Louis Thomas of Savoy was a Count of Soissons

Count of Soissons

This is a list of those who bore the title Count of Soissons and ruled Soissons and its civitas or diocese as a county in the Middle Ages. The title continued in use into modern times, but without ties to the actual Soissonnais.-Carolingians:...

 and Prince of Savoy

House of Savoy

The House of Savoy was formed in the early 11th century in the historical Savoy region. Through gradual expansion, it grew from ruling a small county in that region to eventually rule the Kingdom of Italy from 1861 until the end of World War II, king of Croatia and King of Armenia...

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Biography

Louis Thomas was the eldest son of Eugene Maurice, Count of Soissons and Olympia Mancini, as well as the oldest brother of Prince Eugene of Savoy

Prince Eugene of Savoy

Prince Eugene of Savoy , was one of the most successful military commanders in modern European history, rising to the highest offices of state at the Imperial court in Vienna. Born in Paris to aristocratic Italian parents, Eugene grew up around the French court of King Louis XIV...

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He married the beautiful Urania de La Cropte, whom Saint-Simon

Louis de Rouvroy, duc de Saint-Simon

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 had once described as "radiant as the glorious morn". They had one son and a daughter. His daughter eventually inherited Eugene's estate.

His maternal cousins included the Duke of Vendôme as well as the Duke of Bouillon

Emmanuel Théodose de La Tour d'Auvergne (1668–1730)

Emmanuel Théodose de La Tour d'Auvergne was a French nobleman and ruler of the Soveriegn Duchy of Bouillon. He was the son of Godefroy Maurice de La Tour d'Auvergne and his wife Marie Anne Mancini...

 and Louis Henri de La Tour d'Auvergne

Louis Henri de La Tour d'Auvergne

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. His paternal cousins included Victor Amadeus I, Prince of Carignano and Louis William, Margrave of Baden-Baden

Louis William, Margrave of Baden-Baden

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After the death of his father and the flight of his mother to Spain due to her involvement in the notorious Poison affair

Poison affair

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, Louis Thomas and Urania were charged, along with his paternal grandmother

Marie de Bourbon, Countess of Soissons

Marie de Bourbon, Countess of Soissons was the wife of Thomas Francis, Prince of Carignano.-Biography:Marie Marguerite de Bourbon was born at the Hôtel de Soissons in Paris, was the second daughter and youngest child of Charles de Bourbon, comte de Soissons and his wife Anne de Montafié...

, with the rearing of his younger brothers. Eugene was never to forget the couple's loving surrogate parentage.

Louis Thomas obtained a commission as an officer in the French Army, but Louis XIV had amorous designs on his wife. Urania, however, spurned the king's romantic advances. Angered, Louis dismissed Louis Thomas from the army, and, when Louis Thomas sought a position abroad, terminated his pension and dues.

In 1699, all but bankrupt, Louis Thomas sought the aid of his younger brother, Eugene, in Vienna. With Eugene's help, he obtained a commission in the Austrian Imperial Army. He was killed in action near Landau

Landau

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 against the French at the onset of the War of the Spanish Succession

War of the Spanish Succession

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 on 24 August 1702.

Issue

• Princess Maria Anna Victoria of Savoy (1683–1763) Mademoiselle de Soissons married Prince Joseph of Saxe-Hildburghausen
  Prince Joseph of Saxe-Hildburghausen
  Joseph Maria Frederick Wilhelm of Saxe-Hildburghausen, Duke in Saxony , was an Austrian General and Field Marshal. He is best known for commanding the Franco-Austrian forces at the Battle of Rossbach.-Early life:He was the third but second surviving son of Ernst, Duke of Saxe-Hildburghausen and...
  
  , Duke in Saxony, son of Ernest, Duke of Saxe-Hildburghausen; had no issue;
• Louis Thomas (1685–1695)
• Therese Anne Louise (1686–1736), no issue
• Prince Emmanuel Thomas of Savoy (1687–1729) Count of Soissons
  Count of Soissons
  This is a list of those who bore the title Count of Soissons and ruled Soissons and its civitas or diocese as a county in the Middle Ages. The title continued in use into modern times, but without ties to the actual Soissonnais.-Carolingians:...
  
  . He married Maria Theresia of Liechtenstein and had issue;
• Maurice (1690–1710)
• Eugene (1692–1712)

Ancestry