Saturday, March 26, 2016

French Counts & Countesses

a.k.a. Comtesse Boneuil, Comtesse Nieuband.

 Her lovers were:
1) Duc d'Havre.
French Ambassador to Spain.

 2) Feodor Vassilievich Rostopchine.

 3) General Perignon.
French Ambassador to Spain.

 4) Herault Secheles.
Manuel de Godoy.jpg
Manuel de Godoy
5) Manuel de Godoy, Principe de Paz.

 6) Pavel I of Russia.

Annibal de Cocconas.
Comte de Cocconas.
(1530-1574)

His lovers were:
1) Claude-Catherine de Clermont
Marechale de Retz.
" . . . He began as a mercenary and came to France in 1569, where he served as Henry d'Anjou's Captain of Guards.  He was the lover of the Marechale de Retz and Henriette de Cleves... He was beheaded and quartered on 30 April 1574. . . ." (Dumas: 472)

2) Henriette von Kleve, Duchesse de Nevers
"Annibal, Comte de Coconnas, a Piedmontese, was the lover of the Duchess de Nevers, the intimate friend of the Duc d'Alencon, and with Comte de la Mole, one of the chiefs of the party of politicians or malcontents, who, it was said, had formed a scheme to carry off from court the King of Navarre, the Prince de Conde, and the Duc d'Alencon, of their own consent, and to the death of Charles IX, proclaim the last king. Examined by the king in person at Vincennes, he was executed on April 30, 1574, after making a full confession...[]." (Wraxall, 1863, p. 316).  "...One of the most furious of La Mole's pursuers is a Piedmontese gentleman, Count Hannibal de Coconnas, who has also arrived that day in the capital, and put up at the same hotel as La Mole. When the latter is rescued by Margaret, Coconnas wanders through Paris, killing all the Huguenots he can find...In a lonely part of the town he is overpowered by numbers, and is rescued from imminent peril by the Duke of Guise's sister-in-law, the Duchess of Nevers, that golden-haired, emerald-eyed dame...." (Blackwood, Vol. 58, 1845, p. 313)

3) Marguerite de Valois, Reine de France.

French opera singer.

a.k.a.
Anne-Cecile-Antoinette Clavel
Madame Saint-Huberty.

Daughter of a musician.

Wife of:
1. Sieur Croisilles de Saint-Huberty.
mar 1774.
2. Louis-Alexandre de Launay
Comte d'Antraigues
mar 1790.
Her lover was:
Louis-Alexandre de Launay
Comte d'Antraigues.
" . . . Under the Ancien Regime, a prima donna like Antoinette Saint Huberty (1765-1812) could become the queen of the Opera, renowned especially for her performance in the operas of Gluck, before her career was cut short by the Revolution, which forced her into English exile (and ultimately violent death) alongside her lover and then husband, the Comte d'Antraigues...." (McMillan, 2000, p. 61)
Charles de Flahaut
(1785-1870).
French general & statesman

a.k.a.
Auguste-Charles-Joseph, Comte de Flahaut de La Billardie
Charles de Flahaut.
Husband of:
Margaret Mercer Elphinstone
2nd Baroness Keith.
(1788-1867)
mar 1817
Comte de Flahaut's personal & family background:  "A French general and statesman, he was the illegitimate son of Charles Maurice de Talleyrand and Adèle de Flahaut. He fought under Napoleon I and served as ambassador to Berlin, London, and Vienna under Louis Philippe. He supported the coup (1851) of Louis Napoleon (later Napoleon III) and served again (1860-62) as ambassador to London. The lover of Hortense de Beauharnais, Flahaut was the father of Napoleon III’s half brother, the Duc de Morny.

"He was born in Paris, the son of Alexandre Sébastien de Flahaut de La Billarderie, comte de Flahaut de La Billarderie . . . and his wife Adélaïde Filleul, afterwards Mme de Souza-Botelho. Charles de Flahaut was generally recognized to be the offspring of his mother's liaison with Talleyrand, with whom he was closely connected throughout his life. His mother took him with her into exile in 1792, and they remained abroad until 1798." (Wikipedia)

His lovers were:
1) Anne Poniatowska, Countess Potocka.
Hortense de Beauharnais
Queen of Holland
2) Hortense de Beauharnais
Queen of Holland.
(1783-1837)
"In 1811 Hortense de Beauharnais, daughter of Empress Josephine, found herself pregnant by her lover, a handsome soldier named Charles de Flahaut.  Hortense had not lived with her husband, Louis Bonaparte, Napoleon's brother, for years.  Though Napoleon had made them king and queen of the Netherlands in 1806, Hortense reaped little benefit from her exalted status.  King Louis forced his wife to remain in her rooms---which smelled of sewage and overlooked a graveyard---while he enjoyed palace entertainments."  (Herman, 2007, p. 44) [Bio1] [Ref1] [Bio2] [Bio3] [Ref1]
3) Philippe I d'Orleans.
Ducs de Gramont Gallery.
Collection Gramont de Bayonne - France.

Augustin-Gabriel de Franquetot de Coigny
Comte de Coigny.
His lover was:
Victoire de Rohan
Princesse de Guemene
(1743-1807)
French aristocrat.

a.k.a.
Victoire-Armande-Josephe de Rohan, Dame de Clisson
Princesse de Maubisson
Madame de Guemene. 

". . . Victoire had fallen in love with one of Marie Antoinette's best male friends, Auguste Gabriel de Franquetot, Comte de Coigny, who had been widowed in 1775 and left with a six year old (sic) daughter, Aimee who Victoire was raising alongside her own children and who would later become the Duchesse de Fleury and brief muse of Andre Chenier.  Victoire and Augustin became lovers and were apparently devoted to each other. . . ."  (Madame Guillotine)
Casimir de Montrond.
(1768-1843)
French aristocrat & diplomat.
Comte de Montrond
Comte de Mouret.

a.k.a.
born Philippe-Francois-Casimir de Montrond
Casimir, Comte de Montrond

Husband of:
Aimee de Coigny.
married in 1792.
" . . . Her son Casimir remained in Paris during the Terror, and was imprisoned at Saint-Lazare, with the Duchess de Fleury, who, after her divorce, had resumed her name of Coigny; it was for her that Andre Chenier wrote "La Jeune Captive.' She owed her life to the intervention of Montrond; for a hundred louis he obtained her liberty as well as his own. After the 9th Thermidor, he married her, and they left together for England. Their honeymoon was not long; she obtained a divorce and returned to France, where she died in 1830 at the age of forty-four. There can be little doubt that the Memoirs which she left must have been of great interest; they were probably not flattering to her husband. Unfortunately, they were confided by her to Talleyrand, and they have disappeared; Montrond evidently obtained their suppression from his powerful friend." (The Nation, Volume 60: 234)

