Louis de Brancas de Forcalquier

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Portrait of Louis de Brancas, Anonymous, in the Musée Calvet (Avignon) since 1837

Louis-Henri de Brancas de Forcalquier , called Le Marquis de Brancas (born January 19, 1672 in Pernes-les-Fontaines , † August 9, 1750 ), 2nd Marquis de Céreste and sovereign (titular) prince of the island of Nisyros was a French Military and diplomat of the first half of the 18th century. He was appointed Marshal of France in 1740 .

Life

Louis de Brancas was the eldest son of Henri de Brancas de Forcalquier, Marquis de Céreste, and Dorothée de Cheilus. He was Marquis de Céreste, Comte de Roubion , Baron de Castellet, Seigneur de Saint-Dizier, Venasque , Vitrolles , Montjustin and Juvisy, and sovereign (titular) prince of the island of Nisyros.

He entered the military and on June 15, 1699 became a colonel in the Régiment d'Orléans. On June 4, 1702 he was promoted to brigadier , on October 26, 1704 to maréchal de camp . As a diplomat he was appointed envoy of France to Madrid in 1707. On May 8, 1709 he was one of 28 commanders in the Ordre royal et militaire de Saint-Louis , on March 29, 1710 Lieutenant-général des Armées du Roi et au Gouvernement de Provence.

On February 12, 1711 he was appointed governor of Girona as part of the War of the Spanish Succession . In February 1713 he was appointed Knight of the Order of the Golden Fleece (Spanish Branch, No. 660), and was accepted on November 26, 1713 in Madrid. In 1714 he became the French envoy extraordinary to Spain for the second time.

On June 3, 1724 he became a knight in the Order of the Holy Spirit . On November 2, 1727, he was appointed to Spain for a third time, this time as Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary. On February 15, 1730, the Spanish king made him hereditary grandee of Spain 1st class.

On March 27, 1738 he became governor of Nantes and the Pays Nantois, as well as commander in chief of the army in Brittany. The high point of his career was his appointment as Marshal of France on February 11, 1741.

He was also Conseiller d'État ordinaire d'épée, although the dates are unclear.

family

On January 24, 1696 he married Elisabeth-Charlotte-Candide de Brancas, * December 1679, † August 26, 1741 Paris, daughter of Louis François de Brancas, Duc de Villars, and Louise Catherine Angélique de Fautereau de Mainières. They had eleven children, most of whom died at a young age:

  1. César-Antoine de Brancas, * October 24, 1697, † June 7, 1698
  2. Louis-Henri de Brancas, * September 12, 1698, † young
  1. Louis-Bufile de Brancas, dit le Comte de Forcalquier , born September 28, 1710, † February 3, 1753, 1750 Lieutenant-général au Gouvernement de Provence; ⚭ March 6, 1743 Marie-Françoise-Renée de Carbonnel de Canisy, * 1725, † after 1771, widow of Antoine-François de Pardaillan de Gondrin , Marquis d'Antin, daughter of René-Anne de Carbonnel, Comte de Canisy, and Thérèse Éléonore Guestre de Préval
  2. Charles-François de Brancas, dit le Marquis de Céreste , * February 24, 1715, † September 26, 1738 Toulon
  3. Louis-Paul de Brancas, * May 25, 1718, † 1802, Knight of the Order of Malta as a minor, November 1737 cavalry captain in the Régiment de Piémont, November 1739 Mestre de camp d'un Régiment de Cavalerie, June 6, 1745 Brigadier des Armées du Roi, December 1748 Maréchal de camp, grandee of Spain on the death of his brother; ⚭ March 9, 1747 Marie-Anne-Renée-Jacqueline Grandhomme de Giseux, heiress of René-Simon Grandhomme, Seigneur de Gizeux en Anjou, and Marie-Anne de la Motte
  4. Marguerite-Candide de Brancas, * September 20, 1699, † after 1715
  5. Susanne-Dorothée de Brancas, * September 6, 1700, † July 15, 1701
  6. Françoise-Gabrielle de Brancas, * probably 1704, † October 26, 1724 in childbed, at the age of 21; ⚭ May 30, 1723 François-Louis Le Tellier, Marquis de Louvois, dit le Marquis de Souvré ( Le Tellier de Louvois )
  7. Marie-Josèphe de Brancas, November 26th 1726 nun in the Monastère de la Visitation in Faubourg Saint-Germain
  8. Françoise-Gabrielle de Brancas, born September 7, 1703, 1732 abbess of Préaux
  9. Marie-Thérèse de Brancas, born April 2, 1716; ⚭ March 13, 1736 Jean-Anne-Vincent de Larlan de Kercadio, Comte de Rochefort

literature

Web link

  • Libro d'Oro della Nobilità Mediterranea - de Brancas - Duchi di Villars e Pari di Francia ( online , accessed January 10, 2020)

Remarks

  1. ↑ For her life see: Louis de Loménie , La Comtesse de Rochefort et ses amis: Études sur les mœurs en France au XVIIIe siècle , 1870, new edition: Collection XIX, 2016 ( wikisource )
personal data
SURNAME Brancas de Forcalquier, Louis de
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Brancas de Forcalquier, Louis-Henri de; Brancas, Le Marquis de
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French military and diplomat, Marshal of France
DATE OF BIRTH January 19, 1672
PLACE OF BIRTH Pernes-les-Fontaines
DATE OF DEATH August 9, 1750