Charles Louis Bretagne de La Trémoille

Charles Louis Bretagne de La Trémoille (15 March 1683 – 9 October 1719), 6th duke of Thouars, was the son of Charles Belgique Hollande de La Trémoille and Madeleine de Créquy, daughter and heiress of Charles III de Créquy.

Charles Louis Bretagne de la Tremoille (1683-1719)

He became duke of Thouars upon his father's death in 1709. He was also count of Laval and Montfort and inherited the ancient French claim to the Kingdom of Naples. The Neapolitan claim gave the family the rank of princes étrangers at the French court.[1] The Duke made a career in the military as well as at Versailles: he was brigadier of cavalry (January 1709), first gentleman of the King's chamber (June 1709), governor of Thouars (July 1709), and Maréchal de camp (February 1719).

His sister Marie Armande Victoire de La Trémoille married Emmanuel Théodose de La Tour d'Auvergne.

On 13 April 1706 he married Marie-Madeleine Motier de La Fayette (1691–1717), the daughter of Rene-Armand, marquis de La Fayette and Marie-Madeleine de Marillac, and granddaughter of the author Marie-Madeleine Pioche de la Vergne, comtesse de la Fayette. They had one child, Charles Armand René de La Trémoille, born in 1708.

Ancestry

Ancestors of Charles Louis Bretagne de La Trémoille

16. Claude de La Trémoille 8. Henri de La Trémoille 17. Countess Charlotte Brabantina of Nassau 4. Henri Charles de La Trémoille 18. Henri de La Tour d'Auvergne 9. Marie de La Tour d'Auvergne 19. Countess Elisabeth of Nassau 2. Charles Belgique Hollande de La Trémoille 20. Maurice, Landgrave of Hesse-Kassel 10. William V, Landgrave of Hesse-Kassel 21. Countess Agnes of Solms-Laubach 5. Émilie of Hesse-Kassel 22. Philip Louis II of Hanau-Münzenberg 11. Countess Amalie Elisabeth of Hanau-Münzenberg 23. Countess Catharina Belgica of Nassau 1. Charles Louis Bretagne de La Trémoille 24. Charles I de Blanchefort, Marquis de Créquy, Prince de Poix, Duc de Lesdiguières 12. Charles II de Créquy, seigneur de Canaple 25. Madeleine de Bonne de Lesdiguières 6. Charles de Créquy, Duke of Créquy 26. Claude du Roure, seigneur of Bonneval 13. Anne de Grimoard of Beauvoir du Roure 27. Marie d'Albert de Luynes 3. Madeleine de Créquy 28. Artus of Saint-Gelais, Marquis of Lansac, seigneur of Azay-le-Rideau 14. Gilles de Saint Gelais, marquis de Lansac, marquis de Ballon 29. Françoise de Souvré, governess of Louis XIV 7. Armande de St.Gelais-Lansac 30. Gabriel de la Vallée des Fossés, marquis d'Everly 15. Marie de la Vallee-Fossez, marquise d'Everly 31. Madeleine du Val de Fontenay

References

1. Spanheim, Ézéchiel (1973). Émile Bourgeois (ed.). Relation de la Cour de France. le Temps retrouvé (in French). Paris: Mercure de France. pp. 121, 344–345.

Sources

• Georges Paul, Dr Pierre Balme et Marie-Louise Le Verrier, Une grande famille d'Auvergne Les Motier de La Fayette, imprimerie de Bussac, parution en 1951.
• "The Illustrious family of Crequy".
•  This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Créquy". Encyclopædia Britannica. 7 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. pp. 410–411. Endnote:
  • For a detailed genealogy of the family and its alliances see Louis Moréri, Dictionnaire historique: Annuaire de la noblesse française (1856 and 1867).