Henri Nompar de Caumont, 3rd
Duke of La Force (1582 – January 1678) was
Duc de La Force
The title of Duke of La Force, Peerage of France, Peer of France, in the peerage of France, was created in 1637 for members of the Caumont family, who were lords of the village of La Force, Dordogne, La Force in the Dordogne region.
The family ori ...
and
peer of France
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The prestigious title and position of Peer of France () was held by the greatest, highest-ranking members of the Fr ...
. He was the son of
Marshal of France
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,
Jacques-Nompar de Caumont, duc de La Force
Jacques Nompar de Caumont, 1st Duke of La Force () (30 December 1558 – 10 May 1652) was a Marshal of France and Peer of France. He was the son of a Huguenots, Huguenot, Francois de Caumont, lord of Castelnaud-la-Chapelle, Castelnau, and Philipp ...
and Charlotte de Gontaut, daughter of Marshal
Armand de Gontaut, baron de Biron. First marquis de Castelnau, later Duc de La Force after the death of his brother, he served King
Louis XIII
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on many occasions in the army, under his father, as
Maréchal-de-camp.
Marriage and issue
He married 17 October 1602, Marguerite d'Escodeca, dame de Boësse, and by her had nine children:
* Jacques de Caumont La Force, marquis de Boësse, killed in the siege of
La Mothe in
Lorraine
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in 1634
* Henri de Caumont La Force, died young
* Pierre de Caumont La Force, marquis de Cugnac, without issue
* Armand de Caumont La Force, marquis de Montpouillan, Lieutenant-general in the Dutch Army, Governor of
Naarden, died in
The Hague
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on 16 May 1701 at the age of 86. He married Amable-Guillelmine
de Brederode and Grace Angelique
Arrazola de Oñate.
* Charlotte de Caumont La Force, married Gabriel de Caumont,
comte de Lauzun, mother of
Antoine Nompar de Caumont
* Diane de Caumont La Force, married Charles-René du Puy de Tournon, marquis de Montbrun en Dauphiné
* Jeanne de Caumont La Force, married Cyrus de Montaut, marquis de Navailles,
seigneur
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de Beynac
* Jacqueline de Caumont La Force, died, 10 May 1702, married Henri de Vivant, comte de Panjas.
* Henriette de Caumont La Force,
demoiselle de Castelnau
Death
He died in January 1678 at the Château de La Force in the
Dordogne
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, and was succeeded by his grandson,
Jacques-Nompar.
Footnotes
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External links
Seigneurs de Caumont-La ForceLineage of the lords of Caumont and Dukes of La Force
1582 births
1678 deaths
Dukes of La Force
French marquesses
French soldiers
17th-century peers of France
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