Louis II d'Orléans, Duke of Longueville

Louis II d'Orléans, duc de Longueville and comte de Dunois (1510 – 9 June 1537) was a French aristocrat and the first husband of Mary of Guise, who later became queen consort of Scotland and mother to Mary, Queen of Scots. He was the second son of Louis I d'Orléans, duc de Longueville by his wife Jeanne of Hochberg, and succeeded his brother Claude when the latter died in 1524.

He married Mary of Guise on 4 August 1534 at the Louvre Palace. During their brief marriage, the couple had two children:

• François, born 30 October 1535, who would later succeed to the dukedom
• Louis, a posthumous child born 4 August 1537, who died four months later.

Louis died at Rouen on 9 June 1537, Mary would later marry James V of Scotland.

Ancestry

Ancestors of Louis II, Duke of Longueville

8. Jean, Count of Dunois 4. François I, Duke of Longueville 9. Marie d'Harcourt, Lady of Parthenay 2. Louis I, Duke of Longueville 10. Louis I, Duke of Savoy 5. Agnes of Savoy 11. Anne of Lusignan 1. Louis II, Duke of Longueville 12. Rudolf IV, Margrave of Hachberg-Sausenberg 6. Philip, Margrave of Hachberg-Sausenberg 13. Margaret of Vienne 3. Johanna, Countess of Neuchâtel 14. Amadeus IX, Duke of Savoy 7. Maria of Savoy 15. Yolande of Valois

Sources

• Carroll, Stuart (1998). Noble Power During the French Wars of Religion: The Guise Affinity and the Catholic Cause in Normandy. Cambridge University Press.
• Potter, David (1995). A History of France, 1460-1560: The Emergence of a Nation State. St. Martin's Press.
• Warnicke, Retha M. (2006). Mary Queen of Scots. Taylor & Francis.