page_title: Marie Thérèse Louise of Savoy, Princesse de Lamballe
section_title: Life
hierarchical_section_title: Marie Thérèse Louise of Savoy, Princesse de Lamballe / Life
caption_attribution_description: Italiano: Maria Teresa Luisa di Savoia, principessa di Lamballe, amica intima della regina Maria Antonietta.
context_page_description: Princess Marie Thérèse Louise of Savoy was a member of the Savoy-Carignano cadet branch of the House of Savoy. She was married at the age of 17 to Louis Alexandre de Bourbon-Penthièvre, Prince de Lamballe, the heir to the greatest fortune in France. After her marriage, which lasted a year, she went to court and became the confidante of Queen Marie Antoinette. She was killed in the massacres of September 1792 during the French Revolution.
context_section_description: Marie Thérèse was born in Turin. Her father was Louis Victor, Prince of Carignano, a maternal grandson of Victor Amadeus II of Sardinia and his mistress Jeanne d'Albert de Luynes.
  Her mother, Landgravine Christine of Hesse-Rheinfels-Rotenburg, was the daughter of Ernest Leopold, Landgrave of Hesse-Rotenburg and Princess Eleonore of Löwenstein-Wertheim-Rochefort (1686–1753). Her aunts included, Polyxena of Hesse-Rheinfels-Rotenburg, the wife of Charles Emmanuel III of Sardinia (Victor Amadeus III was her first cousin) and Caroline, Princess of Condé and wife of Louis Henri, Duke of Bourbon. Louis Joseph, Prince of Condé was another first cousin who was at the French court. Not much is known of her childhood.
caption: Marie Therese de Savoie, princesse de Lamballe by Louis-Édouard Rioult [fr] (1790–1855)
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