Montrond's personal & family background: "Montrond was a personality of the period.  Philippe Francois Casimir, as his Christian names ran, was born at Besancon, on February 10, 1769, the son of an officer in the French Guards, and of a fiery royalist mother who subsequently returned from her voluntary exile pitted by smallpox and deaf.  At nineteen years of age Montrond was a lieutenant in the Mestre-de-Camp Cavalry, and he took part in the early fights of the 1792 campaign, as A.D.C., successively, to Mathieu Dumas, Theodore de Lameth, and La Tour-Manbourg.  His dandified ways were famous.  'What scent will M. le Comte use this campaign?' his valet used to ask before each departure.  M. de Montrond avoided taking apart in those that savoured of Jacobinism.  In August, 1792, he resigned, which ultimately led to his being put under lock and key at Saint-Lazare. There he came to know that frivolous, amorous, Aimee de Coigny, a fellow-prisoner . . . ." (Pauline Bonaparte and Her Lovers: 152-157)

"Montrond was a personality of the period. Philippe Francois Casimir, as his Christian names ran, was born at Besancon, on February 10, 1769, the son of an officer in the French Guards, and of a fiery royalist mother who subsequently returned from her voluntary exile pitted by smallpox, and deaf.  At nineteen years of age Montrond was a lieutenant in the Mestre-de-Camp Cavalry, and he took part in in the early fights of the 1792 campaign, as A.D.C. successively, to Mathieu Dumas, Theodore de Lameth, and La Tour-Manbourg...."  (Fleischmann, pp. 152-154)

Montrond's personal appearance & personal qualities: " . . . His dandified ways were famous... Besides, to these attractions of ready and caustic repartee, he added others, more substantial ones. He was 'suave, fair, and rosy, with a Faublas figure, Hercules' shoulders, and the gracefulness of Adonis; a sword and spirit which commanded the respect of men, an eye and an energy which promised protection to women.' (Fleischmann, pp. 152-154) [Bio2:talleyrand.org]

" . . . He was 'suave, fair, and rosy, with a Faublas figure, Hercules' shoulders, and the gracefulness of Adonis; a sword and spirit which commanded the respect of men, an eye and an energy which promised protection to women.'  To this kind of protection Pauline was never averse.  The period, however, was unfortunately not one when she was wholly free to make the most of it.  M. de Montrond belonged to little cliques in which devotion to the Emperor was not regarded as essential.  He was implicated in certain intrigues which were not unknown to the police, and he let fall epigrams and witticisms which did not pass unheeded.  Napoleon took advantage of these facts to relieve Pauline of a lover who was inclined to boast. 'She was tenderly loved by her brother,' says Meneval,' in spite of some minor annoyances which she occasionally gave rise to.'  Was M. de Montrond one of these 'minor annoyances'?  No exact information is available, but the police requested him to take a rest after his amorous exertions, in the department of Dreux-Nethes at Antwerp, where he was thoughtfully recommended to the special care of the prefect, M. le chevalier de Voyer d'Argenson.  There he took up his quarters, in 1811, at the time Pauline was staying at the watering-place of Spa.  From Antwerp to Spa was put a few posts. M. de Montrond promptly covered them, and came to reside in the same house as his imperial mistress. 'The result of this stay was, it is said, a request for pardon for him transmitted by the Princess to her illustrious brother, but the request did not meet with the hoped-for result.'  It succeeded, nevertheless, thus far, that the exile was allowed nearer the capital, being authorized to stay at Ham, in Picardy, and subsequently at Chatillon-sur-Seine.  By this date it seems fairly clear that he had broken off all relations with Princess Borghese who, on the other hand, we know to have been fully occupied with m. de Canouville.  It was, therefore, without leaving regrets behind him that M. de Montrond suddenly escaped from this last dwelling-lace, July 12, 1812.  He passed over into England, where he remained till 1814.  On returning from Elba, the Emperor, knowing him to be Talleyrand's 'damned soul,' entrusted to him that mysterious mission to Vienna which is still but half understood.  There he failed brilliantly.  M. de Montrond's end was worthy of his early days.  A guest at the Prince of Benevento's table, this high patronage opened many doors to him.  He does not seem to have had any desire to induce Pauline's to open for him again. 'He was received everywhere, but without much respect,' writes Mme. Gabrielle Delessert, nee Laborde, of him on the back of a pastel she made of him in 1832. after Talleyrand's death, being without resources, he opened a secret gambling-hell.  The police shut their eyes, which allowed him to died (Oct. 18, 1843) without having become acquainted with the hard measure meted out by the Tribunal for misdemeanours."  (Pauline Bonaparte and Her Lovers: 152-157). [Ref1: Le Beau Montrond]

His lovers were:
1) Aimee de Coigny.
Duchesse de Fleury

(1627-1652).




1) Basile Fouquet.
(1622-1680)
Abbot of Barbeaux & of Rigny
Chancellor of the King's Orders


2) Jean-Francois-Paul de Gondi
Cardinal de Retz.

 Christophe de Harlay
Comte de Beaumont.
French ambassador to England.
His lover was:
Charlotte des Essarts
Comtesse de Romorantin
Comtesse de Romorantin.
(1580-1651).
Countess of Romorantin
Duchess of Vitry.
His relative
[Ref1]
Lover in 1602.
Cesar-Phoebus d'Albret
Comte de Miossens
@Musee de Versailles
(1614-1676)
French aristocrat, soldier,  marshal & court gallant.
Duke of Albret
Count of Mossens
Lord of Pons
Prince of Mortagne
Sovereign Lord of Bedeilles
Chevalier of the Ordres du Roi.
Marshal of France 1646
Governor of Guyenne 1670-1676

Husband of:
Madeleine de Guenegaud
daughter of
Gabriel de Guenegaud
Seigneur du Plessis-Belleville
Secretary of State
of the Maison du Roi
mar 1645.

 His lovers were:
Bonne de Pons, Madame d'Heudicourt, 1660?
by Unknown artist
@ Musee Francisque-Mande

(1641-1709)
French aristocrat & royal mistress
Lady-in-waiting to Queen Maria Theresia

 a.k.a.
Bonne d'Heudicourt
Bonne de Pons d'Heudicourt
Madame d'Heudicourt.

