Charles Marie d'Albert de Luynes

The Duke of Luynes, Chevreuse and Chaulnes
Coat of Arms of the Duke
Member of the
Chamber of Peers
In office
1814–1815, 1815–1830
MonarchsLouis XVIII
Charles X
Personal details
Born
Charles Marie Paul André d'Albert de Luynes

(1783-10-16)16 October 1783
Died20 March 1839(1839-03-20) (aged 55)
Spouse
Françoise du Pelet de Narbonne-Fritzlar
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(m. 1800; died 1813)​
ChildrenHonoré Théodoric d'Albert de Luynes
Parent(s)Louis Joseph d'Albert de Luynes
Guionne Élisabeth Joséphine de Montmorency-Laval

Charles Marie Paul André d'Albert, 7th Duke of Luynes (16 October 1783 – 20 March 1839) was a French aristocrat and politician.

Early life

He was the only son of Louis Joseph d'Albert de Luynes, 6th Duke of Luynes, and Guionne Élisabeth Joséphine de Montmorency-Laval (1755–1830), a Dame du Palais of Queen Marie Antoinette (wife of Louis XVI). His sister was Pauline Hortense d'Albert de Luynes (wife of their cousin, Mathieu de Montmorency, 1st Duke of Montmorency-Laval).[1]

His maternal grandfather was Guy André Pierre de Montmorency-Laval, 1st Duke of Laval. His paternal grandparents were Charles Louis d'Albert, 5th Duke of Luynes, and Henriette Nicole d'Egmont-Pignatelli. Among his extended family were his aunt, Marie Paule Angélique d'Albert (who married Louis Joseph d'Albert d'Ailly, 7th Duke of Chaulnes), and his niece (through his sister Pauline), Elisabeth-Hélène-Pierre de Montmorency Laval (wife of Sosthènes I de La Rochefoucauld, 2nd Duke of Doudeauville).[2]

Career

In 1792, upon the death of Louis Joseph d'Albert, 6th Duke of Chaulnes (and Duke of Picquigny), he inherited the dukedom of Chaulnes, from a distant cousin of a cadet branch of the d'Albert family, becoming the 7th Duke of Chaulnes.[a] Upon the death of his father in 1807, he inherited the dukedoms of Luynes and Chevreuse[b]

During the First Restoration, he was a member of the Chamber of Peers, serving from 1814 to 1815, then again from 1815 to 1817. He was Duke-Peer of France from 1817 to 1830, under the Second Bourbon Restoration.[6]

Personal life

Photograph of his son, Honoré, by Louis-Auguste Bisson, c. 1860

On 24 February 1800, he Duke married Françoise Marie Félicité Ermesinde du Pelet de Narbonne-Fritzlar (1785–1813), a daughter of Count Francois-Bernard de Narbonne de Pelet and Adelaide Le Contede Nonant de Pierrecourt.[7][8] Marie served as a Dame du Palais to Empress Joséphine (wife of Napoleon) before her premature death in Lyon in 1813. Together, they were the parents of:[9]

The Duke died on 20 March 1839 and was succeeded in his dukedoms by his son, Honoré, who used the Duke of Luynes title and the Duke of Chaulnes as a courtesy title.[6]

Notes

  1. ^ The dukedom of Chaulnes had been created in 1621 for Honoré d'Albert (1581–1649), younger brother to Charles d'Albert, 1st Duke of Luynes.[3] Louis Joseph d'Albert, 6th Duke of Chaulnes (1741–1792), and Charles Marie d'Albert de Luynes, were both direct descendants of Charles Honoré d'Albert, 3rd Duke of Luynes (with Louis Joseph being descended from the 3rd Duke's younger son, Louis Auguste d'Albert, 4th Duke of Chaulnes (1678–1744), and Charles Marie being descended from the 3rd Duke's eldest surviving son, Honoré Charles d'Albert de Luynes (1669–1704)).
  2. ^ Today, the Duke of Chaulnes title is carried today as a courtesy title by a younger brother of the penultimate Duke of Luynes.[4][5]

References

  1. ^ Courcelles, Jean Baptiste Pierre Jullien de (1822). Histoire généalogique et héraldique des pairs de France: des grands dignitaires de la couronne, des principales familles nobles du royaume et des maisons princières de l'Europe, précédée de la généalogie de la maison de France (in French). L'auteur. p. 31. Retrieved 20 June 2024.
  2. ^ Annuaire de la noblesse de France et des maisons souveraines de l'Europe (in French). Champion. 1867. p. 101. Retrieved 17 June 2024.
  3. ^ Chisholm 1911, p. 147.
  4. ^ Montgomery-Massingberd, Hugh (1977). Burke's Royal Families of the World. Burke's Peerage. p. 124. ISBN 978-0-85011-023-4. Retrieved 9 November 2020.
  5. ^ Vallejos, Soledad (2015). Vida de ricos: Costumbres y manías de argentinos con dinero (in Spanish). Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial Argentina. p. 52. ISBN 978-987-735-023-4. Retrieved 9 November 2020.
  6. ^ a b Louis Dussieux; Eudoxe Soulié, eds. (1860–1865). Mémoires du duc de Luynes sur la cour de Louis XV (1735–1758). Paris: Firmin-Didot frères.
  7. ^ Histoire de la Maison royale de France (in French). 1879. p. 701. Retrieved 20 June 2024.
  8. ^ l'Orne, Société historique et archéologique de (1892). Bulletin de la Société historique et archéologique de l'Orne (in French). p. 249. Retrieved 20 June 2024.
  9. ^ a b Spangler, Jonathan (20 June 2022). "Dukes of Luynes, Chaulnes and Chevreuse". dukesandprinces.org. Retrieved 13 April 2023.

Sources

French nobility
Preceded by Duke of Luynes
1807–1839 		Succeeded by
Duke of Chevreuse
1807–1839
Preceded by Duke of Chaulnes
1792–1839