Charles Louis Bretagne de La Trémoille (15 March 1683 – 9 October 1719), 6th duke of Thouars, was the son of

Charles Belgique Hollande de La Trémoille Prince Charles Belgique Hollande de La Trémoïlle (May 1655 – 1 June 1709), 4th Duke of Thouars, was a French nobleman. Early life He was the second child and eldest son of Prince Henri Charles de La Trémoille (son and heir of Prince Hen ...

and Madeleine de

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, daughter and heiress of

Charles III de Créquy Charles III de Blanchefort-Créquy, sieur de Blanchefort, prince de Poix, duc de Créquy (24 March 1624 – 13 February 1687) was a French peer and soldier, who also served Louis XIV as diplomat and advisor. Life Charles III was the eldest of t ...

. He became duke of Thouars upon his father's death in 1709. He was also count of Laval and Montfort and inherited the ancient French claim to the Kingdom of Naples. The Neapolitan claim gave the family the

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of '' princes étrangers'' at the French

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. The Duke made a career in the military as well as at

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: he was brigadier of cavalry (January 1709), first gentleman of the King's chamber (June 1709), governor of Thouars (July 1709), and Maréchal de camp (February 1719). His sister Marie Armande Victoire de La Trémoille married Emmanuel Théodose de La Tour d'Auvergne. On 13 April 1706 he married Marie-Madeleine Motier de La Fayette (1691–1717), the daughter of Rene-Armand, marquis de La Fayette and Marie-Madeleine de Marillac, and granddaughter of the author Marie-Madeleine Pioche de la Vergne, comtesse de la Fayette. They had one child,

Charles Armand René de La Trémoille Charles Armand René de La Trémoille (14 January 1708, in Paris – 23 May 1741), 6th duc de Thouars, was the son of Charles Louis Bretagne de La Trémoille and his wife, Marie Madeleine Motier de la Fayette. La Trémoille was a French soldie ...

, born in 1708.

Ancestry

References

;Sources * Georges Paul, Dr Pierre Balme et Marie-Louise Le Verrier, ''Une grande famille d'Auvergne Les Motier de La Fayette'', imprimerie de Bussac, parution en 1951. * * Endnote: **For a detailed genealogy of the family and its alliances see

Louis Moréri Louis Moréri (25 March 1643 – 10 July 1680) was a French priest and encyclopedist. Life Moréri was born in 1643 in Bargemon, a village in the ancient province of Provence. His great-grandfather, Joseph Chatranet, a native of Dijon, had set ...

, ''Dictionnaire historique: Annuaire de la noblesse française'' (1856 and 1867). {{DEFAULTSORT:La Tremoille, Charles Louis Bretagne de 1683 births 1719 deaths Charles Louis Bretagne Dukes of La Trémoille Dukes of Thouars 17th-century French people 18th-century French people People of Byzantine descent 18th-century peers of France