The Duke of Choiseul is a title in the Peerage of France, created twice for the benefit of members of the House of Choiseul; three other duchies (Amboise, Praslin, Stainville) are also commonly associated with the name of Choiseul.
The Duke of Choiseul is a title in the Peerage of France, created twice for the benefit of members of the House of Choiseul; three other duchies (Amboise, Praslin, Stainville) are also commonly associated with the name of Choiseul.
Duchy-peerage created in 1665 from the lordships of Polisy, Polisot, Buzeuil, Fols, Bourguignons and dependencies for Marshal César de Choiseul, Count of Plessis-Praslin (the Plessis-Praslins form a cadet branch of the Choiseul-Praslins, themselves a cadet branch of the Choiseul-Chevignys noted below), a general in the service of Louis XIV. [1]
Duchy-peerage created in 1758 for Étienne François de Choiseul-Beaupré, Count of Stainville, Marquis of Estainville and of La Bourdaisière, famous minister of Louis XV, distant cousin of the Dukes of Choiseul and Counts of Plessis-Praslin mentioned above. When the Duke died without an heir in 1785, the duchy became extinct. [2] [3]
In 1786, Jacques Philippe de Choiseul, Marshal of France, younger brother of Étienne François, was made Duke of Choiseul-Stainville "with patent".
Duchy-peerage created in 1762 for César Gabriel de Choiseul, Count of Chevigny. The seat of the duchy was at Montgauger, then at Vaux-le-Vicomte in 1764 (then called Vaux-Praslin; the name of Praslin evokes a fief of the Choiseul marquis of Praslin, who constituted a cadet branch of the Choiseul-Chevigny; a cadet branch of the Choiseul-Chevigny was that of the Plessis-Praslin, first Dukes of Choiseul above; the elder branch, that of the Counts of Chevigny, took the name of its cadet branch to title its duchy: Praslin; the Chevigny were a younger branch of the Choiseul d'Aigremont, of which an elder branch, that of the Choiseul-Beaupré, was represented by the minister of Louis XV below. [4]
Duchy-peerage created in 1764 from the barony of Amboise, lands, fiefs and baronies annexed for the minister of Louis XV, already Duke of Choiseul-Stainville. Like the Duchy of Stainville, it died out on the death of its holder in 1785. [5]
Duchy-peerage created in 1787 on the lands of Pesmes (Haute-Saône, former marquisate of La Baume-Montrevel) by King Louis XVI in favor of Claude de Choiseul-Beaupré, cousin and husband of the niece of the minister Duke of Choiseul-Stainville and Amboise above, who made Claude his adopted son and heir for the county of Stainville. This Duke of Choiseul was a member of the Chamber of Peers under the French Restoration and the July Monarchy: Duke and hereditary peer (letters patent of 20 December 1814, without additional charge). [6]
The transmission of the ducal title to his son-in-law, Philippe-Gabriel de Marmier, 1st Duke of Marmier, was authorized by royal decree of 15 May 1818. It took effect by letters patent of 30 March 1839 (under the name of Duke of Marmier), but without the peerage, the hereditary nature of the peerage having been abolished. [6]
The Château d'Amboise is a château in Amboise, located in the Indre-et-Loire département of the Loire Valley in France. Confiscated by the monarchy in the 15th century, it became a favoured royal residence and was extensively rebuilt. King Charles VIII died at the château in 1498 after hitting his head on a door lintel. The château fell into decline from the second half of the 16th century and the majority of the interior buildings were later demolished, but some survived and have been restored, along with the outer defensive circuit of towers and walls. It has been recognised as a monument historique by the French Ministry of Culture since 1840.
Étienne François, marquis de Stainville, duc de Choiseul, KOHS, OGF was a French military officer, diplomat and statesman. From 1758 to 1761 and from 1766 to 1770, he was Foreign Minister of France and had a strong influence on France's global strategy throughout the period. He is closely associated with France's defeat in the Seven Years' War and subsequent successful efforts to rebuild French prestige.
