Marquis de Contades

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Marquis de Contades (Script error: No such module "IPA"., Template:Lit) was a title created for the Contades family, which had first been ennobled in 1619.[1]

History

The Contades family is a French noble family, originally from Béarn, which settled in Narbonne in the fifteenth century, before settling in the Duchy of Anjou around 1600.[2] The family was first ennobled as Lord de La Roche-Thibault in 1619.[1] The family was further elevated when General Louis Georges Érasme de Contades was made Marquis de Contades.[1]

Members of the Contades family

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Louis Georges Érasme de Contades
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Portrait of Valentine de Contades (later Duchess of Chevreuse), by René Théodore Berthon

Excerpt of some family members:[2]

  • André de Contades (1572–c.Template:TrimScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".), Lord de La Roche-Thibault and officer of the King's Guards; married (1) Françoise de Conygham (maid of honor to Anne of Austria) and (2) Charlotte de Gandillaud de Fontfroide (lady-in-waiting to Anne of Austria)
    • Érasmus de Contades (1633–1712), Lord de La Roche-Thibault
      • Georges Gaspard de Contades (1666–1735), Lieutenant General of the King's Armies
        • Érasmus de Contades (1699–1734), killed at Siege of Philippsburg
        • Louis Georges Érasme de Contades, Marquis de Contades (1704–1795), Marshal of France
          • Georges-Gaspard de Contades, Marquis de Contades (1726–1794), a member of the Académie des Sciences
            • Erasmus-Gaspard de Contades, Marquis de Contades (1758–1834), president of the General Council of Indre-et-Loire, peer of France
              • Gaspard de Contades, Marquis de Contades (1785–1817)
              • Méry de Contades, Marquis de Contades (1786–1869), auditor at the Council of State, prefect at Clermont
                • Léon de Contades, Marquis de Contades (1818–1900)
                • Ernest de Contades, Marquis de Contades (1822–1901), mayor of Louresse
                  • Louis de Contades, Marquis de Contades (1862–1949)
                    • Arnaud de Contades, Marquis de Contades (1907–1975), banker[3]
                      • Arnold de Contades, Marquis de Contades (1933–2018)[4][5]
                        • Arnaud Emmanuel, Marquis de Contades (b. 1969)
                      • Anne d'Ornano (Template:Nee de Contades) (b. 1936), politician
              • Françoise de Contades (1789–1847), married Count Armand d'Anthenaise
              • Erasme de Contades (1790–1813), aide de campe to General Lauriston
            • Louis Gabriel de Contades, Marquis de Contades-Gizeux (1759–1825), Baron of the Empire
            • François-Jules de Contades, Viscount de Contades (1760–1811), known as the Chevalier de Contades.
              • Jules de Contades, Viscount de Contades (1794–1861), cavalry officer
            • Victoire de Contades (1762–1841), who married Paul Marie Céleste d'Andigné, Count de Sainte-Gemme and Marquis d'Andigné

See also

References

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