 Wife of:
Michel Sublet, Marquis d'Heudicourt
Master of the Hunt at the Court
[Ref1]

2) Marguerite de Bethune-Sully
Madame d'Olone:
3) Marion Delorme.
French courtesan.

4) Ninon de l'Enclos.
French courtesan
Charles I de Cosse
Comte de Brissac
(1505-1563)
French courtier, soldier & diplomat. 

a.k.a.
Charles I de Cosse
le Beau Brissac
the Handsome Brissac
Marechal Brissac.

Husband of:
Charlotte Le Seur d'Esquetot.
The Marshal's conquests:  "In love as well as in war le beau Brissac carried all before him.  La Duchesse d'Etampes and Diane de Poitiers, the mistress of Francis I and the mistress of Henry II, were said to have been among his conquests.  And 'inevitable himan malignity,' in the person of Brantome, the greatest scandalmonger of the age, has bracketed his name with that of our Margaret.  Bratome goes so far as to hint that Margaret was the mother of a natural child born to Brissac before he became governor of Piedmont.  But nowadays no serious historian pays any attention to Brantome.  He is now known to have merely gathered up all the gossip of the court. . . ." (Margaret of France, Duchess of Savoy, 1523-74: 27)

 His lovers were:
Anne de Pisseleu
Duchesse d'Etampes
1) Anne de Pisseleu
Duchesse d'Etampes.
(1508-1580)
Diane de Poitiers
2) Diane de Poitiers.
(1566-1618)
French noblewoman & courtier
Marguerite de France
Duchesse de Berri
Duchesse de Savoie
by After Clouet
@ Conservatoire National des Arts et Metiers
3) Marguerite de France
Duchesse de Savoie.
(1523-1574)
Charles I de Cosse
Comte de Brissac
Charles I de Cosse
Comte de Brissac
Physical Traits & Personal Qualities:  ". . . His handsome mien and his fine raiment were the theme of more than one foreign ambassador's pen.  The Venetian ambassador, Alvarotto, told how in hooded cape of green velvet, falling over a corselet beautifully gilt, with hat of green silk decked with white feathers. and bearing a lance of ash, from which floated green and white streamers, Brissac had tilted before the King and Queen.  On the battlefield Brissac was as brilliant as in the lists.  'Were I not dauphin, I would be Colonel Brissac,' exclaimed Henry, when Charles de Cosse effected a difficult capture of artillery at the siege of Perpignan."  (Stephens, 1912, p. 26)
Charles I de Cosse
Comte de Brissac
Honours & Achievements:  Enfant d'Honneur & Premier Ecuyer to Dauphin Francois; Grand Falconer of France (1540); Grand Penetier; Colonel-General of the Cavalry (1548-1549); Marshal of France (1550); Grand Master of the Artillery; Comte de Brissac; Governor of Piedmont (1550); Governor of Picardy (1559); Commandeer of Paris (1562); Governor of Normandy (1563).

Charles-Alexis Brulard de Sillery
Comte de Genlis.
Husband of:
Felicite de Genlis.
His lover was:
Agnes de Buffon
Comtesse de Buffon.
(1767-1808)

a.k.a.
Marguerite-Francoise Bouvier de La Mothe de Cepy
Comtesse de Buffon.
Francoise-Marguerite Bouvier de Cepy.
" . . . Agnes de Buffon was managed into her mistress-ship by Felicite, having been previously the mistress of Felicite's own husband, the Comte de Genlis. . . ." (The Guardian)

" . . . Count Genlis, aware of his wife's affair with Philippe, also left the Palais to live with his new mistress, Agnes de Buffon, and was rumored to be leading a life of gambling and debauchery on the Place Vendome." (Banat, 2006, p. 219)

" . . . Oddly, she (i.e., Madame de Genlis, his wife) appears to have borne little resentment towards her husband's current mistress, Agnes de Buffon, who was living openly with him in London. Her warm feelings towards the present incumbent were expressed in a curious letter to Louis Philippe Joseph written when he was in London. 'I confess that at the beginning of your liaison with her I was in despair. Accustomed as I was to your phantasies, I was frightened and profoundly affected when I saw you form a tie which could take away your confidence from me. Mme de Buffon's behaviour since you have formed the connection with her has made me reconsider the prejudices which I had against her. I have recognized that she has so true and so disinterested an attachment for you, and her feeling for me is so perfect, that I cannot help being interested in her.'" (Godfather of the Revolution: The Life of Philippe Egalite, Duc d'Orleans: 182))

Christophe de Harlay
Comte de Beaumont.
(1570-1615)
French diplomat.
President of Paris Parliament (1582)
Prefect of the King's Privy Council
French ambassador to England (1602-1605).

a.k.a. Christophe II de Harlay.

Wife of:
(married in 1599)
Anne Rabot
Dame d'Illins.
(married in 1599)

His lover was:
Charlotte des Essarts
His cousin
Lover in 1602.
[Ref1:Westminster Abbey]
[Ref2:Tudor Blog]

 Comte d'Egreville.
His lover was:
Rosalie Astrodi.
(1733-1756)
Italian singer, dancer, and actress.
". . . "The dancer Mademoiselle Retz took the duke away. Astrodi, who had been seeing three other lovers anyway, took revenge by forming a liaison with Retz's lover, the count d'Egreville, a rich and handsome military officer. . . ." (Daughters of Eve. . .:44)
Diane de Polignac
Diane de Polignac, Comtesse de Polignac
(1746-1818)

Maid-of-Honour ro Princesse Elizabeth de France.

a.k.a. Diane-Louise-Augustine de Polignac.

Her lover was:
Jean-Therese-Louis de Beaumont, Marquis d'Autichamp.
" . . . One of these Dianes was the family stepping-stone to fame. She obtained...the post of lady-in-waiting to the Comtesse d'Artois. 'In Diane de Polignac,' says de Goncourt, 'the woman was nothing and wit everything. She had only to speak to make one forget her figure, her face, her clothes, the little, in fact, that she had received in the way of beauty or did to obtain it. A malicious manner of seizing on the ridiculous, a certain piquant turn of mind, a talent for epigrammatic conversation, rendered her not only amusing, but almost seductive, in spite of nature.' She was soon 'the heart and soul of the Court,' and in spite of the scandal of her liaison with the Marquis d'Autichamp---the same who commanded the Gendarmerie at Luneville when the Lamottes were in garrison there---she succeeded in ingratiating herself into the favour of the Royal Family, with whom she was always a persona grata. To enable her to retain her post of lady-in-waiting, of which the salary was totally inadequate to support one, like herself, without private means at Versailles, the King affiliated her to one of the religious chapters, so numerous under the ancien regime, which conferred on its members the title of canoness and a considerable income without requiring from the beneficiary any return whatsoever. Later, as a further mark of the royal esteem, the lay chanoinesse was created a countess in her own right, and promoted from a mere lady-in-waiting of the Comtesse d'Artois to the head of the household of Madame Elizabeth." (Trowbridge, 2003, pp. 269-270) [Ref1] [Ref2] [Ref3] [Ref4]

