Louis de Pardaillan de Gondrin (July 1688 – 22 February 1712) was a French nobleman. He was a grandson of

Madame de Montespan Françoise-Athénaïs de Rochechouart de Mortemart, Marquise of Montespan (5 October 1640 – 27 May 1707), commonly known as Madame de Montespan (), was a French noblewoman and the most celebrated maîtresse-en-titre, royal mistress of King Lou ...

. He was known as the ''marquis de Gondrin'' during his lifetime.

Biography

Born at the Château of Montespan, he was the eldest of two sons born to

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and his wife Julie Françoise de Crussol (1669–1742), daughter of the

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. His younger brother

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was the Duke-Bishop of Langres. As the eldest, he was expected to succeed to be the head of the House of Pardaillan de Gondrin. Known as the Marquis of Gondrin in his lifetime, he was outlived by his father and as such never succeeded to the Duchy of Antin which was created in 1711 by

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 ...

. He married

Marie Victoire de Noailles ''Marie Victoire'' Sophie de Noailles, Countess of Toulouse (6 May 1688 in Versailles – 30 September 1766 in Paris), was a French noble and courtier. Her second spouse was Louis-Alexandre de Bourbon, comte de Toulouse, Louis Alexandre de Bourb ...

, one of the twenty children of the

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and Marie Françoise de Bournonville. The couple married on 25 January 1707. At the time of her first marriage, Marie Victoire, marquise de Gondrin, was a '' dame du palais'' to the king's granddaughter-in-law, the

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, future Dauphine of France and mother of King

Louis XV Louis XV (15 February 1710 – 10 May 1774), known as Louis the Beloved (), was King of France from 1 September 1715 until his death in 1774. He succeeded his great-grandfather Louis XIV at the age of five. Until he reached maturity (then defi ...

. Louis died in February 1712 at Versailles. He was succeeded by his son to the title Marquis of Gondrin. CORRECTION He died in 1758 in Arcadia (Nova Scotia) just before his family (second wife Marguerite dit La Sonde Marres and eight children) were all deported back to France (he likely died of a heart attack). Only two sons survived that sea voyage -- Louis and Barthelemew. On 2 February 1723, Marie Victoire married again, in a secret ceremony, the ''

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'', the legitimised younger son of Louis XIV and Madame de Montespan. The marriage was announced only after the death of the Régent in December of the same year.Lenotre, G. ''Le Château de Rambouillet, six siècles d'histoire'', Calmann-Lévy, Paris, 1930, reprint by Denoël, Paris, 1984, Chapter 3, ''Chez le fils du Roi-Soleil'', pp. 45–46 (French)

Issue

* Louis de Pardaillan de Gondrin (9 November 1707 – 9 December 1743), Duke of Antin, married Françoise Gillonne de Montmorency-Luxembourg and had issue; *Antoine François de Pardaillan de Gondrin (1709–1741), Marquis of Gondrin, never married.

Ancestry

References and notes

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French marquesses 1688 births 1712 deaths Heirs apparent who never acceded