Antoine D'Aumont, 1st Duke Of Aumont
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Antoine D'Aumont, 1st Duke Of Aumont
Antoine d'Aumont, 1st House of Aumont, Duke of Aumont (1601 - 1 January 1669) was a French nobility, nobleman who was created the 1st House of Aumont, Duke of Aumont in 1665 by King Louis XIV who had already created him a Marshal of France in 1651. His dukedom went extinct in 1888 after the death of the 10th Duke of Aumont Louis Marie Joseph d'Aumont The Duke commissioned the construction and exstention of what became the ''Hôtel d'Aumont'' which was painted by Charles Le Brun and gardens designed by André Le Nôtre and in 1938, was purchased by the Paris, City of Paris, and restored and classified as a ''monument historique''. Since 1959 the ''tribunal administratif'' of Paris has been housed in it. A radical restoration of the decayed framework was completed in 1964. Background He was the second son of de Jacques d'Aumont and his wife the heiress Charlotte de Villequier. Antoine was a grandson of the celebrated Marshal of France Jean VI d'Aumont, Jean d'Aumont, Count of Chât ...
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Duke Of Aumont
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 above sovereign princes. As royalty or nobility, they are ranked below grand dukes and above or below princes, depending on the country or specific title. The title comes from French ''duc'', itself from the Latin ''dux'', 'leader', a term used in republican Rome to refer to a military commander without an official rank (particularly one of Germanic or Celtic origin), and later coming to mean the leading military commander of a province. In most countries, the word ''duchess'' is the female equivalent. Following the reforms of the emperor Diocletian (which separated the civilian and military administrations of the Roman provinces), a ''dux'' became the military commander in each province. The title ''dux'', Hellenised to ''doux'', survived in the Eastern Roman Empire where it continued in sever ...
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