Gramont family

Gramont is the name of an old French noble family, whose name is connected to the castle of Gramont (Agramont in Spanish) Basque province of Lower Navarre, France.[1]

Key representatives
  • Antoine III de Gramont (1604–1678), Military officer and diplomat, with the title Maréchal de France (1641).
  • Catherine-Charlotte de Gramont (1639–1678), princesse de Monaco and mistress of Louis XIV, daughter of the previous.
  • Antoine V de Gramont (1671–1725), duc de Gramont (also named duc de Guiche), Maréchal de France (1724), grandson of the first.
  • Louis of Gramont (1689–1745), defeated in the Battle of Dettingen and killed in the Battle of Fontenoy, son of Antoine V.
  • Eugénie de Gramont (1788–1846), religious figure, granddaughter of Antoine Adrien, comte de Gramont (1726–1762).
  • Antoine-Geneviève-Héraclius-Agénor de Gramont (1789–1854), duc de Gramont, court figure with close relations to the Bourbons, great-great-grandson of Antoine V.
  • Agenor, duc de Gramont(1819–1880), duke of Gramont and prince of Bidache, French diplomat and statesman, son of the previous.
  • Louis de Gramont (1854–1912), son of Ferdinand, French dramatist and librettist.
  • Louis-René Alexandre de Gramont (1883–1963), comte de Gramont, son of Agénor de Gramont (1851–1925), Commandeur de la Légion d'honneur and Croix de guerre 1914-1918.
  • Philipppe Agénor Marie Antoine de Gramont (1917–1940) son of Louis-René de Gramont, comte de Gramont, Chevalier de la Légion d'honneur.
  • Marguerite Corisande Alexandrine Marie de Gramont (1920–1998) baronne Philippe de Gunzbourg, daughter of comte de Gramont, Officier of Légion d'honneur and Croix de guerre.
  • René Armand Antoine de Gramont (1927–2004) son of Louis-René de Gramont, comte de Gramont.
  • François Marie Louis Antoine de Gramont (1931–1955) son of Louis-René de Gramont, comte de Gramont.
  • Gabriel Antoine Armand, Comte de Gramont (1908–1943), a hero of the French Resistance, grandson of Agénor de Gramont (1819–1880) duc de Gramont and prince de Bidache.
  • Sanche de Gramont (1932- ), son of the previous, gave up his titles and became a naturalized citizen of the United States under the name Ted Morgan.
  • Arnaud François Louis Victurnien de Gramont (1960 - ) son of comte René de Gramont (1927–2004), photographer.

See also
  • Duc de Gramont

Bibliography
  • Jean de Jaurgain and Raymond Ritter, La maison de Gramont 1040-1967, Les amis du musée pyrénéen, Tarbes (two volumes) (in French)
  • Lewis, Warren Hamilton (1958), Assault on Olympus - The rise of the House of Gramont between 1604 and 1678, New York: Harcourt, Brace & Co

References
  1. Precisely on the territory of what is now the French commune of Bergouey-Viellenave, see Jaurgain and Ritter, volume 1, p. 5-7
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