Charles Louis d'Albert de Luynes

The Duke of Chevreuse (aged five), Hyacinthe Rigaud , Dampierre Castle

Marie Charles Louis d'Albert de Luynes ( April 24, 1717 - October 8, 1771 ) was a French nobleman and military man. He was the 5th Duke of Luynes , Pair de France and Governor of Paris .

biography

Charles Louis d'Albert was the son of Charles Philippe d'Albert (1695-1758), 4th Duke of Luynes, and Louise Léontine de Bourbon-Soissons-Neuchâtel (1696-1721), daughter of Louis-Henri de Bourbon-Soissons ; he was titular Duke of Montfort, then Duke of Chevreuse , Count of Montfort-l'Amaury , then Duke of Luynes and Pair de France, Prince of Neuchâtel (title claimed but not recognized by the King), Marquis de Saissac et de Dangeau , Comte de Tours , de Noyers and Dunois .

During his military career he was brigadier of the Dragoons (1736), Maréchal de camp (1743), Lieutenant-général des Armée du Roi (1748), Colonel General of the Dragoons (1754), Governor of Paris (1757) and Chevalier de l ' Ordre du Saint-Esprit (1759).

He took part in the military conflicts of 1733 and 1735 ( War of the Polish Succession ), and from 1741 in the War of Austrian Succession . In 1741 he was in the capture of Prague , in the same year he was four times wounded in the battle near Sahay (Zahájí) at the head of the Dragoons. In 1742 he took part in the defense of Prague, then in all the sieges and battles of this war.

Marriage and offspring

Charles Louis d'Albert in 1770 in the uniform of a Colonel General of the Dragoons

He married on January 25, 1735 in Saint-Sulpine in Paris Thérèse Pélagie d'Albert de Grimberghen, daughter of Ludwig Joseph d'Albert de Luynes von Grimbergen , imperial ambassador to France, and Madeleine Marie Honorine Charlotte, princesse de Berghes. She died in Paris in 1736.

His second marriage was on June 10, 1738 in Saint-Roch in Paris, Henriette Nicole Pignatelli d'Egmont (* 1719, † September 1, 1782 in Paris), sister of Casimir Pignatelli d'Egmont , daughter of Procopio Carlo Pignatelli d'Egmont , Duke of Bisaccia, and Henriette Julie de Durfort de Duras de Braine; their children are:

• Charles-Marie, born May 23, 1740, † April 12, 1758, Comte de Dunois
• Marie-Pauline, born September 7, 1744, † October 17, 1781; ∞ May 23, 1758 Joseph Duc de Chaulnes, † 1793
• Louis-Joseph , born November 4, 1748, † May 20, 1807, Duc de Luynes, Duc de Chevreuse, Duc de Montfort-l'Amaury, Marquis de Dangeau, Comte de Dunois, Comte de Noyers, Pair de France, 5. December 1781 Field Marshal, 1789 Deputy for the Touraine nobility in the Estates General , September 5, 1803 - May 20, 1807 Senator, May 23, 1807 buried in the Panthéon , the body was exhumed on August 28, 1862 and returned to the family; ∞ April 19, 1768 Guyonne, daughter of Gui Duc de Laval ( Montmorency house )

literature

• Mercure de France , October 1771, p. 211
• Chistophe Levantal, Ducs et pairs et duchés-pairies laïques à l'époque moderne (1519-1790) , pp. 522–523, Maisonneuve & Larose, 1996, ISBN 2-7068-1219-2
• Frank Baron Freytag von Loringhoven: European family tables Volume 4 (1961), plates 142-143