Prince of Lorraine'' as a male line descendant of René II, Duke of Lorraine. At court, she, like his Lorraine family, held the rank of ''Foreign Prince'', a rank which was below that of the immediate Royal Family and Princes of the Blood. In 1686, she was a proposed bride of Francesco II d'Este, Duke of Modena. Louis XIV had supported the marriage but later said he would not involve himself in the union. Instead, he married Margherita Maria Farnese and never had any children.〔Francesco died in 1694 without an heir and Modena passed to his uncle Rinaldo d'Este, Duke of Modena, who married Charlotte Felicity of Brunswick-Lüneburg〕 His paternal first cousins included the Chevalier de Lorraine〔 (lover of Philippe I, Duke of Orléans), Count of Armagnac; his maternal cousins included Louis XIV of France ''and'' the above mentioned Duke of Orléans. She was made the coadjutrice of Remiremont in 1705; In 1710,〔 she became the Abbess of Remiremont, a prestigious Benedictine abbey near Remiremont, Vosges, France. Taking over from Christina of Salm, she would remain the Princess-Abbess till her death in 1738.〔 She died in Paris. Saint-Simon said that she married her cousin Philippe de Lorraine. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Béatrice Hiéronyme de Lorraine」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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