Louis I. de Brancas

Louis I. de Brancas (born February 14, 1663 , † January 24, 1739 in Paris ) was Duc de Villars and Pair de France .

Life

Louis I. de Brancas was the eldest son of Louis François de Brancas, Duc de Villars , and Marie-Madeleine Girard. He was baptized on March 1, 1663, his godparents were King Louis XIV and Anne-Marie-Louise d'Orléans

With the death of his father in 1679 he became the 3rd Duc de Villars and Pair de France. With a marriage contract dated July 25, 1680 (and dispensation because of the close relatives) he married his cousin Marie de Brancas (* around 1661; † August 27, 1731 in the Palais Royal , around 70 years old), daughter of his uncle Charles de Brancas and Susanne Garnier. Your children were:

Louis-Antoine de Brancas, born August 2, 1682; † February 19, 1760, Duc de Villars and Pair de France, Comte de Lauraguais; ⚭ December 14, 1709 Sceaux Marie-Angélique Fremyn de Moras, daughter of Guillaume, Comte de Moras, Président à Mortier au Parlement de Metz, and Marie-Angélique Cadeau
Marie-Joseph de Brancas, * October 18, 1687, Marquis d'Oyse, July 1715 Capitaine-Lieutenant des Gendarmes d'Orléans, February 1, 1719 Brigadier de Cavalerie, Chevalier de Saint-Louis, February 1725 Inspecteur-général de Cavalerie, August 1, 1734 Maréchal-des-Camps et Armées du Roi

On December 14, 1709, he resigned as duke and peer in favor of his older son. On September 9, 1721, he retired to Le Bec Abbey in Normandy.

Shortly after the death of his wife, in October 1731, he left the abbey again. He settled in the Institut des Oratoire de France in Paris. On February 24, 1738 he married Louise-Diane-Françoise de Clermont-Gallerande, daughter of Pierre-Gaspard de Clermont-Gallerande, Chevalier des Ordres du Roi, Lieutenant-général de des Armées du Roi, and Gabrielle-Françoise d 'O, widow of Georges-Jacques de Beauvilliers, Marquis de Saint-Aignan († June 9, 1734). He died less than a year later with the Oratorians.

literature

François-Alexandre Aubert de La Chenaye-Desbois , Jacques Badier, Dictionnaire de la Noblesse , Paris, Schlesinger, 1853, 3rd edition, volume 3, columns 976ff
Christine Pevitt Algrant, The Man Who Would Be King; The Life of Philippe d'Orléans, Regent of France , Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1997, pp. 175f, 262f
Jean Gallian, Généalogie de la famille Brancas , 2016

Web link

Libro d'Oro della Nobilità Mediterranea - de Brancas - Duchi di Villars e Pari di Francia ( online , without references, accessed on January 10, 2020)

Remarks

↑ The cousin of the king, called La Grande Mademoiselle , who shortly thereafter for another five years in exile to Saint-Fargeau was sent
↑ According to Gallian, he became Commander de l ' Ordre royal et militaire de Saint-Louis in 1709 , Knight in the Order of the Golden Fleece in 1713 and Chevalier de l' Ordre du Saint-Esprit in 1724 . For Louis de Brancas de Forcalquier the information is correct, for the Duc de Villars they are incorrect.
↑ According to Pevitt, Louis de Brancas belonged to the circle of Philippe II. De Bourbon, duc d'Orléans , who was ruler of France from 1715 to 1723. He is described as amusing, good-natured, with a preference for young men (p. 175f). Although he was not rich, he did not take advantage of his relationship with Philippe financially, which left his family in a tense situation. On the other hand, he had tried to conclude a marriage contract with a three-year-old rich girl for his 33-year-old younger son, the Marquis d'Oyse, in order to reorganize the family (p. 262f). The reason given for his withdrawal into the monastery is given that at the age of 44 he was expected to pay for his homosexual relationships. On the other hand: Liselotte von der Pfalz , the wife of Philippe I de Bourbon, duc d'Orléans , both parents of Philippe II, wrote in a letter: “The vice of loving handsome boys is the Duke's greatest passion von Villars ... "(Princesse Palatine, Correspondance , Librairire académique Perrin, back translation from" le vice d'aimer les jolis garçons est la plus grande passion du duc de Villars ... ") - what is meant here, however, is Claude-Louis-Hector de Villars ( 1653–1734), who from 1705 also had the title of Duke of Villars (the title was awarded twice from 1705 to 1770); Louis de Rouvroy, duc de Saint-Simon expresses himself similarly in his memoirs.

personal data
SURNAME	Brancas, Louis I. de
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Duc de Villars
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	French nobleman
DATE OF BIRTH	February 14, 1663
DATE OF DEATH	January 24, 1739
Place of death	Paris

[1] The cousin of the king, called La Grande Mademoiselle , who shortly thereafter for another five years in exile to Saint-Fargeau was sent

[2] According to Gallian, he became Commander de l ' Ordre royal et militaire de Saint-Louis in 1709 , Knight in the Order of the Golden Fleece in 1713 and Chevalier de l' Ordre du Saint-Esprit in 1724 . For Louis de Brancas de Forcalquier the information is correct, for the Duc de Villars they are incorrect.

[3] According to Pevitt, Louis de Brancas belonged to the circle of Philippe II. De Bourbon, duc d'Orléans , who was ruler of France from 1715 to 1723. He is described as amusing, good-natured, with a preference for young men (p. 175f). Although he was not rich, he did not take advantage of his relationship with Philippe financially, which left his family in a tense situation. On the other hand, he had tried to conclude a marriage contract with a three-year-old rich girl for his 33-year-old younger son, the Marquis d'Oyse, in order to reorganize the family (p. 262f). The reason given for his withdrawal into the monastery is given that at the age of 44 he was expected to pay for his homosexual relationships. On the other hand: Liselotte von der Pfalz , the wife of Philippe I de Bourbon, duc d'Orléans , both parents of Philippe II, wrote in a letter: “The vice of loving handsome boys is the Duke's greatest passion von Villars ... "(Princesse Palatine, Correspondance , Librairire académique Perrin, back translation from" le vice d'aimer les jolis garçons est la plus grande passion du duc de Villars ... ") - what is meant here, however, is Claude-Louis-Hector de Villars ( 1653–1734), who from 1705 also had the title of Duke of Villars (the title was awarded twice from 1705 to 1770); Louis de Rouvroy, duc de Saint-Simon expresses himself similarly in his memoirs.