Family
His father, Jean-Charles de Saint-Nectaire (1608-1696), styled comte de Brinon (who was the third son of Jacques de Saint-Nectaire, baron de La Grolière), married in 1654 Marguérite (died 1701), sole heiress of Timoléon de Boves, baron de Contenant; of their five children, two survived childhood: Henri, who inherited his father's ancestral titles and his sister Madeleine, who married Pierre-Gilbert Colbert, marquis de Villacerf. [2]
Upon his death in 1746, he was succeeded by his cousin, Jean-Charles, as marquis de Saint-Nectaire. [3]
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