Louis, Count of Armagnac
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Louis of Lorraine (7 December 1641 – 13 June 1718) was the Count of Armagnac[1] from his father's death in 1666. The Grand Squire of France, he was a member of a cadet branch of the House of Guise, itself a cadet branch of the sovereign House of Lorraine. His descendants include Albert II, Prince of Monaco, Umberto II of Italy, and Diana Álvares Pereira de Melo, 11th Duchess of Cadaval.
Biography
Louis de Lorraine was born in Paris to
He, like his father before him, was the
At the death of his father in 1666, he inherited the title comte d'Armagnac which, although it evoked the family of the great House of Armagnac, did not entail possession of the vast lands and semi-sovereign authority wielded by the extinct, medieval Counts of Armagnac.
He was buried at the
Marriage and issue
On 7 October 1660 he was married in Paris to Catherine de
- Henri of Lorraine, Count of Brionne (15 November 1661 – 3 April 1713) married Marie Madeleine d'Épinay and had issue; his great grand daughter Joséphine de Lorraine was the grand mother of Charles Albert of Sardinia thus an ancestor of the House of Savoy;
- Marguerite of Lorraine (17 November 1662 – 16 December 1730) married at Versailles on 25 July 1675 by proxy Nuno Álvares Pereira de Melo, 1st Duke of Cadaval and had issue;
- Françoise of Lorraine (28 February 1664) died in infancy;
- François Armand of Lorraine, chevalier de Lorraine (13 February 1665 – 9 June 1728) never married, Abbot of Royaumont;
- Camille of Lorraine, Count of Chamilly (25 October 1666 – 6 November 1715) never married; died at the Château de Lunéville;
- Armande of Lorraine (8 July 1668 – 1681) died young;
- Isabelle of Lorraine (12 June 1671) died in infancy;
- Philippe of Lorraine (29 June 1673 – 1677) died in infancy;
- Marie of Lorraine (12 August 1674 – 30 October 1724) married Antonio I, Prince of Monaco at Versailles 13 June 1688 and had issue; they were parents of Louise Hippolyte Grimaldi, suo jure Princess of Monaco; subsequent Sovereign Princes of Monaco descend from them;
- Louis Alphonse of Lorraine, Battle of Vélez-Málaga;
- Charlotte of Lorraine, Mlle. d'Armagnac (6 May 1678 – 21 January 1757) never married;
- Anne Marie of Lorraine (29 September 1680 – 19 December 1712) died in Monaco;
- Marguerite of Lorraine (20 July 1681) died in infancy;
- Adrien Maurice de Noailles, Duc de Noailles, no issue.
Amongst his many mistresses was Julie d'Aubigny (1673 - 1707), who later known as Mademoiselle Maupin or La Maupin.
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References
- ISBN 9780870993855. Retrieved 9 February 2024.