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Géraud Michel de Pierredon (22 April 1916, Magné - 17 November 2006,

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) served as

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of the

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from 1982.

Life

The son of Count Thierry Michel de Pierredon and Princess Mabel Constance de Polignac, his family were created

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in 1882. The family own Château de la Roche, near Magné in France, where the ''Museum of the Knights of Malta'' is located. The

wrote several books on the

and was a Bailiff Grand Cross of the

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, and a Grand Cross of the Order pro Merito Melitensi. His elder daughter, Countess Marie-Ange Michel de Pierredon (born 1953), who married firstly in 1995 (divorced) the 5th Earl of Liverpool, is a Dame of Honour and Devotion of the Order of Malta. Countess Liliane Fawcett (born 1956), his younger daughter, has two daughters by her

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husband, Christopher Fawcett.www.coram.org.uk
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