Charlotte d'Argenteau, Countess d'Esneux (18 October 1678 – 23 July 1710),[1] a patrician heiress from the Holy Roman Empire, was the beloved second wife of the English Jacobite exile Thomas Bruce, 2nd Earl of Ailesbury.
Ailesbury was after all more than 20 years older than Charlotte; more importantly, he had fled England to avoid being condemned to death as a traitor.
Ailesbury settled in Brussels so happily that when in time the English government made it clear that he could return home, he no longer had any wish to do so.
After ten years of marriage, Charlotte died of a fever in July 1710,[2] aged 31, and was buried in the Church of the Brigittines, Brussels.
Their daughter Marie Thérèse became the wife of Maximilian, Prince of Hornes, and among Charlotte's great-grandchildren was Princess Louise of Stolberg-Gedern (the Jacobite consort from 1772 to 1788).