When the Royal Family was arrested, its members were stripped of their titles and ordered to revert to an ordinary surname. Bourbon might have been more appropriate, but the name chosen for them was taken from the founder of the dynasty of French Kings, Hugues Capet. so Louis XVI was referred to at his trial as 'Louis Capet', and after his execution Marie-Antoinette became 'La Veuve Capet' - widow Capet.
Widow Capet.
The name of her executioner was Charles Henri Sanson.
King Louis XVI married Marie-Antoinette at the age of 15, 22 years before the beginning of his reign.
King Louis XVI and his wife Queen Marie Antoinette were king and queen of France from 1774 until 1793. They were eventually executed during the most violent phase of the revolution: the terror.
No she was not. She was married to his grandson Louis XVI
Louis XVI was the grandson of Louis XV. Louis XV once had a son, the official dauphin (crownprince), but he died at a very young age of smallpox. Therefore, Louis' grandson became the new dauphin, and eventually Louis XVI. Marie Antoinette was the archduchess of Austria and wife of Louis XVI
Louis XVI of France.
His name was Louis XVI Auguste of France.
His name was Louis XVI Auguste of France.
Louis XV was the grandfather of her future husband, Louis XVI. Therefore, Marie Antoinette always referred to him as her dear grandpapa. I guess you could say that he was her grandfather-in-law.
Marie Antoinette's husband was King Louis XVI of France. Both of them were guillotined during the French Revolution.
Marie Antoinette was the Queen of France during the French Revolution, wife to King Louis XVI. After her husband was deposed and France was declared a republic, Louis was officially renamed "Citizen Louis Capet" (Hugh Capet was the founder of the Capetian dynasty of French kings, from which Louis was ultimately descended). Louis was executed for treason and attempting to surpress the Revolution in 1793. Marie-Antoinette was then officially called "the widow Capet" as a reflection of the fact that her husband was dead - French royalists of course maintained that she was still Queen of France. Marie Antoinette was herself executed shortly afterwards.
alongside her husband king Louis the sixteenth (correct me if I'm wrong) she started the revolution called the french revolution.
Yes, during the reign of her husband King Louis XVI.
Yes they are related. Marie Antoinette's husband and Elizabeth share a common ancestry from King Louis IX of France and Marguerite de Provence.
When Marie Antoinette came to France, she first met her future husband (Louis XVI) and his family in the Bois de Bologne, a forest nearby Paris.
Marie Antoinette was, after a trial, decapitated by the Revolutionists, together with her husband Louis XVI of France in 1793.She was guillotined.
She was married off to the dauphin of France, the future King Louis XVI.