John III, Count of Ligny (died 1 July 1576) was the eldest son of Count
Anthony II and his wife Margaret of Savoy. He succeeded his father as Count of
Brienne and
Ligny
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Previously its own municipality, a 1977 fusion of the Belgian municipalities made it an '' ancienne commune'' of So ...
in 1557.
He arrived in Edinburgh on 2 November 1566 as the ambassador of Savoy and was lodged in
Henry Kinloch's house in the Canongate near
Holyrood Palace
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. He visited
Craigmillar Castle to meet
Mary, Queen of Scots
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The only surviving legit ...
on 20 November, and went to
Stirling Castle
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on 12 December for the
baptism of Prince James, escorted by
George Seton, 7th Lord Seton. He gave the queen a necklace of pearl and rubies and earrings.
[Thomas Thomson, ''A Diurnal of Remarkable Occurrents in Scotland'' (Bannatyne Club, 1833), pp. 102-3.]
Marriage and family
John married Wilhelmina (d. 1592), the daughter of Duke
Robert IV of Bouillon. Together, they had the following children:
* Anthony
*
Charles II (1558-1608), his successor, elevated to ''Duke'' of Brienne in 1587
* Margaret (1562-1566)
*
François
François () is a French language, French masculine given name and surname, equivalent to the English name Francis (given name), Francis.
People with the given name
* François Amoudruz (1926–2020), French resistance fighter
* Voltaire, Fran ...
(1563-1613), succeeded Charles II as Count of Ligny. He married in 1576 Diane of Lorraine (1558-1597):
**Henry III (1582-1616),
Duke of Piney-Luxembourg and Count of Ligny. He married in 1597 Madeleine de Montmorency (1582-1615):
***Marguerite-Charlotte de Ligny (1607-1680), Duchess of Piney-Luxembourg and Countess of Ligny, married in Charles-Henri de Clermont-Tonnerre († 1674):
****Madeleine-Charlotte de Clermont-Tonnerre (1635-1701), Duchess of Piney-Luxembourg and Countess of Ligny, married in 1661
François-Henri de Montmorency-Bouteville, Count of Luxembourg (1628-1695):
***** Charles de Montmorency (1662-1726), Duke of Piney-Luxembourg and Count of Ligny, married in 1696 Marie-Gilonne Gillier de Clérembault (1677-1709), with issue.
***** Christian-Louis de Montmorency-Luxembourg (1675-1746), Prince of Tingry, married in 1711 Madeleine de Harlay de Beaumont (1694-1749), with issue.
* Diana (d. 1624), married:
*#Louis of Plusquelec, Count of Kerman
*#Justus of Pontailler, Baron of Pleurs
* Louise (1567-1647), married:
*# Baron George of Casaubon
*# Bernard of Béon, Seigneur de Massez
References
Counts of Ligny
House of Luxembourg
Year of birth unknown
1576 deaths
Counts of France
16th-century French nobility
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