Louis-Charles, Count of Beaujolais

Prince Louis-Charles of Orléans, Count of Beaujolais (born in Paris, October 17, 1779 - died in Malta, May 30, 1808) was the youngest son of Louis-Philippe-Joseph, Duke of Orléans. His older brother was King Louis-Philippe I of the French.

Louis-Charles, Count of Beaujolais, had two brothers and a sister. His elder brother, the Duke of Orléans, who accompanied him to Malta, was later to be crowned King of the French, though he preferred to be known as Le Roi Citoyen. The Count's second brother, Antoine-Philippe, Duke of Montpensier, died of consumption the year before the Count went to Malta. His sister, Adelaide, better known as Mademoiselle d'Orléans, was to die in 1847.

The Count had been in Sicily with the Duke of Orléans before they arrived in Malta in 1808. His health deteriorating rapidly, the Count became ill and died of consumption on the morning of May 30, 1808, a fortnight after his arrival on the island, administered by the vice-parish priest of Porto Salvo Church. On May 31, the Count's body was embalmed and then lay in state in a large hall of the house. The funeral took place with the greatest magnificence, as befitted royalty on June 3.

He had an illegitimate child by Anna Moscati (1792-1853), illegitimate daughter of Senatore Alexandre Moscati and Donna Maria Teresa Testaferrata.


 * Teresa Gauci-Beaujolais, de jure Baroness di Frigenuini (1808-1874) married in 1838 Andrea dei Baroni Abela. Had issue.

Louis-Charles also fathered a child who became the Countess of Charleville, as wife of the second Earl of Charleville.

He was laid to rest April 10, 1818 in St. John's Cathedral, ten years after his death from consumption.