List of knights of the Order of the Holy Spirit

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The list of the knights of the Order of the Holy Spirit presents the chronological list of knights and commanders of the most important French Order of the Holy Spirit, established by Henry III (1578), abolished under the French Revolution (1791), re-established under the Restoration (1814), abolished in turn by the July Monarchy (1830).

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Under Henry III

Henri III presiding the first ceremony of the Order of the Holy Spirit on 31 December 1578 : reception of Louis Gonzaga, Duke of Nevers, anonymous, Musee du Louvre. Henri III presidant la premiere ceremonie de l'ordre du Saint Esprit.jpg
Henri III presiding the first ceremony of the Order of the Holy Spirit on 31 December 1578 : reception of Louis Gonzaga, Duke of Nevers, anonymous, Musée du Louvre.

Henry III was the founder of the order, First sovereign chief of the order.

First promotion (31 December 1578)

Second promotion (21 December 1579)

Third promotion (21 December 1580)

Fourth promotion (21 December 1581)

Fifth promotion (21 December 1582)

Sixth promotion (21 December 1583)

Seventh promotion (21 December 1584)

Eighth promotion (21 December 1585)

Ninth promotion (21 December 1586)

Tenth promotion (21 December 1587)

During the reign of Henry III, Knights and commanders appointed without having been received

Several eminent personages were appointed Knight or Commander of the Order of the Holy Spirit during the reign of Henry III, without having been received, and therefore they cannot be counted as members of the order. However, as proof of their appointments exists either in the archives of the order itself, or in the genealogies of the great officers of the crown, it seemed necessary to recall their names.

Year 1578

Year 1580

  • Knights :
    • Charles de Vendôme de Rubempré, governor of Rue.
    • Jean de Pontevés, baron de Cotignac, grand sénéchal and admiral of Provence.
    • Jean de Rieux, marquis d'Asserac.

Year 1582

  • Knight:
    • Charles de Belleville, comte de Cosnac, lieutenant général in Saintonge.

Year 1584

  • Knights:
    • Jean Louis de La Rochefoucauld, comte de Randan.
    • Charles de Mouy, seigneur de la Meilleraye, vice-admiral of France.

Year 1585

  • Knights:
    • Michel de Castelnau, seigneur de Mauvissère, ambassador in England, governor of Saint-Dizier.
    • Hector Renaud de Durfort, comte Launac.
    • François de Brailly, seigneur de Mainvilliers.

Year 1587

  • Knight:
    • Christophe, baron de Bassompierre.

Year 1588

  • Commander :
  • Knights :
    • Philippe d'Angennes, seigneur de Fargis, governor of Maine.
    • René du Bellay, prince d'Yvetot.
    • Artus de Maillé, seigneur de Brézé, governor of Anjou.

Under Henri IV

Henri IV, second sovereign head of the order, did not receive the collar until his coronation, 28 February 1594, and during this interval made the most senior chevalier to preside in his place (it was Marshal de Biron, the father, who presided in the absence of the king).

First promotion (31 December 1591)

Second promotion (7 December 1595)

First promotion of the Order of the Holy Spirit held by Henry IV in the church of the Grands-Augustins Monastery in Paris (1595), Jean-Francois de Troy, 1732, Musee du Louvre. Troy - Premier chapitre de l'Ordre du Saint-Esprit tenu par Henri IV dans l'eglise du couvent des Grands-Augustins a Paris (1595).jpg
First promotion of the Order of the Holy Spirit held by Henry IV in the church of the Grands-Augustins Monastery in Paris (1595), Jean-François de Troy, 1732, Musée du Louvre.

