Godefroy Maurice de La Tour d'Auvergne

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Godefroy Maurice de La Tour d'Auvergne, portrait by Robert Nanteuil , 1657

Godefroy Maurice de La Tour d'Auvergne (born June 21, 1636 - July 26, 1721 ) was Duc de Bouillon , d' Albret et de Château-Thierry, Pair de France , Grand Chambellan de France , Prince de Sedan et de Raucourt , Comte d'Auvergne , d' Evreux et de Comte de Beaumont-le-Roger , Viscount de Turenne et de Lanquais , Vidame de Tulle , Baron de Limeuil et de Montgascon , Gouverneur de la Haute et Basse Auvergne.

The office of Grand Chambellan , one of the main Great Officers of the Crown of France , had he held from 1658 to 1715, so for 57 years, during which he only one King, Louis XIV. Was used; He took the oath of office for this in early April 1658. With him began a period of 137 years in which the office within the La Tour d'Auvergne family was passed on from father to son. From 1671 to 1700 his brother, the Cardinal de Bouillon , was also Grand Almosier of France .

biography

Godefroy-Maurice de La Tour d'Auvergne is the eldest son of Frédéric-Maurice de La Tour d'Auvergne , Duc de Bouillon, Prince de Sedan et de Raucourt, and Éléonore Catherine Fébronie de Wassenaer de Bergh ; he was a nephew of Marshal Turenne . In 1662 he became Duke of Albret and Château-Thierry, Count of Auvergne, Évreux, Beaumont-le-Roger, etc. in 1665, he became Pair de France. He received the duchy of Bouillon back in 1678, albeit under French sovereignty.

As a military man, he commanded the Turenne Regiment at the Siege of Dunkirk (1646) and the Battle of the Dunes (1658). He took part in the battle of Mogersdorf in Hungary (1664) and in the conquests of Tournai , Douai and Lille in 1667. In 1668 he accompanied the king in the conquest of Franche-Comté , from 1672 in the Dutch War with the sieges of Maastricht , Besançon , Dole , Limbourg , Valenciennes , Cambrai and Gent . He last took part in the siege of Namur during the Palatine War of Succession in 1692 .

In 1681 he acquired the Hôtel de la Baziniere on today's Quai Malaquais 17 ( 6th arrondissement ). The Hôtel particulier was renamed the Hôtel de Bouillon and served as the family residence. The salons that the Duchess held were frequented by others. a. Jean de La Fontaine , the Marquise de Sévigné , Madame de Lafayette , Pierre Corneille and Molière .

marriage and family

Godefroy Maurice de La Tour d'Auvergne married on April 20, 1662 Maria Anna Mancini (* 1649, † June 26, 1714), daughter of Michele Lorenzo Mancini and Geronima (Girolama) Mazzarini, thus a niece of Cardinal Jules Mazarin . Your children are:

