Duc de Beaumont is an extinct

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in the peerage of France which was created by

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in 1765 for

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officer Charles-François-Christian de Montmorency-Beaumont-Luxembourg.

History

The lordship of

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in the

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, was raised to County for Achille de Harlay, a prominent judge and Premier President of the Parliament of Paris. The title went extinct in 1717 with his great-grandson, another Achille de Harlay, but the lands themselves were inherited by the latter's daughter, wife of the Marhall of Montmorency (third son of the

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). The Beaumont title was resurrected as a Dukedom for their son Charles-François-Christian de Montmorency-Luxembourg, a general in the French Army. It was a "simple dukedom", meaning his holder was not a

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. It became extinct on the death of the grantee's grandson Anne-Édouard-Louis-Joseph de Montmorency-Beaumont-Luxembourg, in 1878.

Counts of Beaumont (1612)

* 1612-1616 : Achille de Harlay (1536-1616), Premier President of the

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, 1st count of Beaumont. * 1616-1671 : Achille de Harlay (1606-1671), Procurator General of the Paris Parliament, 2nd count of Beaumont. * 1671-1712 : Achille de Harlay (1639-1712), Premier President of the Paris Parliament, 3rd count of Beaumont. * 1712-1717 : Achille de Harlay (1668-1717), Advocate General of the Paris Parliament, 4th count of Beaumont. * ''1717-1749 : Louise-Madeleine de Harlay (1694-1749), heiress of Beaumont, wife of the Marshall of Montmorency.''

Ducs de Beaumont (1765)

* 1713-1787 : Charles-François-Christian de Montmorency-Beaumont-Luxembourg. (1713–1787). * 1787-1790 ; 1815-1821 : Anne Christian de Montmorency-Luxembourg (1767–1821). * 1821-1848 ; 1852-1878 : Anne Edouard Louis Joseph de Montmorency-Luxembourg, styled ''prince of Montmorency-Luxembourg'' (1802–1878).

Sources

*http://www.heraldica.org/topics/france/peerage2.htm *{{Better source, date=August 2012 Beaumont Beaumont