Prince Jean Charles Lamoral de La Trémoïlle of Ligne-La Trémoïlle (16 June 1911 – 9 July 2005), 14th Duke of Thouars, 13th Duke of La Trémoïlle, 16th Prince de Tarente, 20th Prince de Talmond and 20th Count of Laval,

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, ''La Trémoïlle''.

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, 1944, p.463. French. was a Franco-Belgian nobleman and the only child of the French Princess Charlotte de La Trémoille and her Belgian husband, Prince Henri-Florent Lamoral of Ligne. Upon the death of his mother in 1971, he succeeded to all her French aristocratic titles as well as disputed potential claims to the

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Family Background

Although a junior member of the

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, he founded a distinct

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of that princely family: at the death of his childless maternal uncle,

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'', Prince Jean Charles legally appended his maternal surname, "de La Trémoïlle", to his own in Belgium. Hello!.

Marriage and Children

On 11 March 1942, he married in Paris, France Maria del Rosario de Lambertye-Gerbeviller, daughter of Charles Edmond de Lambertye, Marquis de Gerbeviller (b. 14 October 1922 in Paris). They had three children, all of whom married into princely families: * Hedwige Marie (b. 1943); who married at Antoing, Belgium in 1966 to Prince Charles de Merode (b. 1940). **

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* Charles-Antoine Lamoral (b. 1946), who married firstly in 1971 Lady Moira

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, daughter of the 9th Earl of Granard and his wife, Marie-Madeleine de Faucigny-Lucinge; after their divorce in 1975, he wed secondly at Neuilly-sur-Seine, France on 23 January 1976 Princess Alyette of Croÿ (b. 1951), from whom he was divorced in 2002. He has issue by the second marriage: :* Edouard Lamoral Rodolphe, born in Paris in 1976, and wed at

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29 June 2009 to film actress (and god-daughter of

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) Isabella Orsini (born at Perugia 2 December 1974). ::*Althea Isabelle Sophie ::*Athénaïs Allegra Isabella ::*Antoine Tao Édouard Adrien :* Charles Lamoral Joseph Malcolm, born in Paris in 1980, and wed at

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, France in 1973 to Prince Alain de Polignac (b. 1940). His legal title and style in Belgium was: "His Highness Jean Charles de Ligne de La Trémoïlle, Prince de Ligne."

References

1911 births 2005 deaths Jean Charles French nobility Belgian nobility Jean Charles Dukes of Thouars Dukes of La Trémoille People of Byzantine descent {{france-noble-stub