The House of Gramont is the name of an old French noble family, whose name is connected to the castle of Gramont (''Agramont'' in

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.Precisely on the territory of what is now the French commune of

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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 ...

(1604–1678), Military officer and diplomat, with the title

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(1641). *

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

(1639–1678), princesse de Monaco and mistress of

Louis XIV , house = Bourbon , father = Louis XIII , mother = Anne of Austria , birth_date = , birth_place = Château de Saint-Germain-en-Laye, Saint-Germain-en-Laye, France , death_date = , death_place = Palace of Vers ...

, daughter of the previous. *

Antoine V de Gramont Antoine V de Gramont (January 1672 – September 16, 1725), Duke of Guiche, was a Marshal of France. Early life French military figure and member of the House of Gramont, he was the oldest child of Antoine Charles IV de Gramont and Marie Charlott ...

(1671–1725), duc de Gramont (also named ''duc de Guiche''),

(1724), grandson of the first. * Louis of Gramont (1689–1745), defeated in the

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and killed in the

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, son of Antoine V. *

Eugénie de Gramont Eugénie de Gramont (17 September 1788, Versailles – 19 November 1846, Paris) was a French nun of the Society of the Sacred Heart. Life She became a member of the Society of the Sacred Heart in 1806, encountering it at Amiens. Her aristocrat ...

(1788–1846), religious figure, granddaughter of Antoine Adrien, comte de Gramont (1726–1762). *

Antoine-Geneviève-Héraclius-Agénor de Gramont Antoine IX Geneviève Héraclius Agénor de Gramont (17 July 1789 – 3 March 1855), 9th Duke of Gramont, Duke of Guiche, Prince of Bidache, ''etc.'' was a 19th-century French aristocratic Army general and courtier. Life De Gramont was born at ...

(1789–1854), duc de Gramont, court figure with close relations to the

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, great-great-grandson of Antoine V. * Agenor, duc de Gramont(1819–1880), duke of Gramont and prince of Bidache, French diplomat and statesman, son of the previous. *

Louis de Gramont Louis Ferdinand de Gramont (1854 – 9 December 1912) was a French journalist, dramatist, and librettist. He was a son of Ferdinand de Gramont. Gramont was born in Sèvres and finished his studies at the college there, then entered the School of L ...

(1854–1912), son of Ferdinand, French dramatist and librettist. * Louis-René Alexandre de Gramont (1883–1963), comte de Gramont, son of Agénor de Gramont (1851–1925), Commandeur de la Légion d'honneur and Croix de guerre 1914–1918. * Philipppe Agénor Marie Antoine de Gramont (1917–1940) son of Louis-René de Gramont, comte de Gramont, Chevalier de la Légion d'honneur. * Marguerite Corisande Alexandrine Marie de Gramont (1920–1998) baronne Philippe de Gunzbourg, daughter of comte de Gramont, Officier of Légion d'honneur and Croix de guerre. * René Armand Antoine de Gramont (1927–2004) son of Louis-René de Gramont, comte de Gramont. * François Marie Louis Antoine de Gramont (1931–1955) son of Louis-René de Gramont, comte de Gramont. * Gabriel Antoine Armand, Comte de Gramont (1908–1943), a hero of the French Resistance, grandson of Agénor de Gramont (1819–1880) duc de Gramont and prince de Bidache. * Sanche de Gramont (1932- ), son of the previous, gave up his titles and became a naturalized citizen of the

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under the name Ted Morgan. * Arnaud François Louis Victurnien de Gramont (1960 - ) son of comte René de Gramont (1927–2004),

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. *

Antoine Alfred Arnaud Xavier Louis de Gramont Count Antoine Alfred Arnaud Xavier Louis de Gramont (21 April 1861 – 31 October 1923) was a French aristocrat with an interest in minerals, geology, and was a pioneer of spectroscopy. He conducted studies on pyroelectricity and dissociation spec ...

(1861–1923), French spectroscopist

Bibliography

* Jean de Jaurgain and Raymond Ritter, ''La maison de Gramont 1040-1967'', Les amis du musée pyrénéen, Tarbes (two volumes) (in French) * {{citation, last=Lewis , first=Warren Hamilton , author-link=Warren Lewis , date=1958 , title=Assault on Olympus - The rise of the House of Gramont between 1604 and 1678 , publisher=Harcourt, Brace & Co , publication-place=New York , url=https://archive.org/details/assaultonolympus0000lewi

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The Gramont in the History of Navarre
Surnames de:Herzöge von Gramont eu:Agramondar leinua

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