Roger du Plessis, duc de Liancourt

Roger du Plessis, duc de Liancourt (* 1598 - † August 1, 1674 ) was a high French nobleman from the house of Le Plessis-Liancourt .

Roger du Plessis was Duke of Liancourt , Duc de La Rocheguyon , Marquis de Guercheville , Comte de Beaumont-sur-Oise and Pair de France .

His father Charles du Plessis-Liancourt (died 1620) was the first equerry of Henry the III. and Governor of Metz , and his mother Antoinette de Pons , Marquise de Guercheville. The parents married in 1594.

He married on February 24, 1620 Jeanne de Schomburg (approx. 1600–1674, from the House of Schönburg ), daughter of Henri de Schomberg and sister of Marshal Charles de Schomberg . With her he had a son Henri-Roger (died 1646), Comte de la Rocheguyon and Marquis de Montfort, who was married to Anne, daughter of the Count of Lannoy. With his daughter Jeanne-Charlotte (Duchess of La Roche-Guyon and Marquise de Liancourt), born in 1645, the granddaughter of Roger du Plessis, the Liancourt family died out in the main line. She died on the same day as Roger du Plessis and was married to Duke Francois VII of the House of La Rochefoucauld , son of the second Duke and famous aphorist François de La Rochefoucauld , who in turn was the son of Roger du Plessis' sister Gabrielle du Plessis -Liancourt was. Du Plessis was therefore the uncle of the writer La Rochefoucauld. The Liancourt and La Roche-Guyon title passed to the La Rochefoucauld family.

In the campaign that led to the siege of Montpellier , he was Colonel of the Régiment de Picardie and distinguished himself on August 17, 1622 in the attack on Sommières .

With his wife, he built a city palace at the site of today's École des Beaux-Arts, in which he maintained a salon in which, among others, Jean de La Fontaine , Molière (reading of the Femmes Savantes), Pierre Corneille (reading of the Pulchérie), Madame de Lafayette and Jean Hérault de Gourville frequented.

Du Plessis was one of the Menins of Louis XIII. when this was a Dauphin , with Louis XIII. close friends and from 1620 to 1624 Premier Gentilhomme de la Chambre du Roi. In 1643 he became Duke of Rocheguyon (the last Duke, the title went to La Rouchefoucault after his death like that of the Liancourts).

During the Fronde he was close to Cardinal Retz . After the end of the Fronde he was out of favor with Louis XIV and lived in the splendid castle of Liancourt. His wife collected paintings there and was the patroness of artists. Both led a pious way of life and du Plessis was a supporter of Jansenism . Even after the official condemnation he offered refuge to Jansenists as heresy and pressures against the Port Royal monastery .

He was also associated with the founding of Montreal (as Ville-Marie) and his name appears on the Montreal obelisk commemorating the founding.

Web links

Deed of gift from Louis XIII. to Liancourt

Individual evidence

^ Family tree La Roche Guyon, Etienne Patou 2003, pdf . It is sometimes also given as 1609
↑ According to Tallement des Réaux, she is said to have rejected Henry IV's advances with the words: I am from too bad a house to be her wife, but from too good a house to be her mistress .

personal data
SURNAME	Plessis, Roger you, duc de Liancourt
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Liancourt, Roger du Plessis, duc de
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	French nobleman
DATE OF BIRTH	1598
DATE OF DEATH	August 1, 1674

[1] Family tree La Roche Guyon, Etienne Patou 2003, pdf . It is sometimes also given as 1609

[2] According to Tallement des Réaux, she is said to have rejected Henry IV's advances with the words: I am from too bad a house to be her wife, but from too good a house to be her mistress .