What Happened To Marie Antoinette's Children? ~ Hypeghnewsroom

Marie Antoinette was a loving mother to her four children, who gave emotional support to the ailing monarch. She was born on 2nd November, 1755 and died on 16th October 1793.

Who Was Marie Antoinette?

Marie Antoinette was born on the 2nd of November 1755. She was born to Empress Maria Theresa and Emperor Francis I in Hofburg Palace, Vienna, Archduchy of Austria, Holy Roman Empire. However, Marie was the last Queen of France before the French Revolution.

She was raised with her sister, Maria Carolina, who was three years older, and with whom she had a lifelong close relationship.

Marie Antoinette has been depicted as a wasteful wife who meddled in her weak-willed husband, Louis XVI’s, political affairs. She was also a loving mother to her four children, who gave emotional support to the ailing monarch.

Marie got married to Louis in the year 1770, when she was 14 years and her husband was 15 years old. Due to either a medical or psychological difficulty on Louis’ behalf, their marriage went unfinished for several years.

What Happened To Marie Antoinette’s Children?

However, the main duty of Marie as a wife was to produce a male heir. In 1778, the couple gave birth to their first born Marie Therese. Marie gave birth to her second child, Louis Joseph in 1781, who then became his father’s heir, a role known as the “dauphin”.

Louis-Charles, Marie’s third child, was born in 1785, and many assumed he was von Fersen’s son. In the following year, Marie gave birth to her last child, Sophie but she was born prematurely.

What Happened To Marie Antoinette Children?

Marie Therese stayed in captivity until shortly before her 17th birthday in December 1795, with little knowledge of her family’s fate. She was first taken to her mother’s homeland of Austria after the Reign of Terror ended. Therese married her first cousin, Duc d’Angouleme. Her husband temporarily became King Louis XIX after his father abdicated six years later, during the 1830 Revolution.

Therese was crowned queen, but her husband abdicated in favor of his nephew less than half an hour later. She died in October 1851, at the age of 72. However, she was buried alongside her husband in what is now Slovenia.

In the summer of 1789, Marie and Louis were devastated after they lost their son Louis Joseph. He was seven years old. Louis Joseph died from tuberculosis of the spine.

In 1793, Louis XVI was held separately from his family and was executed. Marie was initially allowed to remain with her children but authorities soon separated them. However, Marie son, Louis-Charles, was locked in a dark, fetid chamber where he was fed meager rations, prevented seeing any outside visitors and physically abused by his jailers. Louis-Charles who was 10-year old died in June 1795, likely from tuberculosis worsen his mistreatment.