Pierre d'Alcantara Charles Marie, Prince d'Arenberg, duc d'Arenberg, (Paris 2 October 1790 – Brussels 27 September 1877).
Pierre d'Alcantara Charles, was born on 2 October 1790 as 3rd son of
Louis Engelbert, 6th Duke of Arenberg
Louis Engelbert of Arenberg (3 August 1750 in Brussels – 7 March 1820 in Brussels), nicknamed ''the blind duke'', was between 1778 and 1801 the sixth Duke of Arenberg and 12th Duke of Aarschot. Between 1803 and 1810 he ruled a Duchy in North ...
. He entered into the service of France. He distinguished himself during the
campaigns in Spain and followed the Emperor
Napoleon the
Russian campaign, as an officer of ordinance. Made a peer of France on 25 November 1827, (Duke-Peer 1828) he became a naturalized French subject by order of King
Charles X
Charles X (born Charles Philippe, Count of Artois; 9 October 1757 – 6 November 1836) was King of France from 16 September 1824 until 2 August 1830. An uncle of the uncrowned Louis XVII and younger brother to reigning kings Louis XVI and L ...
, 28 February 1828.
[Charles Emmanuel Joseph Poplimont (1863), ''La Belgique héraldique', Typ. de G. Adriaens, 1863.]
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He was a member of the French Chamber of Peers.
He founded a new branch of the House of Arenberg
The House of Arenberg is an aristocratic lineage that is constituted by three successive families that took their name from Arenberg, a small territory of the Holy Roman Empire in the Eifel region. The inheritance of the House of Croÿ-Aarschot m ...
and his descendants still bear his title.
Marriage and children
He married twice. The first marriage took place in Paris on 27 January 1829, to Alix Marie Charlotte de Talleyrand (born on 4 November 1808, died on 21 September 1842) and had four children. The second marriage was on June 19, 1860, to Caroline Léopoldine Jeanne, princesse de Kaunitz- Rietberg-Questenberg (1801-1875).[
His children were these:
* Marie Nicolette (1830-1905), married Charles de Mérode, Marquis de Westerloo
* Ernest Marie (1833-1837)
* Louis Charles (1837-1870), murdered at St. Petersburg
* Auguste-Louis-Albéric (1837-1924), married Jeanne Marie Louise de Greffulhe
]
References
1790 births
1877 deaths
French military personnel of the Napoleonic Wars
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