Third promotion (5 January 1597)

Fourth promotion (2 January 1599)

Fifth promotion (1606)

Sixth promotion (12 March 1608)

During the reign of Henri IV, knights and commanders appointed and died without having been received

Year 1595

  • Anne d'Anglure, marquis de Givry
  • Michel d'Estourmel, seigneur de Guyencourt
  • Jean de Montluc, Marshal of France
  • Gaspard de Schomberg, colonel of the Reiters
  • Jean de Levis, seigneur de Mirepoix
  • Jean, marquis de Goetquen
  • Robert de Harlay
  • François de Senicourt

Year 1599

  • Sebastien marquis de Rosmadec

Year 1604

  • Henri de Noailles
  • Nicolas de Harlay
  • François de l'Isle
  • Jean-Paul d'Esparbès de Lussan
  • Bernard de Beon du Masses
  • Jean de Gontault
  • Jérôme de Gondi

Under Louis XIII

Louis XIII, third sovereign head of the order, received the collar on 18 October 1610, the day after his coronation.

First promotion (18 October 1610)

Second promotion (September 1618)

Third promotion (31 December 1619)

Fourth promotion (26 July 1622)

At the Grenoble cathedral.

Fifth promotion (28 June 1625)

At the chapel of Somerset House, London, on 28 June 1625.

Sixth promotion (24 March 1632)

Seventh promotion (14 may 1633)

At Fontainebleau.

Reception d'Henri II d'Orleans, Duc de Longueville, dans l'ordre du Saint-Esprit par le roi Louis XIII, le 15 mai 1633, Philippe de Champaigne (1602-1674), Musee des Augustins (Toulouse). Philippe de Champaigne - Reception d'Henri d'Orleans.jpg
Réception d'Henri II d'Orléans, Duc de Longueville, dans l'ordre du Saint-Esprit par le roi Louis XIII, le 15 mai 1633, Philippe de Champaigne (1602–1674), Musée des Augustins (Toulouse).

Eighth promotion (22 may 1642)

At camp before the city of Perpignan.

Knights appointed during the reign of Louis XIII, who died without having been received

1611

1612

1613

  • Armand-Léon de Durfort, seigneur de Born, lieutenant général of the artillery of France

1614

  • Antoine d'Authun, seigneur de la Baume, sénéchal of Lyon
  • Charles comte d'Escars, baron d'Aix

1615

  • Louis de Montbron, seigneur de Fontaines and Chalandray
  • César de Dizimieu, governor of the city and castle of Vienne
  • Étienne de Bonne, vicomte de Tallard

1616

  • Léon de Durfort
  • Louis de Gouffier, duc de Rouannois

1618

  • Emmanuel de Savoie, baron de Pressigny, sénéchal and governor of Châtellerault
  • Henri des Prez, seigneur de Montpezat
  • Charles de Balzac, bishop and comte de Noyon, pair of France
  • Claude de Joyeuse, comte de Grand-Pré

1619

  • Alexandre de Vieuxpont, marquis de Coëmur, vice-amiral of Bretagne
  • André d'Oraison
  • Jacques de Castille, baron de Castelnau
  • Claude-François de la Baume, comte de Mont-Revel
  • Henri de Balzac, seigneur de Clermont d'Entragues
  • Edme de Rochefort, marquis de la Boullaye, lieutenant général in Nivernois

1621

  • Jacques du Blé, marquis d'Uxelles.

1625

  • François de Savary, marquis de Maulevrier
  • François de L'Aubespine, baron de Hauterive

1626

  • Adrien de Montluc Montesquiou, prince de Chabannois, lieutenant général in pays de Foix

1629

  • César de Balzac d'Entragues, seigneur de Gré
  • Jean-Louis de Rochechouart, seigneur de Chandenier
  • Louis de Marillac, comte de Beaumont-le-Roger, Marshal of France

1633

  • Emmanuel-Philibert de la Beraudière
  • Jean Caylar d'Anduze de Saint-Bonnet, seigneur de Thoiras, Marshal of France
  • Charles de Levis, comte de Charlus
  • Entio, marquis de Bentivoglio
  • Georges de Brancas, duc de Villars, pair de France

Under Louis XIV

Louis XIV, known as 'the great', fourth head and sovereign Grand maître de l'Ordre, received the collar of l'Ordre the day after his coronation on 8 June 1654.

