Elisabeth Theresa of Lorraine (Château de Lunéville, 15 October 1711 – 3 July 1741) was Queen consort of Sardinia. She has no surviving descendants.

Biography

She was the ninth of eleven children of Leopold, Duke of Lorraine, and Élisabeth Charlotte d'Orléans, niece of Louis XIV. Her eldest brother became Francis I, Holy Roman Emperor, four years after her death. Maria Theresa of Austria was her sister in law; thus she was an aunt of Marie Antoinette and Maria Carolina of Austria.

Her father died in 1729 when she was 17. She and her sister were proposed as wives for their first cousin, the widowed Louis d'Orléans, Duke of Orléans. He refused outright, much to the annoyance of her mother.

Upon the marriage of her brother, the Lorraine family became a rather attactive family to marry into, two daughters of Charles VI, Holy Roman Emperor having done so already; the already twice widowed Charles Emmanuel III of Sardinia asked for her hand in marriage and the marriage went ahead;

The couple married on 1 April 1737; Charles Emmanuel was her first cousin, his mother being Anne Marie d'Orléans - older half sister of her mother Élisabeth Charlotte. The marriage produced three children.

Elisabeth Theresa died at the age of 29, of complications of the birth of her last child. She was buried in the Cathedral S. Giovanni Battista, and moved in 1786 to the Basilica of Superga in Turin.

In 1775, her youngest son Benedetto married his niece but the couple had no children.

Issue

• Prince Carlo Francesco Francesco Maria Augusto of Savoy (1 December 1738 – 25 March 1745)
• Princess Vittoria Margharita of Savoy (Turin, 22 June 1740 - Turin, 14 July 1742)
• Prince Benedetto Maria Maurizio of Savoy, Duke of Chablais, (Turin, 21 June 1741 - Turin, 4 January 1808)

Ancestry

Titles, styles, honours and arms

Titles and styles

• 15 October 1711 - 1737 Her Highness Princess Élisabeth Thérèse of Lorraine
• 1 April 1737 – 3 July 1741 Her Majesty the Queen of Sardinia