Austrian ambassador to the French Court.
His lover was:

Rosalie Levasseur
Rosalie Levasseur (1749-1826)
French opera singer.
Daughter of: Jean-Baptiste Levasseur, a singer in Valenciennes.
" . . . Another star of the Revolutionary Opera was Rosalie Levasseur (1749-1826), also highly esteemed by her teacher Gluck and the lover of the Austrian ambassador Mercy-Argenteau. . . ." (McMillan, 2000, p. 61)

 Francoise Mosselman
Comtesse Le Hon.
(1808-1880)
Belgian noblewoman.

a.k.a.
Francoise-Zoe-Mathilde Mosselman
Fanny Mosselman
Fanny Mosselman du Chenoy, Comtesse Le Hon or Lehon
Comtesse Fanny Le Hon.

Daughter of:
Francois-Dominique Mosselman
a rich Belgian banker and industrialist
& Louise Tacque.
Wife of:
Charles Le Hon
mar 1827.
Her lovers were:
Charles de Morny
1st Duc de Morny
1) Charles de Morny
1st Duc de Morny.
(1811-1865)
French statesman. 
Lover in 1833.

Natural Offspring: 
Louise (1838-1931).
"For more than twenty years, Mme. Le Hon had been Morny's faithful mistress, and the note he sent her from Russia to announce the affair's end, 'France disapproves our liaison,' was not calculated to appease her jealous anger. She showed the note around Paris to everyone's entertainment, actually went into mourning, and received calls of condolence." (Williams, 1957, p.52)

 2) Charles-Joseph, Comte Bresson.
(1798-1847)
French diplomat
Natural offspring:

Leopold (1832-1879)
"In 1830 he was ordered to notify Switzerland of Louis-Philippe's accession to the French throne, before becoming first secretary to the French embassy in London under Talleyrand. He was one of two diplomats given the task of forcing the Belgian government to accept the decisions of the London Conference, a task he acquitted well. To the king's satisfaction, he then led the marriage negotiations as to a match between the new king of Belgium Leopold I with princess Louise d'Orléans. That success brought him to the height of favour with Louis-Philippe. During this era he also became the lover of the Belgian ambassador's wife, the comtesse Le Hon, allegedly fathering her son Léopold (born 1832)". (Wikipedia)


 Lioness in French Society: "Countess Le Hon, nee Mosselman, was the daughter of a ranking Belgian banker and the wife of His Belgian Majesty's first Ambassador to France. She kept up a discreet correspondence with Hortense until the latter's death, became a lioness in French society, and made important cash advances to her lover. Presumably it was her money which enabled Morny to play the stock market and to invest in a newspaper. The latter venture was not exactly a success. . . . " (Williams, 1957, p. 43)

Gaspard III de Vichy
Comte de Champron.
(1699-1781)
French aristocrat & military officer.
a.k.a. Gaspard-Nicolas de Vichy.

Son of:
Gaspard II de Vichy
Marquis de Champrond
& Anne Brulart.

Husband of:
Diane d'Albon
(1716-1773)
a.k.a. Marie-Camille-Diane d'Albon.
mar 1739
Daughter of his mistress
Julie d'Albon.

His lover was:
Julie d'Albon
Princesse d'Yvetot.
(1695-1748)
Princesse d'Yvetot
Marquise de Saint-Forgeux
Barone d'Avauges
Vicomtesse de Talaru
Vicomtesse de Varennes.

a.k.a.
Madame de Vichy
Natural offspring:
1. Hilaire Hubert
(1731-?)
2. Julie de Lespinasse
(1732-1776)

Daughter of:
Camille d'Albon
Prince d'Yvetot.
(1657-1729)
& Julie-Francoise de Crevant
(1671-1698)

Wife of:
Claude d'Albon
Comte de Saint-Marcel-d'Urfe
(1687-1772)
"Julie-Jeanne-Eleonore de Lespinasse was born in 1732, the illegitimate daughter of the Countess Julie-Claude-Hilaire d'Albon, sole heiress of an old illustrious family. At the age of sixteen, Countess d'Albon had been married off to Count Claude d'Albon, the last offspring of the family's elder branch, and a distant cousin.  She separated from her husband at the time of her daughter's birth. The little girl was baptized as the child of Claude Lespinasse, bourgeois of Lyons, and dame Julie Navarre, his wife, both wholly fictitious characters. A great deal of mystery surrounded the identity of Julie de Lespinasse's father...  It was even rumored that she was the daughter of the notorious Cardinal de Tencin...  (I)t was established by Julie de Lespinasse's first serious biographer, the Marquis de Segur, that her father was Gaspard de Vichy-Chamrond, brother of Madame du Deffand, one of the most famous salonnieres of the eighteenth century."  (Sartori, 1994, p. 297)

(1618-1673)

French poetess.

a.k.a. Henriette de Coligny de La Suze.

Daughter of:

Gaspard III de Coligny

Marechal de Chatillon

& Anne de Polignac..

Wife of:

1. Thomas Hamilton, Earl of Haddington

(married in 1643)

2. Gaspard de Champagne, Comte de la Suze

(married in 1653, separated 1661)

[Ref1:Robertson]


Her lovers were:

1) Comte de Lude.


2) Henri II Lorraine
5th Duc de Guise.

 3) Hercule de Lacger.
Physical Appearance & Personality: " . . . Contemporaries differ as to her physical attributes: some call her a beauty, but others are far less complimentary. . . . " (French Women Poets of Nine Centuries: The Distaff and the Pen:286)

Honore-Gabriel Riquetto
Comte de Mirabeau.
(1749-1791)
French revolutionary
[Bio2] [Bio2]
His lover was:
Sophie de Ruffey
Marquise de Monnier
(1754-1789).

Jacqueline de Bueil
Comtesse de Moret
(1580-1651).

Jacqueline, Comtesse de Moret (1605)

Marquise de Vardes.

Daughter of:

Claude de Bueil

Seigneur de Courcillon and de de La Marchere

& Catherine Montecler.

