Louis II. De Brancas
Louis II. De Brancas (born May 5, 1714 in Paris ; † December 1793 there ) was 5th Duc de Villars and Pair de France , 2nd Duc de Lauraguais , Lieutenant-général des Armées du Roi, Governor de Guise .
biography
Louis de Brancas was the eldest son of Louis-Antoine de Brancas, Duc de Villars, Pair de France, Comte de Lauraguais etc., and Marie Angélique Fremyn de Moras.
In 1730 the grande of Spain became 1st class. In 1731, in connection with his marriage, he received a royal license to use the titles Duc de Lauraguais and Pair de France while his father was still alive - after his resignation : in the same year he married Adélaide-Geneviève-Félicité the Elder 'O, who died in childbed in 1735 at the age of about 19, eleven days after the birth of her second child.
In 1742 he married the nearly 28-year-old Diane-Adélaïde de Mailly , the third of four Mailly sisters, the mistresses of King Louis XV. were or should be. In 1745 he became Maréchal de camp and Knight of the Order of the Golden Fleece (Spanish branch, no. 723). In 1748 he became Lieutenant-général des Armées du Roi.
In 1750, Léon de Madaillan de Lesparre, Marquis de Lassay and builder of the Hôtel de Lassay, died . Since she did not live in it herself, his widow gave this Hôtel particulier to the sons of her niece Adélaide-Geneviève-Félicité d'O from her marriage to Louis II. De Brancas. The city palace, now called Palais Brancas-Lauraguais , was used by the Duc de Lauraguais and his family until the Duke's sons sold it to Louis V Joseph de Bourbon, prince de Condé in 1768 . During this time the Palais was "one of the most highly regarded private buildings" in Paris.
In 1755 Louis II. De Brancas renounced the title of Duc de Lauraguais in favor of his eldest son. In 1758 he became governor of Guise . With the death of his father in 1760 he became Duke of Villars and (again) Pair de France.
Marriages
⚭ (1) August 27, 1731 Adélaide-Geneviève-Félicité d'O, * around 1716, † August 26, 1735 in Paris, approx. 19 years old, daughter of Simon-Gabriel d'O, Mestre de camp du Régiment d 'Infantry de Toulouse, Brigadier des Armées du Roi, and Anne-Louise de Madaillan de Lesparre;
⚭ (2) January 29, 1742 Diane-Adélaide de Mailly , * March 1714, † November 30, 1769, mistress of Louis XV. , Daughter of Louis de Mailly, Marquis de Nesle, and Armande Félice de La Porte Mazarin
⚭ (3) 1775 Catherine Frederica Wilhelmina von Neukirchen called Nijvenheim, sister of Albertine Elisabeth de Champcenetz
progeny
From his marriage to Adélaïde d'O:
- Louis-Léon-Félicité de Brancas (born July 3, 1733 in Paris, † October 8, 1824 ibid), dit le Comte de Lauraguais , 6th Duc de Villars, Pair de France, grandee of Spain 1st class, during his lifetime Father's already 3rd Duc de Lauraguais; ⚭ January 11, 1755 Élisabeth-Pauline de Gand de Mérode de Montmorency , * October 20, 1737, † guillotined February 16, 1794, daughter of Alexandre-Maximilien-Balthasar de Gand, Count of Middelburg, Maréchal de camp, and Françoise de La Rochefoucauld
- Bufile-Antoine-Léon de Brancas (born August 15, 1735 in Paris, † March 1821 ibid), dit le Comte de Brancas ; ⚭ (marriage contract February 13, 1766) Marie-Louise de Lowendal, born April 16, 1746 in Paris, † October 14, 1835 in Versailles, daughter of Ulrich von Löwendal (Woldemar, Comte de Lowendal), Marshal of France
From his marriage to Diane-Adélaïde de Mailly:
- Daughter , * November 1744, † January 3, 1749
From the marriage with Catherine von Neukirchen:
- Louis Albert de Brancas, 1830 Pair de France with the title Duc de Céreste , born October 8, 1775 in Paris, † September 28, 1851 in Château de Fourdrain near Laon, Chambellan Napoleon I , Maréchal de Camp Charles X , January 1830 Pair de France as Duc de Céreste ; ⚭ 1797 Henriette Pauline de Monestay de Chazeron, * 1776, † August 27, 1858 in Château de Fourdrain, daughter of François Amable de Monestay, Marquis de Chazeron, and Diane de Baschi de Saussan
literature
- François-Alexandre Aubert de La Chenaye-Desbois , Jacques Badier, Dictionnaire de la Noblesse , Paris, Schlesinger, 1853, 3rd edition, volume 3, columns 990ff
- Gustave Chaix d'Est-Ange, Dictionnaire des Familles françaises anciennes ou notables , Volume 6, Évreux, 1907, pp. 356ff
- 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
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Brancas, Louis II. De |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Comte de Lauraguais |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 5, 1714 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Paris |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 1793 |
| Place of death | Paris |