First promotion (Paris, 28 April 1653)

Second promotion (Reims, 8 June 1654)

Third promotion (Paris, 31 December 1661)

Fourth promotion (Paris, 4 November 1663)

Fifth promotion (12 December 1671)

Sixth promotion (Rome, 29 September 1675)

Seventh promotion (Saint-Germain-en-Laye, 22 December 1675)

Eighth promotion (Żółkiew, Poland, 30 November 1676)

Ninth promotion (Saint-Germain-en-Laye, 1 January 1682)

Tenth promotion (Versailles, 2 June 1686)

Eleventh promotion (Versailles, 31 December 1688)

Reception of the Knights of the Order of the Holy Spirit in the Chapel of Versailles on 1 January and 2 February 1689 Reception des chevaliers de l'ordre du Saint-Esprit dans la chapelle de Versailles les 1 janvier et 2 fevrier 1689.jpg
Reception of the Knights of the Order of the Holy Spirit in the Chapel of Versailles on 1 January and 2 February 1689

Twelfth promotion (Versailles, 29 May 1689)

Thirteenth promotion (Versailles, 2 February 1693)

Fourteenth promotion (Versailles, 2 February 1694)

Fifteenth promotion (Zhovkva, Russia, 13 April 1694)

Sixteenth promotion (Versailles, 22 May 1695)

Seventeenth promotion (Versailles, 1 January 1696)

Eighteenth promotion (Rome, 4 December 1696)

Nineteenth promotion (Versailles, 1 January 1698)

Twentieth promotion (Versailles, 2 February 1699)

Twenty first promotion (Versailles, 7 June 1699)

Twenty second promotion (Rome, 19 December 1700)

Twenty third promotion (Versailles, 15 May 1701)

Twenty fourth promotion (Versailles, 2 February 1703)

Twenty-fifth promotion (Versailles, 27 May 1703)

Twenty sixth promotion (Versailles, 1 January 1705)

Twenty seventh promotion (Versailles, 2 February 1705)

Twenty eighth promotion (Versailles, 1 March 1705)

Twenty ninth promotion (Versailles, 1 January 1709)

Thirtieth promotion (Versailles, 1 January 1711)

Thirty first promotion (Versailles, 2 December 1712)

Thirty second promotion (Versailles, 7 June 1713)

During the reign of Louis XIV, Knights named who died without being received

Year 1643

Year 1644

  • Giulio Cesare Colonna di Sciarra, II prince de Carbognano, duc de Bassanello
  • N. de Soyecourt, Marshal General of France

Year 1646

  • Rostaing Antoine d'Eure-du-Puis Saint-Martin, seigneur d'Aiguebonne
  • Antoine d'Estourmel, first Squire of Marguerite of Lorraine, Duchess of Orléans

Year 1648

Year 1649

  • N. marquis de Trans
  • Dominique Séguier, bishop of Meaux

Year 1650

  • N. marquis d'Hautefort
  • Claude Yves, marquis d'Allègre

Year 1651

  • Jacques de Mauvisière de Castelnau, marshal of France
  • Roger-Hector de Pardaillan, marquis d'Antin
  • Sébastien de Rosmadec, marquis de Molac
  • Louis Châlon du Blé, marquis d'Huxelles
  • Gabriel de Caumont, comte de Lauzun
  • François Sicaire, marquis de Bourdeilles
  • Charles-Antoine de Ferrières, marquis de Sauvebeuf
  • Jean-Pierre, marquis d'Aubeterre
  • Louis de Caillebot, marquis de la Salle
  • N. de Barrault
  • Isaac de Pas, marquis de Feuquières
  • François de Choiseul, marquis de Praslin
  • Louis Olivier, marquis de Leuville
  • N. d'Aumont
  • Henri Bourcier de Barry de Saint-Aulnès
  • François de Gontaut de Biron
  • Georges Isauré, marquis d'Hervaut
  • Philibert de Pompadour, marquis de Laurière
  • Jean de Lambert
  • Philippe, baron de Meillars.
  • Paul-Antoine de Cassagnet, marquis de Fimarcon
  • Charles de Monchy d'Hocquincourt, marshal of France

