text: **Personal life**
  
  **Marriages and children**
  
  Louis and his wife Maria Theresa of Spain had six children from the marriage contracted 
  for them in 1660. However, only one child, the eldest, survived to adulthood: Louis,*le*
  *Grand Dauphin*, known as*Monseigneur*. Maria Theresa died in 1683, whereupon Louis 
  remarked that she had never caused him unease on any other occasion. 
  
  Despite evidence of affection early on in their marriage, Louis was never faithful to Maria 
  Theresa. He took a series of mistresses, both official and unofficial. Among the better 
  documented are Louise de La Vallière (with whom he had five children; 1661–1667), 
  Bonne de Pons d'Heudicourt (1665), Catherine Charlotte de Gramont (1665), Françoise- 
  Athénaïs, Marquise de Montespan (with whom he had seven children; 1667–1680), Anne 
  de Rohan-Chabot (1669–1675), Claude de Vin des Œillets (one child born in 1676), 
  Isabelle de Ludres (1675–1678), and Marie Angélique de Scorailles (1679–1681), who died at age 
  19 in childbirth. Through these liaisons, he produced numerous illegitimate children, most of 
  whom he married to members of cadet branches of the royal family. 
  
  Wedding of Louis and Maria 
  Theresa 