  1. Louis, called le Prince de Turenne , * January 14, 1665, X August 4, 1692 after the battle of Steenkerke in Enghien ; ∞ February 26, 1691 Anne Geneviève de Lévis , * February 1673, † March 20, 1727, heiress of Louis Charles de Lévis, 5th Duc de Ventadour, pair de France, and Charlotte de La Mothe-Houdancourt ( House of Lévis ), she married in second marriage on February 19, 1694 Hercule Mériadec de Rohan, 1714 Duc de Rohan-Rohan, Pair de France, † January 26, 1749 ( House Rohan )
  2. Marie Elisabeth, called Mademoiselle de Bouillon , * July 8, 1666, † December 24, 1725
  3. Emmanuel Théodose , * 1668, † 16 (or 17) May 1730, 1696 8th Duke of Bouillon, 1721 3rd Duc d'Albret et de Château-Thierry, Comte d'Auvergne, d'Évreux et de Beaumont-le -Roger, Viscount de Turenne, Pair de France, Governor of Auvergne; ∞ (1) February 1, 1696 Marie Armande Victoire de La Trémoille, * 1677, † March 5, 1717, daughter of Charles Belgique Hollande de La Trémoille, 4th Duc de Thouars, Pair de France, 3rd Duc de La Trémoille ( House La Trémoille ); ∞ (2) January 4, 1718 Louise Françoise Angélique Le Tellier, * 1698, † June 8, 1719, daughter of Louis François Le Tellier, marquis de Barbezieux , and Marie Thérèse Delphine d'Alègre ( Le Tellier de Louvois ); ∞ (3) May 26, 1720 Anne Marie Christine de Simiane, * 1683, † August 8, 1722, daughter of François Louis Claude Edmé de Simiane, Comte de Moncha, and Anne Thérèse de Simiane de Gordes; ∞ (4) March 21, 1725 Louise Henriette Françoise Princess of Lothringen-Harcourt, * 1707, † March 31, 1737, daughter of Anne-Marie-Joseph de Lorraine Prince d'Harcourt ( House of Guise )
  4. Eugène Maurice, born March 29, 1669, † November 22, 1772
  5. Daughter , born February 11, 1670
  6. Daughter , born January 6, 1671
  7. Frédéric Jules, called le Prince d'Auvergne , * May 2, 1672, † June 28, 1733, Seigneur de Lanquais et de Limeuil; ∞ January 17, 1720 Olive Catherine de Trantes, * 1688, † December 27, 1738, daughter of Patrick de Trantes and Éléonore de Nagle-Monnanemie
  8. Louis Henri , known as le Comte d'Évreux , * August 2, 1674, † January 20, 1753, Lieutenant General and Governor of Île-de-France, built the Hôtel d'Évreux , today's Élysée Palace ; ∞ August 3, 1707 Marie Anne Crozat, * 1696, † August 11, 1729, daughter of Antoine Crozat , Marquis de Chastel, and Marguerite Le Gendre
  9. Louise Julie, called la Mademoiselle de Château-Thierry , * November 26, 1679, † November 21, 1750; ∞ June 28, 1698 François Armand de Rohan, called le Prince de Montbazon , † June 26, 1717 ( Rohan House )

After the loss of the sovereign principality of Sedan and still in the status of Prince étranger , Godefroy Maurice de La Tour d'Auvergne arranged marriages for two of his children with the other two families of the same status from the House of Rohan and the House of La Trémoille .

literature

Remarks

  1. ↑ Schwennicke; PéreAnselme: Geoffroy-Maurice
  2. ↑ On the Prize de la ville et du château de Namur by François de La Pointe from L'Almanach pour l'année 1693 , he is shown as 3rd from the left ( online , accessed May 2, 2020)
  3. ↑ Today it is part of the École nationale supérieure des beaux-arts de Paris under the name of Hôtel de Chimay .
  4. ↑ Schwennicke; Katherine Olivia Trant, * December 1682 Bloomsbury , Middlesex, England, daughter of Patrick Trant and Helen Nagle (London, England, Church of England Baptisms, Marriages and Burials, 1538–1812, St. Giles in the Fields, Holborn)
  5. ↑ “Sir Patrick Trant, son of a London merchant who made a considerable fortune, was one of the largest landowners in Ireland at the time of the Revolution . In 1686 he received a baronet patent and was very popular with Jacob II. The patent letter to appoint Sir Patrick Lord Maryborough was in the works when Jacob fled Dublin [1690]. For his loyalty to this unfortunate prince Sir was prosecuted Patrick, and his forfeited large estates were in 1703 [then the seat of the Irish Parliament in Dublin] in Chichester House at The Yellow bladebone Company for the inappropriate sum of 30,000 pounds sterling sold. "John Burke , Bernard Burke, A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Extinct and Dormant Baronetcies of England, Ireland, and Scotland , Smith, 1844, p. 615; Sir Patrick Trant died in 1704
  6. ↑ Olive Trant was sent to Paris in 1687 to be educated by the Blue Nuns (Joseph Gillow, Richards Trappes-Lomax (ed.), The Diary of the 'Blue Nuns' or Order of the Immaculate Conception of our Lady at Paris , 1658-1810 , Catholic Record Society, 1910, p. 34)
  7. ↑ As an adult, Olive Trant was a major Jacobite political activist , mistress of the Duke of Orléans before her marriage, and got rich through speculation with John Law's Mississippi Company (see also Mississippi Bubble ).
personal data
SURNAME La Tour d'Auvergne, Godefroy Maurice de
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Duke of Bouillon, Albret and Château-Thierry
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French nobleman, Grand Chamberlain of France
DATE OF BIRTH June 21, 1636
DATE OF DEATH July 26, 1721