Year 1652

  • N. d'Hauterive
  • N. de Souillac de Maumeige
  • N. baron de Clairavault
  • Louis de Bridieu
  • Hilaire de Laval, marquis de Trèves
  • Achille de Harlay, marquis de Bréval-Chanvalon
  • François-Marie de Broglio de Revel
  • François de la Béraudière
  • Odet de Harcourt, comte de Croisy
  • N., marquis de Cauvisson
  • Armand-Jean Mitte, marquis de Saint-Chaumont
  • Nicolas Dauvet, comte Desmarêts, Grand fauconnier de France
  • Antoine-François de Lamet

Year 1653

  • N., marquis du Bec, comte de Moret
  • François, comte d'Estain

Year 1658

Year 1661

  • Abraham de Fabert d'Esternay, Marshal of France, Governor of Sedan, appointed Knight on the Orders of the King, but did not take advantage of this honor, "not being in a position to prove himself. The letter whose Majesty honored him on the invincibility of this obstacle manifests the greatness and goodness of the master and eternalizes the merit of the subject. " (Catalogue des Chevaliers de l'Ordre du Saint-Esprit, p. 306.)

Year 1703

Year 1708

Under Louis XV

The fifth head and sovereign Grand maître de l'Ordre du Saint-Esprit, Louis XV received the collar of l'Ordre the day after his coronation, at Reims, on 27 October 1722.

1st promotion (26 July 1717)

Proclaimed at Versailles, but reception done at Madrid :

2nd promotion (27 October 1722)

3rd promotion (3 June 1724, Versailles)

Nicolas Lancret (1690-1743), Presentation of the Order of the Holy Spirit in the Chapels of Versailles (3 June 1724), Musee du Louvre. La remise de l'Ordre du Saint-Esprit dans la chapelle de Versailles.jpg
Nicolas Lancret (1690–1743), Presentation of the Order of the Holy Spirit in the Chapels of Versailles (3 June 1724), Musée du Louvre.
Jean-Baptiste van Loo (1684-1745), Louis XV presenting the cord of the Order of the Holy Spirit to the Count of Clermont in the chapel of Versailles, 3 June 1724, Versailles. Van Loo - Louis XV remettant le cordon de l'ordre du Saint-Esprit au comte de Clermont dans la chapelle de Versailles, 3 juin 1724.jpg
Jean-Baptiste van Loo (1684–1745), Louis XV presenting the cord of the Order of the Holy Spirit to the Count of Clermont in the chapel of Versailles, 3 June 1724, Versailles.
Reception of the knights of the order of the Holy Spirit in the chapel of Versailles during the great promotion of 3 June 1724, Jacques Rigaud (ca. 1681-1754), Musee national des chateaux de Versailles et de Trianon. Reception des chevaliers de l'ordre du Saint-Esprit-1724.jpg
Reception of the knights of the order of the Holy Spirit in the chapel of Versailles during the great promotion of 3 June 1724, Jacques Rigaud (ca. 1681–1754), Musée national des châteaux de Versailles et de Trianon.

4th promotion (1 January 1725)

5th promotion (1 January 1726)

6th promotion (Versailles, 2 February 1728)

7th promotion (Versailles, 16 May 1728)

8th promotion (Versailles, 1 January 1729)

9th promotion (Seville, Spain, 25 April 1729)

10th promotion (Versailles, 2 February 1731)

11th promotion (Versailles, 13 May 1731)

12th promotion (Versailles, 1 January 1733)

13th promotion (Versailles, 24 May 1733)

14th promotion (Versailles, 1 January 1735)

15th promotion (Madrid, 22 March 1736)

16th promotion (Versailles, 20 May 1736)

17th promotion (Versailles, 2 February 1737)

18th promotion (Rome, 15 September 1737)

The Presentation of the Order of the Holy Spirit to Prince Vaini by the Duke of Saint-Aignan in the San Luigi dei Francesi church in Rome, 15 September 1737, Giovanni Paolo Pannini (1692-1765), around 1745, Musee des Beaux-Arts de Caen. Pannini - La Remise de l'ordre du Saint-Esprit au prince Vaini par le duc de Saint-Aignan en l'eglise Saint-Louis-des-Francais, le 15 septembre 1737.jpg
The Presentation of the Order of the Holy Spirit to Prince Vaini by the Duke of Saint-Aignan in the San Luigi dei Francesi church in Rome, 15 September 1737, Giovanni Paolo Pannini (1692–1765), around 1745, Musée des Beaux-Arts de Caen.

19th promotion (Versailles, 17 May 1739)

20th promotion (Versailles, 1 January 1740)

21st promotion (Versailles, 2 February 1740)

22nd promotion (Versailles, 5 June 1740)

23rd promotion (Versailles, 2 February 1741)

24th promotion (Versailles, 2 February 1742)

25th promotion (Fontainebleau, 13 May 1742)

26th promotion (Versailles, 1 January 1743)

27th promotion (Versailles, 2 June 1743)

28th promotion (Versailles, 1 January 1744)

29th promotion (Versailles, 6 January 1745)

30th promotion (Versailles, 2 February 1745)

31st promotion (Versailles, 1 January 1746)

32nd promotion (Versailles, 2 February 1746)

33rd promotion (Versailles, 1 January 1747)

34th promotion (Versailles, 1 January 1748)

35th promotion (Versailles, 2 February 1748)

36th promotion (Versailles, 1 January 1749)

37th promotion (Versailles, 2 February 1749)

38th promotion (Versailles, 25 May 1749)

39th promotion (Versailles, 17 May 1750)

40th promotion (Versailles, 2 February 1751)

41st promotion (Versailles, 2 February 1752)

42nd promotion (Versailles, 21 May 1752)

43rd promotion (Versailles, 1 January 1753)

44th promotion (Versailles, 2 February 1753)

45th promotion (Versailles, 10 June 1753)

46th promotion (Versailles, 2 February 1756)

47th promotion (Versailles, 6 June 1756)

48th promotion (Versailles, 1 January 1757)

49th promotion (Versailles, 2 February 1757)

50th promotion (Versailles, 29 May 1757)

51st promotion (Versailles, 14 May 1758)

52nd promotion (Versailles, 1 January 1759)

53rd promotion (Versailles, 2 February 1759)

54th promotion (18 May 1760)

55th promotion (21 July 1760)

56th promotion (22 July 1760)

57th promotion (8 September 1760)

58th promotion (Versailles, 10 May 1761)

59th promotion (Versailles, 1 January 1762)

60th promotion (Versailles, 2 February 1762)

61st promotion (Versailles, 30 May 1762)

62nd promotion (25 August 1762)

63rd promotion (Versailles, 2 February 1763)

64th promotion (Versailles, 2 February 1764)

65th promotion (Versailles, 10 June 1764)

66th promotion (Versailles, 1 January 1767)

67th promotion (2 February 1767)

68th promotion (Versailles, 7 June 1767)

69th promotion (1 January 1768)

70th promotion (22 May 1768)

71st promotion (Versailles, 1 January 1771)

72nd promotion (Versailles, 1 January 1773)

During the reign of Louis XV, Knights and commanders appointed and died without having been received

1724

1725

1731

  • Conrad-Alexandre, comte de Rottembourg.

1745

1746

1748

  • Anne-Louis de Thiard, marquis de Bissy, mestre-de-camp général of the cavalry, named chevalier des Ordres du Roi in an extraordinary session called by the king at Choisy on 4 May 1748. This appointment was cancelled when news arrived that he had died of wounds sustained during the Siege of Maastricht, however by a brêvet on 17 May 1748 his family was granted permission to add the honour of the order to their coat of arms.

1749

  • Marc-Antoine Front de Beaupoil de Saint-Aulaire, marquis de Lanmary, etc., ambassador in Sweden. Receiving appointment to the order on 1 January 1749, he died in Stockholm before he could be formerly enrolled. His family obtained a brêvet on 25 May of that year to allow them to display the honour in their coat of arms.
  • Fernando de Silva y Álvarez de Toledo, Duke of Huescar, etc., Spanish ambassador to France between 1746 and 1749

1750

1756

1757

1760

1761

1767

1768

Under Louis XVI

Louis XVI receives in Reims the homage of the Knights of the Holy Spirit, 13 June 1775, Gabriel-Francois Doyen (1726-1806), vers 1775, Musee national des chateaux de Versailles et de Trianon. Louis XVI Chevaliers du Saint-Spirit.jpg
Louis XVI receives in Reims the homage of the Knights of the Holy Spirit, 13 June 1775, Gabriel-François Doyen (1726–1806), vers 1775, Musée national des châteaux de Versailles et de Trianon.

The sixth head and sovereign Grand maître de l'ordre du Saint-Esprit, Louis XVI received the collar of l'Ordre on 2 February 1767, seven years before becoming king.

1st promotion (Versailles, 1 January 1776)

2nd promotion (26 may 1776)

3rd Promotion (1 January 1777)

4th Promotion (2 February 1777)

5th Promotion (9 November 1777)

6th Promotion du (1 January 1778)

7th Promotion (2 February 1778)

8th Promotion (9 June 1778)

9th Promotion (1 January 1780)

10th Promotion (14 may 1780)

11th Promotion (1 January 1781)

12th Promotion (2 February 1782)

13th Promotion (1 January 1784)

14th Promotion (30 may 1784)

15th Promotion (1 January 1785)

16th Promotion (2 February 1785)

17th Promotion (2 February 1786)

18th Promotion (11 June 1786)

19th Promotion (12 November 1786)

20th Promotion (27 may 1787)

21st Promotion (2 February 1788)

22nd Promotion (1 January 1789)

23rd Promotion (2 February 1789)

24th Promotion (31 may 1789)

Under Louis XVII

The unfortunate child, son of Louis XVI, reigned from behind the bars of the Temple from 21 January 1793 to 8 June 1795 and is not known to have received the collar of the Ordre du Saint-Esprit as this customarily only conferred on prince's after receiving their first communion.Given the royalists recognised him as king he is considered among them to be the seventh head and sovereign Grand Maître de l'Ordre du Saint-Esprit. [2]

Under Louis XVIII

The eighth head and sovereign Grand Maître de l'Ordre du Saint-Esprit Louis XVIII received the collar of the Order on 7 June 1767. For the knights of Saint-Esprit, the republic, consulate and empire never existed and the reign of Louis XVIII began on 8 June 1795 upon the death of the young king, his nephew, and continued without interruption until 1824. [2]

First promotion (1808)

Monseigneur de Talleyrand-Périgord, who was part of the Council of King Louis XVIII and who had followed this prince to Germany and from there to England, was appointed in 1808 Grand Almoner of France and Prelate Knight of the Order of the Holy Spirit, in the death of Cardinal de Montmorency.

Second promotion (1810)

Third promotion (1811)

Fourth promotion (1815)

Fifth promotion (1816)

Sixth promotion (1818)

Seventh promotion (Paris, 30 September 1820)

Eighth promotion (1821)

Ninth promotion (1823)

Tenth promotion (5 February 1824)

Under Charles X

The ninth head and sovereign Grand maître de l'Ordre du Saint-Esprit, Charles X received the collar of l'Ordre on 1er January 1771.

First promotion (Reims, 30 May 1825)

Promotion's made on the occasion of the coronation.

Second promotion (Paris, 14 May 1826)

Third promotion (Paris, 3 June 1827)

Fourth promotion (Paris, 25 May 1828)

Fifth promotion (Paris, 19 February 1829)

Sixth and final promotion (Tuileries, 31 May 1830, Pentecost)

See also

Annexes

Bibliographie

Notes and references