Choiseul may refer to:
César de Choiseul, 1st Duke of Choiseul, comte du Plessis-Praslin was a Marshal of France and French diplomat, generally known for the best part of his life as the Maréchal (Marshal) du Plessis-Praslin.
Marshal of France is a French military distinction, rather than a military rank, that is awarded to generals for exceptional achievements. The title has been awarded since 1185, though briefly abolished (1793–1804) and for a period dormant (1870–1916). It was one of the Great Officers of the Crown of France during the Ancien Régime and Bourbon Restoration, and one of the Grand Dignitaries of the Empire during the First French Empire.
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Claude Antoine Gabriel de Choiseul, Duke of Choiseul was a French soldier and émigré Royalist.
César Gabriel de Choiseul, Duke of Praslin was a French officer, diplomat and statesman.
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Charles de Choiseul, Duke of Praslin was a French nobleman and politician, who served as a member of the Chamber of Deputies in 1838–1842. Choiseul-Praslin's suicide, occurring while he faced trial for the murder of his wife, the Duchess de Choiseul-Praslin, caused a scandal which in turn contributed to the outbreak of the 1848 Revolution and the fall of the July Monarchy.
The House of Choiseul is a French noble family of chivalric extraction, first mentioned in 1060. Originally from Champagne, its cradle is the village of Choiseul. An illustrious house, its members held prominent political, ecclesiastical and military positions within the Kingdom of France. The Choiseul family is one of the oldest French families still in existence, having been identified among the families surviving into the 21st century who have been able to prove their filiation in the male line, both natural and legitimate, without interruption back to a first ancestor attested by a deed dating from before 1250.
When the Viking chieftain Rollo obtained the territories via the Treaty of Saint-Clair-sur-Epte which would later make up Normandy, he distributed them as estates among his main supporters. Among these lands were the seigneurie of Harcourt, near Brionne, and the county of Pont-Audemer, both of which Rollo granted to Bernard the Dane, ancestor of the lords (seigneurs) of Harcourt. he first to use Harcourt as a name, however, was Anquetil d'Harcourt at the start of the 11th century.
Ancient Rome is a trio of almost identical paintings by Italian artist Giovanni Paolo Panini, produced as pendant paintings to Modern Rome for his patron, the comte de Stainville, in the 1750s.
Jacques Philippe de Choiseul, Duke of Stainville was a French Marshal of France, general and nobleman. He became count and then in 1786 duke of Stainville and baron of Dommanges.
Charles Just François-Victurnien de Beauvau-Craon, 4th Prince of Beauvau was a 19th-century French senator and army officer. Though also Prince of Craon he was better known as the Prince of Beauvau.
Augustine Françoise de Choiseul, also known as Mademoiselle St Cyr and Mademoiselle de Choiseul, was a French aristocrat. She was the subject of a long going legitimization process to determine her biological parentage, which created great attention.
The Hôtel de Crozat, later the Hôtel de Choiseul, was a Parisian hôtel particulier, constructed in 1704 to the designs of the French architect Jean-Sylvain Cartaud for the rich banker and art collector Pierre Crozat. It was located on the west side of the rue de Richelieu, south of its intersection with the Grand Boulevard. The Duke of Choiseul acquired the hôtel in 1750. It was demolished in 1780, the property subdivided, and a theatre, the Salle Favart, constructed in the former garden.
Charlotte Rosalie de Choiseul-Beaupré née de Romanet (1733–1753), was a French courtier, mistress to Louis XV of France in 1752. She was the king's Petite maîtresse, not his Maîtresse-en-titre.
The land of Lorges, located in Lorges (Loir-et-Cher) in the Canton of La Beauce, was, under the Ancien régime, a seigneury then a county and a duchy, having belonged to the Montgomery family then to the House of Durfort.