Héraclius De Gramont, 9th Duke Of Gramont
Héraclius de Gramont, 9th Duke of Gramont (''Antoine Geneviève Héraclius Agénor''; 17 July 1789 – 3 March 1855), 9th Duke of Gramont, Duke of Guiche, Prince of Bidache, ''etc.'' was a 19th-century French aristocratic Army general and courtier. Early life De Gramont was born at Versailles, the only son of Antoine, 8th Duke of Gramont by his wife Aglaé, daughter of Gabrielle de Polastron, duchesse de Polignac, a court favourite of Queen Marie-Antoinette. One of his elder sisters, Aglaé-Angélique-Gabrielle (1787-1842) married firstly Count Aleksandr Lvovich Davydov (or Davidoff), who died 1833, and was ancestor of the Marquesses of Gabriac; the Dowager Countess Davidoff married secondly Count Horace Sébastiani de La Porta. Career When the French Revolution broke out, in the year of his birth, the De Gramont family left France for various parts of Europe: including Britain, Italy, Austria as well as Russia. Héraclius de Gramont joined his father in Mittau, who wa ...
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