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==Royalty==

* [[Éléonore Desmier d'Olbreuse]] (1639–1722) was the wife of [[George William, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg]], and the maternal grandmother of [[George II of Great Britain]].{{Explain|date=December 2019|reason=Is she known as GoE? By whom?}}

* [[Elizabeth Charlotte, Madame Palatine]] (1652-1722), was the second wife of [[Philippe I, Duke of Orléans]] (younger brother of [[Louis XIV of France]]). Through her daughter she was the grandmother of [[Francis I, Holy Roman Emperor|Francis I]], Holy Roman Emperor, the husband of [[Maria Theresa]], and great-grandmother of [[Joseph II]] and [[Leopold II, Holy Roman Emperor|Leopold II]] (both Holy Roman Emperors) and [[Marie Antoinette]], the last [[Queen of France]] before the [[French Revolution]].<ref>{{cite book|title=Le Temps retrouvé XXVI: Relation de la Cour de France|publisher=Mercure de France|author=[[Ezechiel Spanheim|Spanheim, Ezechiel]]|year=1973|location=Paris, France|pages=74–79, 305–308}}</ref>