Wife of:

1. Philippe de Harlay de Champvallon, Comte de Cresy

(married by the King in 1604, divorced 1607)


 2. Rene Bec Crespin, Marquis de Vardes

(married in 1617)

Jacqueline de Bueil
Comtesse de Moret

Jacqueline de Bueil
Comtesse de Moret 

Her lovers were:

1) Henri IV de France.

Lover in 1604-1608.

" . . . [H]e became enamoured of Mademoiselle de Bueil, a young beauty who had recently appeared at court in the suite of the Princess de Conde. The extraordinary loveliness of the youthful orphan at once riveted the attention of the King, and her own inexperience made her, in so licentious a court as that of Henry IV, an easy victim; so easy, indeed, that the libertine monarch did not even affect towards her the same consideration which he had shown to his former favourites; although her extraordinary personal perfections sufficed to render her society at this period indispensable to him." (Pardoe, p. 291)

(1578-1657)

 3) Charles Emmanuel de Lorraine

Comte de Sommerive.
(1581-1609)

Natural Offspring:

Antoine de Bourbon-Bueil
(1607-1632)
" . . . [He] was legitimated in 1608, and was killed during the subsequent reign at the battle of Castelnaudary, while serving under the Duc de Montmorency."

 Jacques-Antoine-Hippolyte
(1743-1790)
French general & military writer.
Comte de Stainville
a.k.a. Jacques-Philippe, Comte de Stainville; Jacques-Philippe de Choiseul-Stainville.

 Husband of Thomase Therese de Clermont d'Amboise, daughter of Jacques Louis Georges de Clermont d'Amboise, Marquis de Reynel and Marie Henriette Racine du Jonquoy, mar 1761.

 "M. de Stainville,' Durfort noted, 'was known in Paris for his wit. Although extremely ungly [he had carrot-colored hair, a turned-up nose and thick lips] he lived the life of a Don Juan and was said to be one of the most bitingly funny men in the city. His mind was subtle, delicate, amiable,' Of course, his cousin kept him abreast of the progress of her romance with the king. Stainville was a notable seducer and, quite possibly, Mme de Choiseul was being flirtatious while bringing her family into her new fortune. Here was the beginning of a new party at court, in which the Choiseul family would have the first place; besides, it must have been hard for a girl of eighteen not to crow about the fact that she had seduced the king. Perhaps Stainville expressed doubt; in any event, the comtesse produced a letter from her lover which, amid the clearest expressions of endearment, promised to send Mme de Pompadour away. At that point, M. de Stainville had a flash of genius: He asked whether he might keep the letter overnight. The foolish comtesse said he could.

His lover was:
Antoinette Crozat du Chatel, Duchesse de Gontaut
"M. de Stainville was the lover of Madame de Gontaut whose affection for him 'amounted to distraction.'  She was the eldest daughter of M. Crozat du Chatel, lieutenant-general and Corden Rouge, under whom the Comte had served in the war of 1740. . . ."  (Talleyrand-Perigord, p. 339)

Jean-Baptiste du Barry
Comte du Barry.
(1723-1794)

a.k.a.
Jean du Barry, Comte du Barry
His lovers were:
Lover in 1763
2) Zofia Clavone, Comtesse Potocka.
(1760-1822)
Jeanne de Valois-Saint-Remy
Comtesse de La Motte 

a.k.a.
Jeanne de La Motte

Comtesse de La Motte

Comtesse de La Motte-Valois.

[Bio2] [Ref1] [Ref2]

Daughter of:

Jacques de Valois -Saint-Remy
& Marie Jossel.
Wife of:

1. Marc Antoine-Nicolas de la Motte

(1755-1831)

an officer of the gendarmes

2. Honore Armand de Villars, 2nd Duc de Villars.


Her lovers were:
1) Abbe Phaph.

"Exactly one year subsequently, namely, in September, 1787, we find a certain Abbe Phaph interesting himself very warmly in the young lady's affairs and writing to the countess, who has only recently arrived in England, urging her to sign some document which he has prepared, the effect of which would be to give the sister a charge upon the De la Motte property at Bar-sur-Aube... The next we hear Mademoiselle de Saint-Remi is that she is living openly with the aforesaid Abbe as his mistress...." (Vizetelly, 1881, p. 344)



2) Armand-Gabriel Retaux de Villete.

(1759-1797) 

" . . . By dint of investigation, the magistrates had established the fact that the word 'approved' and the alleged signature of the Queen on the contract, were the work of Retaux de Villette, a former gendarme, and a robust athlete, who was Mme de La Motte's specially favoured lover. He was pressed to confess it. But even thieves have a sense of honour, and Retaux de Villette, rather than disgrace his mistress, preferred to be obstinately silent on this point." (Photiades, 2003, p. 205)


3) Louis de Rohan
Cardinal de Rohan.

Lover in 1783.
"Jeanne de Saint-Remy de Valois, Countess de la Motte (1756 - 1791), was infamous for her involvement in the 'Affair of the Diamond Necklace', the scandal which contributed to the downfall of the French monarchy - Napoleon once remarked, 'The Queen's death must be dated from the Diamond Necklace Trial'. Jeanne de la Motte, imprisoned after her trial, escaped from the Bastille and fled to London, where she published her memoirs, adding to the revolutionary fervour in France. In June 1791, to escape bailiffs (although she assumed they were the agents of the Duke of Orleans) she climbed out of a third floor window at her Lambeth lodgings and fell into the street below. The countess died two months later from her injuries and was buried in the churchyard of St. Mary's. 18th century." (Wikipedia)

"Such was the Cardinal de Rohan, and such his desires, when he first met the person who styled herself the Countess de la Motte, formerly Jeanne de Saint Remy de Valois. The woman who was to gain so strange and sinister a renown might think that her descent fitted her to expect great things. She claimed to be the kin of royalty, being a descendant of Henri de Saint Remy, a bastard son of Henri II. However high the origin of the family, it had fallen. Her father married the daughter of a concierge... The Baron de Valois, as Jeanne's father styled himself, died in a public hospital. She was befriended by the Marquise de Boulainvillers. A small pension was obtained from Louis XVI on the score of Jeanne's royal descent. Though not pretty, she was graceful and pleasing, and had a face with a certain piquancy. She married a soldier of fortune, called Lamotte, on whom she at once bestowed the title of count... In 1781, when about twenty-five years old, her friend, Mme. de Boulainvilliers, presented her to the Cardinal de Rohan at his great palace at Saverne. He took some interest in the countess on account of her royal descent and present misfortunes... Their relations became somewhat intimate. Jeanne insinuated, in her evidence, that she was the cardinal's mistress. He claimed that he saw her but rarely...." (American Law Review, Vol. 13, 1879, pp. 468-469)

