Élisabeth Charlotte d'Orléans

Élisabeth Charlotte d'Orléans
Princess of Commercy
Portrait by the workshop of Pierre Gobert
Duchess consort of Lorraine
Tenure13 October 1698 – 27 March 1729
Born(1676-09-13)13 September 1676
Château de Saint-Cloud, Kingdom of France
Died23 December 1744(1744-12-23) (aged 68)
Château de Commercy, Duchy of Lorraine, Holy Roman Empire
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(m. 1698; died 1729)
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HouseOrléans
FatherPhilippe I, Duke of Orléans
MotherElisabeth Charlotte of the Palatinate

Élisabeth Charlotte d'Orléans (13 September 1676 – 23 December 1744) was a petite-fille de France and duchess of Lorraine and Bar by her marriage to Duke Leopold. She was regent of the duchy during the minority (1729–1730) and absence (1730–1737) of her son and suo jure princess of Commercy from 1737–1744. Among her children was Francis I, Holy Roman Emperor, the co-founder of the House of Habsburg-Lorraine.