Louis-Emmanuel de Valois (Clermont-en-Auvergne, 28 April 1596 – Paris, 13 November 1653) was

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and

duke of Angoulême Duke is a male title either of a monarch ruling over a duchy, or of a member of royalty, or nobility. As rulers, dukes are ranked below emperors, kings, grand princes, grand dukes, and sovereign princes. As royalty or nobility, they are rank ...

Biography

Louis-Emmanuel de Valois, conte d'Alais, was the son of Charles de Valois, the illegitimate son of King Charles IX and

Marie Touchet Marie Touchet (; 1549 – 28 March 1638), Dame de Belleville, was the only mistress of Charles IX of France. Life Although born to a bourgeois family at Orléans, the daughter of Marie Mathy and a Huguenot lieutenant Jean Touchet, she "held ...

. His mother was Charlotte de Montmorency, daughter of

Henri I de Montmorency Henri I de Montmorency (15 June 1534 in Chantilly, Oise – 2 April 1614), Marshal of France, and Constable of France, seigneur of Damville, served as Governor of Languedoc from 1563 to 1614. Biography Born on 15 June 1534, Henri was the son ...

. Louis de Valois became

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of the Abbaye de la Chaise-Dieu in 1608, and Commendatory

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in 1612 until 1622, when he renounced his benefices. On 1 January 1624 he became Colonel-General of the Cavalry and on 17 April 1635 ''Maréchal de camp''.
On 29 October 1637 he was appointed Governor of the Provence, starting from January 1638. During the Fronde, he refused to obey the orders of Cardinal Mazarin and was recalled to Court in September 1650. He was replaced as governor in February 1653 and became Minister of State on 20 July 1653. He died 4 months later. On the death of his father in 1650, he became the 5th

Count of Auvergne This is a list of the various rulers of Auvergne. History In the 7th century Auvergne was disputed between the Franks and Aquitanians. It was later conquered by the Carolingians, and was integrated for a time into the kingdom of Aquitaine. The ...

and

Duke of Angoulême Duke is a male title either of a monarch ruling over a duchy, or of a member of royalty, or nobility. As rulers, dukes are ranked below emperors, kings, grand princes, grand dukes, and sovereign princes. As royalty or nobility, they are rank ...

Marriage and children

Louis-Emmanuel de Valois married on 8 February 1629 with Marie Henriette de La Guiche, dame de Chaumont (died 1682), daughter of Philibert de La Guiche,

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. They had: * Louis d’Angoulême (1630–1637) *

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(1631–1696), married

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, with issue. * Armand d'Angoulême (1635–1639) * François d'Angoulême (1639–1644) Louis-Emmanuel de Valois also had an illegitimate son: Antoine Charles Louis de Valois (1649–1701), chevalier d'Angoulême. He was probably responsible for the commissioning of the monumental

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s, designed by the noted French architect

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and constructed in 1648–1652 at his wife's

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, located in

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(

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), in a region formerly known as Charolais in southern

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.Anthony Gerbino, ''François Blondel: Architecture, Erudition, and the Scientific Revolution'', pp. 18–21. London and New York: Routledge, 2010. . The stables were designated a French ''

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'' in 1982 by the French Ministry of Culture. He also owned the

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References

Sources

*Jean Duquesne ''Dictionnaire des Gouverneurs de Province'' Éditions Christian, Paris 2002, , p. 189
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