Antoine de la Rochefoucauld, the second of this name, Seigneur de

Chaumont-sur-Loire Chaumont-sur-Loire (, ), commonly known as Chaumont, is a commune and town in the Loir-et-Cher department and the administrative region of Centre-Val de Loire, France, known for its historical defensive walls and its castle. Château de Chaum ...

, served

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as a knight (''chevalier de l'ordre du Roi'') and his chamberlain. On 7 October 1552, he married

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, daughter of

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, seigneur de

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maître des requêtes A Master of Requests () is a counsel of the French ''Conseil d'État'' (Council of State), a high-level judicial officer of administrative law in France. The office has existed in one form or another since the Middle Ages. The occupational title ...

and

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. He fought at the

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on 13 March 1569, where the Prince de Condé was killed, and succeeded to withdraw his troops to

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. Charged by Gaspard de Coligny, he then took

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, 8 June.

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