the opposition. King Michael died on 10 November 1673. She remained in Poland for a couple of years after his death. Duchess of Lorraine Eleonore initially stayed in Poland in her dowager seat at Toruń. It was suggested by the Habsburgs that she marry Charles V of Lorraine, who was then to be elected king of Poland as the Habsburg candidate, benefitted by the popularity Eleonore enjoyed in Poland. Instead, however, the French opposition party won the election of 1674 under the leadership of John III Sobieski. In the spring of 1675, Eleonore departed Poland for Vienna. Eleonore married Charles V of Lorraine on 4 February 1678 in Wiener Neustadt, Austria. Since the Duchy of Lorraine was under French occupation, the couple resided in Innsbrück, in Austria. They were the parents of six children. She passed to her heirs the inheritance of the Gonzagas of Mantua. When she married Charles, there were fears in Poland that she was planning to overthrow king John III Sobieski and install her own spouse as king. Eleonora did keep in contact with Pro-Habsburg Polish magnates such as Dymitr Wiśniowiecki, Kalisz Voivode and Jan Opaliński, but no such plan was ever realised. When John III Sobieski died in 1696, however, she supported her son Leopold's candidacy to the Polish throne, though he lost the election. When she was widowed in 1690, the title Duke of Lorraine and the right to the Duchy of Lorraine was inherited by her eldest son Leopold. Since Leopold was eleven years old, Eleonore became nominal regent during his minority. As his regent, she worked to end the French occupation of Lorraine and restore the Duchy's independence. Her goal was reached when the Duchy of Lorraine was restored at the Peace of Ryswick in 1697. She died not long after. Eleonore died at the age of 44, having outlived both of her husbands and two of her children. Issue Leopold, Duke of Lorraine (1679–1729) Charles Joseph of Lorraine (1680–1715) Eleanor of Lorraine (1682) Charles Ferdinand of Lorraine (1683–1685) Joseph Innocent Emanuel of Lorraine (1685–1705) Francis Anton Joseph of Lorraine (1689–1715) Ancestry See also Częstochowa References Sources 1653 births 1697 deaths Polish queens consort Grand Duchesses of Lithuania Prussian royal consorts 17th-century House of Habsburg 17th-century women of the Holy Roman Empire Burials at the Imperial Crypt Austrian princesses House of Lorraine Regents of Lorraine Remarried royal consorts People from Regensburg Duchesses