Antoine d'Aumont, 1st

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 ...

(1601 - 1 January 1669) was a French

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who was created the 1st

in 1665 by King

Louis XIV LouisXIV (Louis-Dieudonné; 5 September 16381 September 1715), also known as Louis the Great () or the Sun King (), was King of France from 1643 until his death in 1715. His verified reign of 72 years and 110 days is the List of longest-reign ...

who had already created him a

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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 The Hôtel d'Aumont () is a former ''hôtel particulier () is the French term for a grand urban mansion, comparable to a Townhouse (Great Britain), British townhouse. Whereas an ordinary (house) was built as part of a row, sharing party walls ...

'' which was painted by

Charles Le Brun Charles Le Brun (; baptised 24 February 1619 – 12 February 1690) was a French Painting, painter, Physiognomy, physiognomist, Aesthetics, art theorist, and a director of several art schools of his time. He served as a court painter to Louis XIV, ...

and gardens designed by

André Le Nôtre André Le Nôtre (; 12 March 1613 – 15 September 1700), originally rendered as André Le Nostre, was a French landscape architect and the principal gardener of King Louis XIV of France. He was the landscape architect who designed Gardens ...

and in 1938, was purchased by the City of Paris, and restored and classified as a ''

monument historique () is a designation given to some national heritage sites in France. It may also refer to the state procedure in France by which national heritage protection is extended to a building, a specific part of a building, a collection of buildings, ...

''. 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

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ess Charlotte de Villequier. Antoine was a grandson of the celebrated Marshal of France Jean d'Aumont, Count of Châteauroux and baron of Estrabonne. Raised at the court of

Henry IV of France Henry IV (; 13 December 1553 – 14 May 1610), also known by the epithets Good King Henry (''le Bon Roi Henri'') or Henry the Great (''Henri le Grand''), was King of Navarre (as Henry III) from 1572 and King of France from 1589 to 16 ...

, Antoine was an '' enfant d'honneur'' of the future King

Louis XIII Louis XIII (; sometimes called the Just; 27 September 1601 – 14 May 1643) was King of France from 1610 until his death in 1643 and King of Navarre (as Louis II) from 1610 to 1620, when the crown of Navarre was merged with the French crown. ...

Marriage

In March 1629, he married Catherine Scaron, niece of

Paul Scarron Paul Scarron (; – 6 October 1660) (a.k.a. Monsieur Scarron) was a French poet, dramatist, and novelist, born in Paris. Though his precise birth date is unknown, he was baptized on 4 July 1610. Scarron was the first husband of Françoise d'A ...

Children

# Louis Marie Victor d'Aumont, 2nd Duke of Aumont (1632 - 1704) married Madeleine Le Tellier. #Charles d'Aumont, Abbot of the Abbey of Saint-Pierre d'Uzerches, Longuilliers, (?-1695) #Élisabeth d'Aumont married Charles Count of Broglio. #Catherine Marie d'Aumont, Abbess o the Abbey of Saint-Julien du Pré au Mans.

Honours

* 5 January 1651: Created a

. * 1665: created 1st Duke of Aumont and a

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. * 14 May 1633: created a Knight of the

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Arms

*''Français : Écartelé : 1, d'argent, au chevron de gueules, accompagné de 7 merlettes du même (4 et 3). (d'Aumont) ; 2, de gueules, à la croix fleurdelisée d'or, cantonnée de douze billettes du même (de Villequier) ; 3, contre-écartelé, aux 1 et 4, de (Chabot); au 2, d'argent, au lion de gueules, armé, lampassé et couronné d'or, la queue fourchée et passée en sautoir (Luxembourg); au 3, de gueules, à l'étoile à seize rais d'argent (Baux). (Alias: Marquis de Mirebeau, comtes de Charny etc ... mêmes armes.) ; 4, fascé-nébulé d'argent et de gueules (de Rochechouart) ; sur-le-tout de gueules, au chef échiqueté d'argent et d'azur (de Rochebaron).''''Créations des chevaliers de l'Ordre du St Esprit faits par Louis le Grand'', Bibliothèque nationale de France. Estampes et photographie.
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References and notes

{{Authority control Dukes of Aumont Peers of France French marquesses Marshals of France 1601 births 1669 deaths Military governors of Paris People from the Province of Île-de-France