Gramont (noble family)

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Château de Bidache , owned by the family from around 1190 until today, burnt down in 1796
Château de Guiche , still owned by the family today

Gramont is the name of a noble family from the old French aristocracy , which is a branch of the house of the Viscounts de Dax , and takes its name from the castle Gramont (Spanish Agramunt) in the southern French countryside of Labourd ( Lower Pyrenees ). The neighboring castles of Bidache and Guiche are still in family ownership (as ruins). In 1563 the lords of Gramont were made Counts of Guiche, in 1643 the head of the family was made Duke of Gramont, in 1739 Duke of Lesparre and in 1780 Duke of Guiche. From 1801 the lines of the Dukes of Gramont / Guiche and the Dukes of Lesparre divided.

Dukes of Gramont

  • Antoine III. de Gramont (1604–1678), military and diplomat, Marshal of France , was made duke and peer by Louis XIV .
  • Antoine IV. Charles de Gramont (1641–1720), his son, 2nd Duke of Gramont
  • Antoine V. de Gramont (1671–1725), his son, 3rd Duke of Gramont (called von Guiche), 1724 Marshal of France, grandson of the previous one
  • Antoine VI. de Gramont (1688–1741), his son
    • Louis de Gramont (1689–1745), his brother
    • Antoine VII. De Gramont (1726–1801), his son
  • Antoine VIII. Louis Marie de Gramont (1755–1836), his nephew, Duke of Guiche (since April 16, 1780), Duke of Gramont (since 1801). Since then, the title Duc de Guiche has been held by the eldest son of the Duke of Gramont.
  • Antoine IX. Geneviève Héraclius Agénor de Gramont , whose son, duc de Gramont , b. June 7th, 1789 at the Palace of Versailles, had close ties to the Bourbons from early youth , especially the Duke of Angoulême , was one of the most brilliant figures in aristocratic France and was considered a model of elegance and taste at the court of the Bourbons. He died on March 3, 1854.
  • Antoine X. Alfred Agénor de Gramont , his son, Duke of Gramont and Prince of Bidache , (1819–1880), French diplomat and statesman
  • Antoine XI. de Gramont (1851–1925), his son, Duke of Gramont
  • Armand Antoine XII. de Gramont (1879–1962), his son, Duke of Gramont
  • Antoine XIII. de Gramont (1907–1995), his son, Duke of Gramont
  • Antoine XIV. De Gramont (1951–2014), his son, Duke of Gramont
  • Antoine XV. de Gramont (* 2008), his son, Duke of Gramont
  • coat of arms

  • Ancestral coat of arms of the Gramont

  • by Antoine II

  • by Antoine III

  • by Antoine VIII

  • by Philibert

Dukes of Lesparre

  1. Antoine de Gramont (1722–1801), Comte de Lescun et de Lesparre, then 1st Duke de Lesparre (1739), 7th Duke de Gramont
  2. Louis-Antoine de Gramont (1746–1790), his son, Comte de Guiche, 2nd Duc de Lesparre
  3. Auguste de Gramont (1820–1877), 3rd Duc de Lesparre, younger son of Héraclius de Gramont, 9th Duc de Gramont
  4. Armand de Gramont (1854–1931), 4th Duc de Lesparre, younger son of Agénor de Gramont (1819–1880), 10th Duc de Gramont
  5. Antoine de Gramont-Lesparre (1889–1971), his son, 5th Duc de Lesparre
  6. Arnaud de Gramont (1928–1982), his son, 6th Duc de Lesparre
  7. Aimery de Gramont (1953–), his son, 7th Duc de Lesparre
  8. Armand de Gramont (1977–), his son.

literature

  • WH Lewis: Assault on Olympus. The rise of the House of Gramont between 1604 and 1678. Harcourt et al., New York NY 1958.

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