Augustin Louis Joseph Casimir Gustave de Franquetot, 3rd Duke of Coigny (4 September 1788 – 2 May 1865) was a French aristocrat and soldier.

Early life

Franquetot was born in 1800 into the prominent Franquetot family. He was the son of François Marie Casimir de Franquetot, Marquis of Coigny (1756–1816), and Louise Gabrielle de Conflans (1743–1825). The family lived in Scotland as '' Émigrés'' of the French Revolution. Both of his grandfathers were prominent soldiers and

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. His maternal grandparents were Louis de Brienne de Conflans d'Armentières, Marquis of

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, and, his first wife, Adélaïde Jeanne Françoise de Bouterou d'Aubigny. His paternal grandparents were François-Henri de Franquetot de Coigny and Marie Jeanne de Bonnevie. His aunt, Antoinette Jeanne Françoise "Fanny" de Franquetot de Coigny, married Count

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, parents of Françoise, Duchess of Praslin, who was believed to have been murdered by her husband, Charles de Choiseul, 5th Duke of Praslin in August 1847. While awaiting trial by the Chamber of Peers, the Duke committed suicide by arsenic. Following the Teste–

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political corruption scandal revealed in May 1847, the affair only added to the popular discontent with the

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which culminated in the

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. Three brothers from the Guillotte family bought the

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of Franquetot, on the

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, in 1528. Their descendants took the surname de Franquetot and bought the neighboring fiefdom of

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in 1577, where they built the

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in 1598. In the 1720s, the château was enlarged and renovated by the Marquis of Coigny in the 1720s.

Career

In 1810, Franquetot kept a diary during his time on military service in Spain during the

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. As his father predeceased his grandfather, he became 3rd

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upon his grandfather's death on 19 May 1821. Similarly, his grandfather had inherited the dukedom upon the death of his grandfather, François de Franquetot, 1st Duke of Coigny (created 1747), in 1759, as his father, Jean, Marquis de Coigny, had been killed in a duel against Louis Auguste de Bourbon, Prince of Dombes in 1748.

Personal life

On 16 June 1822, Coigny married Henrietta Dundas Dalrymple-Hamilton (1801–1869), the daughter of

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and Hon. Jane Duncan (a daughter of Admiral

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).G.E. Cokayne; with Vicary Gibbs, H.A. Doubleday, Geoffrey H. White, Duncan Warrand and Lord Howard de Walden, editors,
The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, Extant, Extinct or Dormant, new ed., 13 volumes in 14
' (1910-1959; reprint in 6 volumes,

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, 2000), volume II, page 43. Together, they were the parents of:Mosley, Charles, editor. ''Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knightage, 107th edition'', 3 volumes (

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, 2003), volume 3, page 3715-3715. * Louisa Jane Henrietta Emily de Franquetot (1824–1896), who married her cousin, John Hamilton Dalrymple, 10th Earl of Stair, eldest son of

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. * Georgiana Jane Elizabeth Fanny de Franquetot (1826–1910), who married

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, son of

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and Mary Letitia Eyre, in 1852. The Duke of Coigny died on 2 May 1865. Upon his death without male issue, the dukedom became extinct.L. G. Pine,
The New Extinct Peerage 1884-1971: Containing Extinct, Abeyant, Dormant and Suspended Peerages With Genealogies and Arms
' (

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: Heraldry Today, 1972), page 190. His widow died in December 1869.

Descendants

Through his eldest daughter, he was a grandfather of eight, including

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, Lady Jane Georgina Dalrymple (wife of Sir

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), Lady Anne Henrietta Dalrymple (wife of Major-Gen. William Vesey Brownlow), and Hon. Sir Hew Hamilton Dalrymple.Death Certificate of Sir Hew, District of Canongate & Portobello, City of Edinburgh, 1945, p. 115, No. 343 Through his second daughter, he was a grandfather of five, including Lady Emily Annora Charlotte Pierrepont (wife of

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, and Hon. Evelyn Henry Pierrepont (father of the 6th Earl Manvers).

References

External links

Papers of the de Franquetot Family, Comtes and Ducs de Coigny, France, 1488-c.1984
at the University of Nottingham Manuscripts and Special Collections {{DEFAULTSORT:Franquetot De Coigny, Augustin Gustave De 1788 births 1865 deaths Dukes of Coigny