". . . Villette pronounces all the 'Memoires' put forth for the sole purpose of concealing the truth. Of the countess's liaisons he speaks in the most open terms. 'Abandoned,' he says, 'by her husband, a depraved libertine and gambler, she sought to captivate other men, and to render them slaves to her charms.' What these charms were, Villete himself shall tell. 'Strong natural wit, a graceful figure, a white and transparent skin, and eyes bright and piercing.' He says that he possessed the countess;s entire confidence, and knew of all her intrigues, and particularly her liaisons with the cardinal; he then proceeds to say that she was seduced in the first instance by the Marquis de Boulainvillers and that she afterwards admitted the Bishop of Langres to her embraces, that the Marquis d'Autichamp was her next lover, that she had a liaison with the Count d'Artois even, and reckoned the Count de Dolomieu and M. de Coigny on the list of those she had ensnared. 'I have described her,' concludes Vilette, 'as she was---amiable, pretty, and over-complaisant; to good not to have been a trifle weak, too passionate not to have been somewhat of a libertine. This woman, whom I loved to adoration, and who had loaded me with benefits, I dared to betray.'" (Vizetelly, 1881, pp. 345-346)
(1818-1858)
French aristocrat & diplomat.
a.k.a. Gabriel-Paul-Josselin-Lionel de Guigues de Moreton de Chabrillan.
First Consul of France in Melbourne, 1852-1858.
[Bio2] [Ref5:x]

His lover was:
"...In January 1854, much against the wishes of his family, he married his mistress, Celeste Venard, in the French Embassy in London.  The couple sailed on board the Croesus and arrived in April 1854 at Port Philip, where the Comte once again undertook his consular duties." (Reilly).

First Encounter:  "The true passion of her life, however, was Lionel.  She fell in love with him the night she met him and remained true to him, in her fashion, until she died.  Her love for Lionel, like all passions, was complex. . . . "  (Chabrillan, 2000, p. xviii)

Why Her?:  ". . . The comte seemed to have been primarily attracted to her beauty, and his desire for her became an obsession that seemed to have more to do with lust than love; he could not stay away from her, however much he tried, in spite of his good sense and class responsibilities.  Eventually the two lovers matured emotionally, and their physical attraction turned into love.  During his absence from Celeste as he panned for gold in Australia, Lionel's heart grew fonder of the woman for whom he had lost everything: family, reputation and fortune. . . . "  (Chabrillan, 2000, p. xviii)

Physical Traits & Personal Qualities:  ". . . Certainly he was a vey handsome man; his portrait at the Musee Carnavalet in Paris reveals a dark-eyed young man with an intelligent face and a majestic bearing.  He was charming and kind but prone to arrogance and selfishness. . . . "  (Chabrillan, 2000, p. xviii)

Personal & Family Background:  "His father was a General in the French Army, and his mother was the Marquise de Choiseul before her marriage." (Reilly)
Louis II de Chalon (1380-1422).
Count of Tonnerre 1398-1410; Lord of Rochefort, Montaigu, Chatelbelin and Arinthod, 1398-1424.

Son of: Louis I de Chalon & Marie de Parthenay.

Husband of: Marie de la Tremoille, daughter of Guy de la Tremoille, Comte de Guines & Marie de Sully, Comtesse de Guines, mar 1402.

His lover was:
Juana de Perellos.
"Louis II of Chalon had married Marie de la Tremoille in 1402, only to repudiate her. In the winter of 1406-07, he forcibly abducted his lover, Juana de Perellos, an Aragonese lady-in-waiting to Margaret of Bavaria, duchess of Burgundy, from the ducal court of Douai. The couple's enduring relationship produced two illegitimate sons, of whom only one survived. While John the Fearless punished his recalcitrant vassal by confiscating the count's possessions in Burgundy, Louis petitioned the papal court for the annulment of his marriage to Marie de la Tremoille on the grounds of consanguinity. In May 1410, desirous of rapprochement with the duke of Burgundy and especially eager to recover his lands, Louis agreed to submit to an ecclesiastical court that would decide which of the two women he must accept as his legitimate wife. . . The outcome of the case in not clear. It is assumed that Louis obtained the annulment, because he never reconciled with la Tremoille. On the other hand, his surviving son by Juana seems not to have been legitimized. Louis II found himself accused of treason with the Armagnacs. . . ." (The Art of Healing: Painting for the Sick and the Sinner in a Medieval Town: 154-155)

 "Some time during the winter of 1406-07, while John's wife the duchess Margaret of Bavaria was holding court at Douai, a young noble from the county of Burgundy, Louis de Chalon, who had become count of Tonnerre in 1398 and who was a brother of Jehan de Chalon, prince of Orange, fell in love with an Aragonese lady-in-waiting of Margaret of Bavaria called Juana de Perellos. Her charms proved irresistible, and his passion drove Louis de Chalon to an unpardonable indiscretion: he broke into the duchess's apartments at night; carried off his paramour by force of arms; and installed her as his mistress in the castle of Maulne in his county of Tonnerre, which lay on the north-west frontier of the duchy of Burgundy. Not that this sort of thing was particularly unusual, but Louis had insulted the duchess of Burgundy. Moreover, he happened to be married to Marie de la Tremoille. John the Fearless was nbound to take action. After three summonses against him had failed to produce the culprit, the duke, on 13 March 1407, ordered the confiscation of all his lands in the duchy of Burgundy and, at the same summer, he was banished from the county of Burgundy and his lands there seized. Louis de Chalon's reaction to these measures was to apply to the papal court for th annulment of his marriage with Marie de la Tremoille; to raise funds by the sale of his lands, including the county of Tonnerre, which John the Fearless ordered his gens des comptes at Dijon to bid for when it came up for auction in August 1407; and finally, in 1408, he appeared in arms in the county of Burgundy. Although he was pardoned by John the Fearless in 1410, Louis de Chalon had been thoroughly alienated and, as we shall see in a later chapter, he became from then on one of the leading supporters of the Armagnacs in the two Burgundies." (John the Fearless: The Growth of Burgundian Power, Volume 2: 10-11)
(1753-1812)
French writer, diplomat and secret agent.
Born Emmanuel-Henri-Louis-Alexandre de Launay.
[Bio1
His lover was:
Antoinette Saint-Huberty.
(1721-1788)
Son of:
Lt.-Gen. Andrew Drummond
Comte de Melfort
& Magdalene-Silvie de Sainte-Hermine
Husband of:
Jeanne-Elisabeth de la Porte
daughter of
Pierre-Jean-Francois de la Porte
Marquis de Presles.

