Élisabeth Charlotte of Lorraine was a Princess of Lorraine.
Background
Élisabeth Charlotte Gabrièle de Lorraine, named after her mother, was born at the Ducal Palace of Lorraine, in Nancy, the capital of the Duchy of Lorraine in which her father was the reigning Duke. Her mother a member of the House of Bourbon, then ruling the Kingdom of France.
Career
She died of smallpox aged 10. She was the Titular Abbess of Remiremont. Her father, Leopold, Duke of Lorraine, had wanted her to become the Abbess of the prestigious abbey at Remiremont, a Benedictine abbey near Remiremont, Vosges.
Her father pressed the then abbess, Dorothea Maria of Salm to press the Professors in Sorbonne, the historic University of Paris in Paris.
Despite this, the professors did not reply before her death aged 10. The three children died within seven days of each other.
She was buried in the Ducal Crypt at the Church of Saint-François-des-Cordeliers, Nancy, France. Her younger brother Francis Stephen became the Holy Roman Emperor.
Her youngest sister, Anne Charlotte, whom she never met, was later Abbess of Remiremont.
At the time of her death, her mother was pregnant with a future Queen of Sardinia. Titles and styles
21 October 1700 – 4 May 1711 Her Highness Princess Élisabeth Charlotte of Lorraine.
Membership
The abbey had been closely associated with the House of Lorraine, many of its abbesses being members of the Lorraine family.