Michel du Motier, Marquis de La Fayette
Michel du Motier | |
|---|---|
| Marquis de La Fayette | |
| Born | Michel Louis Christophe Roch Gilbert Motier 13 August 1731 Kingdom of France |
| Died | 9 July 1759 (aged 27) Minden, Minden-Ravensberg, Prussia |
| Spouse(s) |
Marie Louise Jolie de la Rivière
(m. 1754) |
| Issue | Gilbert du Motier |
| Father | Edouard du Motier, marquis de Vissac |
| Mother | Marie Catherine de Suat, dame de Chavaniac |
Michel Louis Christophe Roch Gilbert Motier, Marquis de La Fayette
Early life
Michel Louis Christophe Roch Gilbert was the son of Edouard Motier de La Fayette, the Lord of Champetières and Marquis de Vissac (1669-1740), and Marie Catherine de Suat, dame de Chavaniac (1690–1772).[2]
The
Career
The Marquis de La Fayette was a
Personal life
- Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette (1757–1834), who played a significant role in the American and French Revolutions.[1]
He fought during the Seven Years' War against the British and was killed in battle by British cannon fire.[9] The death of his father kindled son Gilbert du Motier's desire to revenge his father in the fight against the British in the American Revolutionary War. Only two years old when his father died,[10] Gilbert du Motier became marquis and Lord of Chavaniac, but the estate went to his mother.[5] Perhaps devastated by the loss of her husband, she went to live in Paris with her father and grandfather,[7] leaving their son to be raised in Chavaniac-Lafayette by his paternal grandmother, Mme de Chavaniac, who had brought the château into the family with her dowry.[11] His widow and her father died in 1770, leaving Michel's 12-year-old son orphaned.[4]
Notes
- ^ His full name is rarely used; instead he is often referred to as the marquis de La Fayette or Lafayette (in the United States, not in France where a two words spelling is official). Biographer Louis R. Gottschalk says that Lafayette spelled his name both Lafayette and La Fayette. Other historians differ on the spelling of Lafayette's name: Lafayette, La Fayette, and LaFayette. Contemporaries often used "La Fayette", similar to his ancestor, the novelist Madame de La Fayette; however, his immediate family wrote Lafayette. See Gottschalk, pp. 153–54.
References
- ^ The Library of Congress. Retrieved 14 August 2018.
- ^ "La Fayette généalogie". parbelle.free.fr. Retrieved 14 August 2018.
- ISBN 9781596051867. Retrieved 14 August 2018.
- ^ a b "Biography of the Marquis de Lafayette". www.ushistory.org. Retrieved 14 August 2018.
- ^ a b Gottschlk, pp. 3–5
- ^ Unger, Harlow (2002). Lafayette. John Wiley & Sons. p. 5.
- ^ a b Unger, Library of Congress. 383
- ^ Clary, pp. 7, 8
- ^ Unger, Harlow (2002). Lafayette. John Wiley & Sons. p. 5.
- ISBN 978-1-4067-2793-7.
- ^ Clary, pp. 11–13