Pierre d'Alcantara Charles Marie, Prince d'Arenberg, duc d'Arenberg, (Paris 2 October 1790 – Brussels 27 September 1877). Pierre d'Alcantara Charles, was born on 2 October 1790 as 3rd son of

Louis Engelbert, 6th Duke of Arenberg Louis Engelbert of Arenberg (3 August 1750 in Brussels – 7 March 1820 in Brussels), nicknamed ''the blind duke'', was between 1778 and 1801 the sixth Duke of Arenberg and 12th Duke of Aarschot. Between 1803 and 1810 he ruled a Duchy in North ...

. He entered into the service of France. He distinguished himself during the campaigns in Spain and followed the Emperor

Napoleon Napoleon Bonaparte ; it, Napoleone Bonaparte, ; co, Napulione Buonaparte. (born Napoleone Buonaparte; 15 August 1769 – 5 May 1821), later known by his regnal name Napoleon I, was a French military commander and political leader who ...

the

Russian campaign The French invasion of Russia, also known as the Russian campaign, the Second Polish War, the Army of Twenty nations, and the Patriotic War of 1812 was launched by Napoleon Bonaparte to force the Russian Empire back into the continental block ...

, as an officer of ordinance. Made a peer of France on 25 November 1827, (Duke-Peer 1828) he became a naturalized French subject by order of King

Charles X Charles X (born Charles Philippe, Count of Artois; 9 October 1757 – 6 November 1836) was King of France from 16 September 1824 until 2 August 1830. An uncle of the uncrowned Louis XVII and younger brother to reigning kings Louis XVI and Loui ...

, 28 February 1828.Charles Emmanuel Joseph Poplimont (1863), ''La Belgique héraldique', Typ. de G. Adriaens, 1863.
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/ref> He was a member of the French Chamber of Peers. He founded a new branch of the

House of Arenberg The House of Arenberg is an aristocratic lineage that is constituted by three successive families that took their name from Arenberg, a small territory of the Holy Roman Empire in the Eifel region. The inheritance of the House of Croÿ-Aarschot m ...

and his descendants still bear his title.

Marriage and children

He married twice. The first marriage took place in Paris on 27 January 1829, to Alix Marie Charlotte de Talleyrand (born on 4 November 1808, died on 21 September 1842) and had four children. The second marriage was on June 19, 1860, to Caroline Léopoldine Jeanne, princesse de Kaunitz-

Rietberg Rietberg () is a town in the district of Gütersloh in the state of North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It is located approximately 10 km south of Gütersloh and 25 km north-west of Paderborn in the region Ostwestfalen-Lippe. The town is lo ...

-Questenberg (1801-1875). His children were these: * Marie Nicolette (1830-1905), married Charles de Mérode, Marquis de Westerloo * Ernest Marie (1833-1837) * Louis Charles (1837-1870), murdered at St. Petersburg * Auguste-Louis-Albéric (1837-1924), married Jeanne Marie Louise de Greffulhe

References

1790 births 1877 deaths French military personnel of the Napoleonic Wars {{France-mil-bio-stub