La Trémoille

Family coat of arms

La Trémoille (also spelled La Trémouille ) is a French princely family who had their greatest power at the end of the Middle Ages and during the Renaissance . The name comes from a place in the Vienne department , which today is spelled La Trimouille .

history

The family first appears in the 11th century; it belonged temporarily to the county of Joigny (1st half of the 15th century), the margraviate of Royan , the county of Olonne and the margraviate, later the duchy of Noirmoutier .

14th to 15th century

Jean de La Trémoille

1. Guy V. de La Trémoille (* around 1315, † August 18, 1350 in Loudun ); ⚭ Radegonde de Guénard
   1. Guy VI. Le Vaillant (* 1346; † 1397 in Rhodes ), Lord of Jonvelle ; ⚭ Marie de Sully, princesse de Boisbelle, daughter of Louis de Sully and Isabelle de Craon, at Sully Castle
      1. Jean de La Trémoille (* 1377; † 1449), lord of Jonvelle, Grand Maître and Grand Chambellan of the Burgundian dukes Johann Ohnefurcht and Philip the Good ; ⚭ July 17, 1424 Jacqueline d'Amboise, daughter of Ingelger II., ( House of Amboise ) and Jeanne de Craon
      2. Georges de La Trémoille (around 1382, † 1446), Grand Chamberlain of King Charles VII ; ⚭ I Johanna II. Countess of Auvergne and Boulogne , ( House of Auvergne ); ⚭ II July 2, 1426 Catherine de l'Île-Bouchard , daughter of Jean and Jeanne de Bueil, widow of Hugues de Chalon, Comte de Tonnerre (X 1426), ( Chalon house )
         1. (II) Georges de La Trémoille (* 1427; † 1481), Lord of Craon
         2. (II) Louis I. de La Trémoille (* 1431; † 1483); ⚭ August 22, 1446 Marguerite d'Amboise, daughter of Louis d'Amboise and Marie de Rieux
            1. Louis II. De La Trémoille (* 1460 in Thouars , † 1525 in the Battle of Pavia )
               1. Charles de La Trémoille († 1515), Prince de Talmont et de Mortagne ; ⚭ Louise de Coetivy († 1553), Comtesse de Taillebourg , Princesse de Mortagne, Baronne de Royan , ( House Coëtivy )
            2. Jean de La Trémoille († 1507), Archbishop of Auch , Bishop of Poitiers , Cardinal
            3. Georges de La Trémoille († 1519), lord of Jonvelle
            4. Anne; ⚭ I November 26, 1474 Louis d'Anjou, Bâtard de Maine, ( House of Valois-Anjou ); ⚭ II Guillaume de Rochefort , Seigneur de Pluvault († 1492), Chancellor of France ; ⚭ III January 16, 1494 Jacques de Rochechouart, Seigneur de Charroux, ( Rochechouart House )
      3. Marguerite († 1413); ⚭ Renaud VI. († 1427), Sire de Pons
   2. Guillaume († 1397); ⚭ 1374 Marie de Mello, daughter of Guy de Mello and Agnès de Cléry

16th to 20th century

(father and son, one after the other)

• Charles de La Trémoille († 1515), Prince de Talmont et de Mortagne
• François de La Trémoille (* 1505; † 1541); ⚭ Anne de Laval
• Louis III de La Trémoille (* 1521; † 1577), Prince of Talmont , Prince of Taranto , Count of Taillebourg and Benon , Lord of Gençay ; ⚭ Jeanne de Montmorency (Montmorency tribe list )
• 

  Thouars Castle
  Claude de La Trémoille (* 1566; † 1604), Duke of Thouars and La Trémoille, Prince of Talmont and Taranto, Count of Laval , Taillebourg and Benon; ⚭ Charlotte Brabantina of Orange-Nassau ; In 1602 he sold Sully Castle to Maximilien de Béthune , who in 1606 was made Duke of Sully .
• Henri III de La Trémoille (born December 22, 1598 in Thouars; † January 21, 1674 there), Duke of Thouars , Duke of La Trémoille, Prince of Talmont and Prince of Taranto , Count of Laval , Montfort , Taillebourg and Benon , Baron of Quintin
• Henri Charles de La Trémoille (* 1620; † 1672)
• Charles Belgique Hollande de La Trémoille (* 1655 in The Hague , † June 1, 1709 in Paris ), Duke of Thouars , Peer of France , Duke of La Trémoille, Prince of Taranto, Count of Laval, Montfort and Benon.
• Charles Louis Bretagne de La Trémoille , Duke of la Trémoille and Thouars, Peer of France
• Charles-Armand-René de La Trémoille (born January 14, 1708 - † May 23, 1741), Duke of la Trémoille and Thouars, Peer of France, Prince of Taranto, member of the Académie Française .
• Jean Bretagne Charles de La Trémoille (born February 5, 1737, † 1792 in Chambéry ), Duke of Thouars, Count of Laval and Beaufort.
• Charles Bretagne Marie Joseph († 1839), 7th Duke of La Trémoille, 8th Duke of Thouars,
• Louis Charles († 1911), 8th Duke of La Trémoille, 9th Duke of Thouars,
• Louis Charles Marie († 1921), 9th Duke of La Trémoille, 10th Duke of Thouars,
• Louis Jean Marie († 1933), 10th Duke of La Trémoille, 11th Duke of Thouars - ultimus familiae

(see also Prince étranger )

such as:

• Charlotte de La Trémoille (better known as Charlotte Stanley, Countess of Derby; 1599–1668)
• Marie Charlotte de La Trémoille (1630–1682), daughter of Henri de La Trémoille, duc de Thouars , 1662 ⚭ Duke Bernhard (Saxony-Jena) (1638–1678)
• Marie-Anne de La Trémoille , also known as Princesse des Ursins
• Joseph-Emmanuel de La Trémoille (7 July 1659 - 10 January 1720), Abbé de Lagny , brother Anne-Maries, cardinal on May 17, 1706, Bishop of Bayeux , Archbishop of Cambrai .
• Antoine-Philippe de La Trémoille (born September 27, 1765 in Paris, † January 27, 1794 in Laval ), royalist general in the Vendée uprising , second son of Jean Bretagne Charles

literature

• Kmec, Sonja: Across the Channel. Noblewomen in Seventeenth-Century France and England. A Study of the Lives of Marie de la Tour, Queen of the Huguenots, and Charlotte de la Tremoille, Countess of Derby, Trier 2010. ISBN 978-3-89890-138-3

Web link

• Genealogy of La Trémoille (PDF; 596 kB)