Antoine de Gramont, 1st

Duke of Gramont The title of Duke of Gramont (''duc de Gramont'') is a French dukedom and former peerage. It was created in 1648 for French Marshal Antoine III de Gramont. History The family of Gramont was a Navarrese medieval noble house and owned the chateau o ...

(1572–1644). was a member of minor French nobility by birth. Created the 1st Duke of Gramont in

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by King

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he was automatically a Peer His granddaughter

Catherine Charlotte de Gramont Catherine Charlotte de Gramont (1639 – 4 June 1678) was the Princess of Monaco by marriage to Louis I of Monaco. She is known to have been a mistress of Louis XIV of France in 1666. Life Early life Catherine Charlotte de Gramont was the ...

married

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, making Antoine a direct ancestor of the present reigning

Albert II of Monaco Albert II – Website of the Palace of Monaco (Albert Alexandre Louis Pierre Grimaldi; born 14 March 1958) is Prince of Monaco, since 2005. Albert was born at the Prince's Palace of Monaco, and he is the second child and only son of Prince Rai ...

, ref= Though created the 1st Duke of Gramont, the creation of the title was not officially registered in Parliament before his death, so his son had to petition for the dukedom to be recognised. His mother had been

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of King Henri III of

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(the future

Henri IV of France Henry IV (french: Henri IV; 13 December 1553 – 14 May 1610), also known by the epithets Good King Henry or Henry the Great, was King of Navarre (as Henry III) from 1572 and King of France from 1589 to 1610. He was the first monarch ...

) between 1582 and 1591.

First marriage

He married Louise de Roquelaure, daughter of

Antoine de Roquelaure Antoine de Roquelaure (''Antòni de Ròcalaura'' in Occitan), lord of Roquelaure, Gaudoux, Sainte-Christie, Mirepoix, Montbert, Baron of Lavardens and Biran (1544 – Lectoure, 1625) was an important sixteenth-century French statesman and cl ...

Children

Antoine III de Gramont Antoine III Agénor de Gramont, Duke of Gramont, ''comte de Guiche,'' ''comte de Gramont,'' ''comte de Louvigny,'' ''Souverain de Bidache'' (1604, Chateau d'Hagetmau – 12 July 1678, Bayonne) was a French military commander and diplomat. He ...

(1604, – 12 July 1678) married Françoise Marguerite du Plessis.

Second marriage

In 1618, he married Claude de Montmorency of the

House of Montmorency The House of Montmorency, pronounced , was one of the oldest and most distinguished noble families in France. Origins The family name Montmorency derived from their castle in the ''pays de France'', recorded in Latin as ''Mons Maurentiacus'', i ...

Children

#Henri de Gramont (died 1679) who was Count of Toulongeon. # Philibert de Gramont, Count of Gramont (1621-1707) #Susanne Charlotte de Gramont (1627–1688) married Henri Mitte, Marquis of Saint-Chamond. #Anne Louise de Gramont (died 1666) married Isaac de Pas, Marquis of Feuquière. #Françoise Marguerite de Gramont married Philippe, Marquis of Lons #Charlotte Catherine de Gramont (died 1714), who became abbess of Notre-Dame-du-Ronceray at Angers. #Charlotte Catherine de Gramont (died 1714) never married but created Abbess of Notre-Dame-du-Ronceray at Angers.

Arms

*''Écartelé, au I et IV, de gueules à trois fasce ondées d'or ; aux Iet III, cousu de gueules à trois jumelles d'argent ; sur-le-tout, contre-écartelé : au 1, d'or, au lion d'azur, armé et lampassé de gueules (Gramont) ; au 2, de gueules, à trois flèches d'or, armées et empennées d'argent, 2 et 1, les pointes en bas (Asté); au 3, d'or, à un lévrier de gueules, colleté d'azur, à l'orle de sable, semée de besants d'or (Aure) ; au 4, d'argent à un chef endenté d'azur.''''Armorial du duc de Gramont''
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References

Works cited

* {{Cite book , last=La Chesnaye des Bois , first=François Alexandre Aubert de , author-link=François-Alexandre Aubert de La Chesnaye Des Bois , date=1866 , title=Dictionnaire de la noblesse , edition=3rd , volume=Tome neuvième , publisher=Schlesinger Frères , location=Paris , language=fr , oclc=797014713 , url=https://archive.org/details/dictionnairedela09aube/ Dukes of Gramont Peers of France Dukes of France French nobility 1572 births 1644 deaths