His lover was:
Louise-Henriette de Bourbon
Duchesse d'Orleans
"He gained the rank of Cornet in the service of the Gesvre Cavalerie. He held the office of Siege of Phillipsburg in 1734. He fought in the War of Polish Succession. He fought in the War of Austrian Succession between 1740 and 1748. He fought in the Seven Years War between 1756 and 1763. He was decorated with the award of the Grand Cross, Order of St. Louis. He gained the rank of Lieutenant-General in the service of the French Army. He was Inspector-General of Cavalry."  (The Peerage)
Louis-Marie de Narbonne-Lara

(1755-1813)
a.k.a.
Louis-Marie-Jacques-Amalric, Comte de Narbonne-Lara
Louis, Comte de Narbonne-Lara; Louis de Narbonne
Louis de Bourbon, Comte de Narbonne-Lara.

His lovers were:
1) Catherine-Jeanne Tavernier de Boullogne, Vicomtesse de Laval.

2) Germaine Necker, Baronne de Stael-Holstein.
"Louis, Vicomte de Narbonne-Lara, was thirty-three years old when Germaine met him.  He was not only handsome, intelligent, sensitive, and a notorious conqueror of hearts: he was also cloaked in mystery.  Born in Italy, in a castle belonging to the Duke of Parma, he was the son of--but who knows Perhaps Louis XV and the Comtesse de Narbonne-Lara;  or even, as rumor had it, of Louis XV and his daughter, Madame Adelaide.  He was baptized at Versailles, with Madame Adelaide as godmother, the future Louis XVI as godfather, and the Comte de Narbonne-Lara conspicuously absent.  Brought up like a prince of the blood, he spent, in quick succession, the fortunes of the Comtesse de Narbonne, of Madame Adelaide, and of his wife, whom he married in 1782...  At the time he met Germaine, all he had to show for the first thirty-three years of his life was a host of mistresses, at least two illegitimate children, and an incalculable accumulation of debts.  But he possessed the same indefinable charm, the same refined simplicity of manners as Talleyrand and added to these both physical beauty and a certain nobility and idealism."  (Herold, 2002, p. 94)

3) Jeanne Pitrrot-Vertreil.

4) Louise Contat.

5) Louise-Francoise de Bourbon.
Personal & Family Background:  Louis was the son of King Louis XV of France and Francoise de Chalus, Duchesse de Narbonne-Lara.

Spouse & Offspring:  He married, in 1782, Marie Adelaide de Montholon.  "In 1782, and in his 27th year, Narbonne married Mademoiselle de Montholon, daughter of the first president of Rouen, who inherited an immense fortune through her mother, in San Domingo, and an income of 300,000 livres, which in a few years, partly owing to the colonial policy of the Revolution and partly to other circumstances, was entirely lost.  At the time of her marriage the young girl was only fourteen years old.  She presented her husband with two daughters, and died at Macon at the age of eighteen...."  (Blennerhassett, 2013, pp.14-15)

Achievements & Honours:  Brigadier-General (1791); Minister of War (1791-1792); Governor of Raab; Governor of Trieste; Minister to Bavaria; Aide-de-Camp to the Emperor; Ambassador to Vienna (1813).  (Talleyrand-Perigord, 1891, p. 27)
Louis Phelypeaux
Comte de Saint-Florentin
(1705-1777)
Marquis of La Vrilliere 1725
Duke of La Vrilliere 1770.
Son of:
Louis Phelypeaux
Marquis de La Vrilliere
& Francoise de Mailly-Nesle.
Husband of:
Amelie Ernestine de Platen
(d. 1752)
daughter of
Ernst August
Count of Platen.
mar 1724
[Bio2]
His lover was:
Marie-Madeleine de Cusack
Marquise de Langeac.
(1725-1778)
French aristocrat
Louise d'Esparbes de Lussan
Comtesse de Polastron 

Louise d'Esparbes de Lussan
Comtesse de Polastron.
(1764-1804)
a.k.a. Born Louise-Auguste-Elisabeth-Marie-Colette de Montmorency.

Wife of:
Joseph-Marie de Lorraine
Prince de Vaudemont.
(married in 1778)
[Bio2:talleyrand.org]

Her lovers were:
1) Charles X de France.
Charles-Maurice de Talleyrand-Perigord
1st Duca di Benavento
Comte de Talleyrand-Perigord.

a.k.a.
Prince of Diplomats
Old Talley.
"She emigrates in 1791, settles down in Altona, near Hamburg... It is not excluded that, on her way bacl from exile in America, via Hamburg, Talleyrand meets her. Under the Consulate and the Empire Madame de Vaudemont is often seen in the salons, especially the one on rue de Bac and she has her own in Suresnes. The meetings with the Prince of Benevent are more and more frequent, each time more familiar and more confident." (talleyrand.org)
Louise-Anne de Bourbon
Comtesse de Charolais
Her lovers were:
Armand de Vignerot du Plessis
3rd Duc de Richelieu
a.k.a. Mademoiselle de Charolais.
Lover in 1718.
"Rulhiere declares that at the time when Richelieu crossed her path, Mlle. de Charolais's heart was 'still in its first innocence,' but, according to other writers, the young lady was already 'experimentele.' However that may be, it is certain that she soon conceived for Richelieu a most violent passion, to which the duke, whose senses were pleased by her beauty, and whose vanity was naturally flattered by the preference of a Princess of the Blood, was not slow to respond, and that before the end of the year 1715, thanks to the facilities afforded them by a complaisant waiting-woman of Her Highness, she had become her mistress." (The Fascinating Duc de Richelieu, Louis Francous Armand du Plessis (1696-1788):25)

 2) Emanuel Franz Joseph
Graf von Bayern.

Louise-Julie-Constance de Rohan
Comtesse de Brionne

Louise-Julie-Constance de Rohan
Comtesse de Brionne.
(1734-?)

a.k.a. Madame de Brionne.

Wife of:
Charles-Louise de Lorraine, Comte de Brionne
(married in 1748)
[Ref1]

Her lovers were:
1) Etienne-Francois de Choiseul.

 2) Louis de Rohan.
a.k.a. Cardinal de Rohan.

" . . . Known for her beauty, she became the mistress of her cousin, the future Cardinal de Rohan. . . . " (Goodman, 2003, p. 177)
Marc-Pierre de Voyer de Paulmy
Comte d'Argenson
(1696-1764)
French politician.
Lieutenant General of Police 1720
Chancellor of the Duke of Orleans 1723
Minister of State 1742
Secretary of State for War 1743.
[Pix1]
[Pix2]

Son of:
1st Marquis d'Argenson.

