La Trémoille

Extinction

Louis Jean Marie de La Trémoille (8 February 1910 – 9 December 1933), Prince and 12th Duke of La Trémoille, 13th Duke of Thouars, 13th Prince of Tarente and 17th Prince of Talmond, was the only son and heir of Louis Charles de La Trémoïlle, 12th Duke of Thouars and 12th Prince of Taranto, and was the last male of the historic La Trémoille family. He died, unmarried and childless, at the age of 23 at the estate of Leander J. McCormick (son of L. Hamilton McCormick) in Whitchurch, Hampshire. It was noted in the New York Times at the time that his mysterious death by fire in England evoked the martyrdom at English hands of Joan of Arc five centuries earlier, who had been betrayed by the young Duke's ancestor, Georges de La Trémoïlle, founder of the family's fortune in France.