François Vincent ''Marc'' de Beauvau, 1st

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(2 April 1676 - 10 March 1754), was a Lorrainese nobleman who served as

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History

Born in Nancy, the capital of the

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, he was the son of Louis, Marquis of Beauvau (1638–1703) and his second wife, Anne de Ligny. On 16 December 1704 he married Anne Marguerite de Lignéville (1686–1772) at

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. They had eight sons and 12 daughters. His wife Anne Marguerite was the mistress of his sovereign,

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. His sister, Catharine Diana de Beauveau, married the Irish Jacobite exile Owen O'Rourke.

Grand Duchy of Tuscany

He was governor of the ''regency council'' of the

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for Grand Duke Francesco, later

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, who had been declared successor of the last

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ruler in the Treaty of Vienna. He administrated for this prince from 1737 to 1754, with the title of

Titles

Having inherited the marquisate of Beauvau in Lorraine, he was created marquis of Craon on 21 August 1712 by

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. On 13 November 1722 he became an honorary

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under the title "Prince von Craon". On 8 May 1727 he was made a

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of the first class by

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, his son, Charles Juste, being admitted to the ''

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'' in

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with the princely title in 1755.

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. ''Beauvau-Craon''.

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, Gotha, 1944), pp. 373, (French).

Issue

The eight sons and 12 daughters are: #Élisabeth Charlotte de Beauvau (1705–1754), married Charles Ferdinand François de La Baume, Marquis of Saint-Martin, no issue. #Anne Marguerite Gabrielle de Beauvau (1707–1792), married Jacques Henri of Lorraine, Prince of Mortagne(-sur-Gironde), no issue ; married Gaston Pierre Charles de Lévis, Duke of Mirepoix, no issue. #Gabrielle Françoise de Beauvau (1708–1758), married Gabriel Alexandre d'Alsace de Henin-Liétard,

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, no issue. #Marie Philippe Tècle de Beauvau (1709–1748), Canoness of

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. #Nicolas Simon Jude de Beauvau (1710–1734), ''Abbé de Craon'', never married. # Marie Françoise de Beauvau (1711–1787), married Louis François de Boufflers, Marquis of Amestranges, no issue. #François Vincent Marc de Beauvau (1713–1742), '' Primat de Lorraine'', never married. #Léopold Clément de Beauvau (1714–1723), knight of the

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. #Marie Louise Eugénie de Beauvau (1715–1734), Abbess of Epinal. #Henriette Augustine de Beauvau (1716-?), nun in the

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. #Charlotte Nicole de Beauvau (1717–1787), married Léopold Clément de Bassompierre, no issue. #Anne Marguerite de Beauvau (1719-?), nun in Paris. #

Charles Juste de Beauvau Charles Juste de Beauvau, Prince of Craon (10 September 1720 – 21 May 1793), 2nd Prince of Craon (1754), Marshal of France (1783) was a French scholar, nobleman and general. The son of Marc de Beauvau, he was also brother of the famous Madame ...

(1720–1793), married Marie Sophie Charlotte de La Tour d'Auvergne daughter of Emmanuel Theodose de La Tour d'Auvergne, sovereign

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and

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and had issue; married Marie Charlotte Sylvie de Rohan, no issue. #Elisabeth de Beauvau (1722-?), Canoness in Poussy, then a nun in Paris. #Ferdinand Jerôme de Beauvau, Marquis of Haroué (1723–1790), married Louise Etienne Desmier and had issue. #Gabrielle Charlotte de Beauvau (1724–1790), Canoness in Remiremont, nun in Juvigny, last abbess of

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in Paris. #Alexandre Louis de Beauvau, Marquis de Craon (1725–1745), killed in action at the

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. #Béatrix Alexis de Beauvau (1727–1730). #Hilarion François Louis de Beauvau (b. and d. 1728). #Antoine de Beauvau (1730–1736).

References

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