Princess Françoise of Orléans (1844–1925)

Françoise of Orléans
Duchess of Chartres
Born	(1844-08-14)14 August 1844 Neuilly-sur-Seine, France
Died	28 October 1925(1925-10-28) (aged 81) Château de Saint-Firmin, France
Burial	Chapelle royale de Dreux
Spouse	Prince Robert, Duke of Chartres ​ ​ (m. 1863; died 1910)​
Issue	Marie, Princess Valdemar of Denmark Prince Robert Prince Henri Marguerite, Duchess of Magenta Prince Jean, Duke of Guise
Names Françoise Marie Amélie d'Orléans
House	Orléans
Father	François, Prince of Joinville
Mother	Francisca of Brazil
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Princess Françoise Marie Amélie of Orléans (14 August 1844 – 28 October 1925) was a member of the House of Orléans and by marriage Duchess of Chartres.

Françoise d'Orléans was born in Neuilly-sur-Seine the daughter of Prince François, Prince of Joinville (son of King Louis Philippe I), and of Princess Francisca of Brazil (daughter of Emperor Peter I of Brazil).

On 11 June 1863 at Saint Raphael's Church in Kingston upon Thames, England, she married her first cousin Prince Robert, Duke of Chartres. They had five children. Princess Françoise died in Château de Saint-Firmin.

1. Princess Marie of Orléans (1865–1909), who in 1885 married Prince Valdemar of Denmark, son of King Christian IX of Denmark.
2. Prince Robert of Orléans (1866–1885)
3. Prince Henri of Orléans (1867–1901)
4. Princess Marguerite of Orléans (1869–1940), who in 1896 married Marie-Armand-Patrice de Mac-Mahon, Duke of Magenta, son of Patrice de Mac-Mahon, Duke of Magenta.
5. Prince Jean of Orléans (1874–1940), Duke of Guise, and Orléanist pretender to the throne of France as "Jean III", who, in 1899, married his first cousin Princess Isabelle of Orléans and had issue.

• (in French) Dominique Paoli, Fortunes et infortunes des princes d'Orléans 1848-1918, Artena, Paris, 2006.
• (in French) Jean-Charles Volkmann, Généalogie des rois et des princes, Éditions Jean-Paul Gisserot, Paris, 1998.