Husband of:
Anne Larcher.

His lover was:
Elisabeth-Catherine-Huguet de Semonville
Comtesse d'Estrades.

Marie-Anne-Florence Bernardy-Nones.
(1766-1818)

a.k.a. Fleury d'Ellignies; Mademoiselle Fleury.

Wife of:

Her lover was:
Lover in 1788

Marie-Anne-Louise
Baroness Roll von Emmenholtz.
(d.1825)

Her lover was:
Casanova.

 Marie-Anne Raime.

Her lover was:
Charles-Guillaume Lenormand d'Etioles.
(1805-1876)
Vicomtesse de Flavigny
Comtesse d'Agoult.

a.k.a. 
nee Marie Catherine Sophie, Vicomtesse de Flavigny
Daniel Stern (pen name)
Marie de Flavigny, Comtesse d'Agoult.

Daughter of:
Alexander Victor Francois de Flavigny
an emigre French aristocrat, & 
Maria Elisabeth Bethmann
a German banker's daughter.

Wife of:
Charles Louis Constant d'Agoult
Comte d'Agoult
(1790-1875)
(married in 1827, divorced in 1835)

Natural offspring:
Francesca Gaetana Cosima Liszt.
Lover in 1833-1844

Her lovers were:

(1797-1873)
a.k.a. Alfred Victor, Comte de Vigny.
French aristocrat, Romantic poet & novelist.
Authored Cinq-Mars (1826), Poemes antiques.

2) Franz Liszt.
" . . . The Comtesse was the mistress of Liszt and mother of their three children. The relationship lasted for a decade from 1834 . . . ." (Liszt & Short, 2003, p. 5)

(1837-1890)

Daughter of: 
Michel-Gabriel-Alphonse-Ferdinand de Riquet, Prince de Chimay
and Rosalie de Riquet de Caraman

Wife of:
Eugene-Arnould-Henri-Charles-Francois-Marie,
Comte de Mercy-Argenteau
(married in 1860).

Her lovers were:
(1811-1886)
Hungarian virtuoso pianist, composer & arranger.
Marie-Madeleine
Comtesse de La Fayette
(1634-1693)
French writer.
Maid-of-Honour to Anne of Austria, Queen of France (1650)
Author of La Princesse de Cleves.

a.k.a. Madame La Fayette.

Daughter of:
Marc Pioche de la Vergne.

Wife of:
Francois Motier, Comte de La Fayerre.
(married in 1655)
Her lover was:

Marie-Therese Trinidad Brocheton
Comtesse de La Beraudiere.
(1872-1958)

Her lover was:
Henri Charles, Comte de Greffuhle.
"La Beraudiere, Marie Therese Trinidad Brocheton, Comtesse de – (1872 – 1958), French salonniere and literary figure. Madame de La Beraudiere was a friend of the famous novelist, Marcel Proust, and she was the mistress of the wealthy Henri Charles, Comte de Greffuhle (1845 – 1932). Madame de La Beraudiere was the model for Proust’s character Odette, the mistress of the Duc de Guermantes in his series of novels A La Recherche du temps perdu (In Search of Lost Time)." (Women of History - L)

Mathilde-Marie Ruinart de Brimont
Comtesse Vallier de la Tour.

a.k.a. Mathilde-Marie de La Tour.

Her lover was:
Count Gobineau.
"She was the mistress of Count of Gobineau until his death in 1882." (Barman, p. 480).
Pauline de Montmorin de Saint-Herem
Comtesse de Beaumont

(1768-1803)

a.k.a. Pauline de Beaumont.
[Ref1]

Her lover was:
Francois-Rene, Vicomte de Chateaubriand
Francois-Rene, Vicomte de Chateaubriand

His lovers were:
1) Octavia Guichard.

2) Marie-Madeleine-Josephe-Aglae de Cusack
Marquise de Langeac.
"The chevalier d'Arc was the favoured lover of madame de Langeac, formerly madame Subrelin.  The duc de la Vrilliere was well aware of their reciprocal attachment, which did not give him the slightest uneasiness; he certainly was the silliest or the vilest of men, receiving the chevalier d'Arc at his house, and appearing at all the fetes he gave...."  (Lamothe-Langon, 1830, p. 33)
Philippe Auguste was the son of Louis Alexandre de Sainte-Foy and Madeleine Aumont.
Sophie, Comtesse d'Houdetot 

(1730-1813)

a.k.a.
Elisabeth-Francoise-Sophie Lalive de Bellegarde
Sophie d'Houdetot.

Her lovers were:
1) Jean-Francois de Saint-Lambert.
Lover in 1752.

2) Jean-Jacques Rousseau.
French aristocrat.

a.k.a. Therese de Clermont d'Amboise.

Daughter of:
Jacques-Louis-Georges de Clermont d'Amboise
Marquis de Teynel
& Marie-Henriette Racine du Junquoy.

Wife of:
Jacques-Philippe de Choiseul
Comte de Stainville
(married in 1761)

Her lovers were:
1) Armand-Louis de Gontaut
Duc de Lauzun.
Her husband's cousin:

 2) Charles-Leopold de Chezelles
Marquis de Jaucourt.

 3) Clairval.
a.k.a. Jean-Baptiste Guignard.
Actor & singer.

 4) Etienne-Francois, Duc de Choiseul.
Her husband's brother

Spouse & Offspring: She married, in 1761, Jacques-Philippe de Choiseul, Comte de Stainville, by whom she had two daughters, Marie-Stephanie de Choiseul-Stainville (1763-?) and Francoise-Therese de Choiseul-Stainville (1766-1794), the first wife of Joseph Grimaldi, Prince of Monaco. [Fam1] [Ref1]
Waleran III de Luxembourg
Comte de Ligny

(1355-1415)

Son of:
Guy de Luxembourg
Comte de St. Pol
Comte de Roussy
Comte de Fiennes
& Mahaut de Chatillon
Comtesse de St. Pol.
Husband of:
1. Maud Holland of Kent
(d. 1392)
mar 1380
2. Bonne de Bar
(d. 1400)
mar 1392.

His lovers were:
1) Agnes de Brie.

Natural Offspring:
Jean dit Hennequin de Luxemburg
batard de St. Pol, Seigneur de Hautbourdin
(d.1471).

2) Marie de Lausiere.

Natural Offspring:
Simon de Luxembourg, batard de St. Pol.
at

No comments:

Post a Comment

Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom)