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H.E. Antoine, 9th Duke of Gramont, Prince of Bidache

Antoine IX Geneviève Héraclius Agénor de Gramont (17 June 1789 – 3 March 1855), Duke of Guiche and then 9th Duke of Gramont, Prince of Bidache, etc. was a French aristocrat, soldier and diplomat.

Life

De Gramont was born at Versailles, the son of Antoine, 8th Duke of Gramont and Aglaé de Polignac, daughter of Gabrielle de Polastron, duchesse de Polignac, a court favourite of Marie Antoinette.

When the French Revolution broke out, in the year of his birth, Antoine and his family left the country for various parts of Europe, including Great Britain, Italy, Austria as well as Russia,.

In Russia, when Antoine de Gramont was 9 years-old, he was appointed a Lieutenant in the Tauride Grenadier Regiment, serving under the Russian General Suvorov. The young duke met his father in Mittau, where he was with Louis XVIII. His sister, Aglaé Angélique Gabrielle, at that time married an senior general, named Aleksandr Lvovich Davydov.

After completing his education in England, he fought under the Duke of Wellington in the Peninsular Wars.

He married Ida d'Orsay (sister of Alfred d'Orsay) in 1818; they had a son Agénor in the following year.

Meanwhile his military career continued to prosper: he was appointed a Lieutenant-General in the French Army in 1823, before having to accompany the exiled King Charles X to Scotland in 1830. He died in Paris in 1855, aged 65.

Arms de Gramont

Family

He married Anna Quintina Ida Grimod, Countess d'Orsay (19 June 1802 - 2 January 1882) in Paris on 23 July 1818.[1] They had children:

  • Antoine Alfred Agénor, 10th Duc de Gramont (Paris, 14 August 1819 - Paris, 17 January 1880),
  • Antoine Philibert Léon Auguste, Duc de Lesparre (1 July 1820 - Château de Mauvières, 4 September 1877),
  • Antonia Albertine Corisande (12 July 1821 - 5 October 1826),
  • Antoine Alfred Annérius Théophile, Comte de Gramont (Paris, 2 June 1823 - Paris, 18 December 1881), married in Paris on 21 November 1848 Louise Cécile Charlotte de Choiseul-Praslin (Paris, 16 June 1828 - Paris, 11 March 1902), and had:
    • Antoine Alfred Armand Xavier Louis, Comte de Gramont (Paris, 21 April 1861 - Savennières, 30 October 1923), married in Savennières on 2 October 1886 Anne Marie Brincard (Paris, 11 July 1868 - Savennières, 6 February 1961), of the Barons of the Empire Brincard, and had:
      • Antoine Louis Marie Arnaud Sanche, Comte de Gramont, Duc de Coigny by courtesy (Paris, 2 July 1888 - k.a. First World War, 3 July 1918), unmarried and without issue
      • Diane Antoinette Corisande Anne Marie Louise de Gramont de Coigny (Le Vignal, 3 October 1889 - Savennières, 30 January 1955), married in Paris on 2 December 1911 (div. in Paris on 25 October 1932) D. Nuno Álvares Pereira de Melo, Duque de Cadaval, Marquês de Ferreira com Tratamento de Sobrinho d' El-Rei, Conde de Tentúgal de Juro e Herdade (Pau, 29 February/November 1888 - Cantegril/St.Pierre-d'Irube, 15 February 1925/14 January 1935), and had issue
  • Antonia Armandine Aglaé Ida (5 October 1825 - Château de Samburcy, 6 September 1871),
  • Antonia Gabrielle Léontine (Paris, 2 March 1829 - Chambourcy, 15 October 1897), unmarried and without issue[2][3]

See also

References

  1. ^ http://thepeerage.com/p34435.htm
  2. ^ http://www.angelfire.com/realm/gotha/gotha/gramont.html
  3. ^ Richard Robert Madden (1855). Title The literary life and correspondence of the Countess of Blessington. Vol. 2 (2 ed.). T. C. Newby.


French nobility
Preceded by Duke of Gramont
1836 - 1835 		Succeeded by

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