Dreux-Brézé (noble family)
Dreux-Brézé is a family of the French nobility .
history
The Dreux family comes from Poitou and can be found there at the end of the 15th century. Thomas de Dreux (1644-1731) acquired the Seigneurie Brézé ( Maine-et-Loire ) in 1682 and was raised in 1685 to Marquis de Brézé. There was no connection with the noble Brézé family . Thomas II. De Dreux became Grand Master of Ceremonies of France.
Michel de Dreux-Brézé (1700–1754) was raised to lieutenant-général des armées du roi in 1744 , as was his son Joachim de Dreux-Brézé, 4th Marquis de Dreux-Brézé (1710–1781) in 1759. Grand Master of Ceremonies Henri-Edvard de Dreux-Brézé expanded the Renaissance part of the Brézé Castle. His son Pierre Simon (1811-1893) was Bishop of Moulins . Henri-Évrard de Dreux, Marquis de Dreux-Brézé (1766–1829) was Grand Master of Ceremonies of France until 1792 and again during the Restoration. Jean de Dreux-Brézé (* 1958) is the current head of the family.
Grand Master of Ceremonies of France from the Dreux-Brézé family
The office of Grand Master of Ceremonies of France went to the de Dreux family, Marquis de Brézé, at the beginning of the 18th century, who then held it with brief interruptions until its abolition in 1830:
- 1701–1749 Thomas II. De Dreux, Marquis de Brézé (1677–1749)
- 1749–1755 Michel de Dreux, Marquis de Brézé (1700–1754)
- 1755–1781 Joachim de Dreux, Marquis de Brézé (1710–1781)
- 1781–1792 Henri-Évrard de Dreux, Marquis de Dreux-Brézé (1766–1829)
- 1814–1829 Henri-Évrard de Dreux, Marquis de Dreux-Brézé (again)
- 1829–1830 Scipion de Dreux, Marquis de Dreux-Brézé (1793–1845)
literature
- Michel de Dreux-Brézé: Les Dreux-Brézé , 1994 (French)