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Gaston
Count of Marsan
Born(1721-02-07)7 February 1721
Paris, France
Died2 May 1743(1743-05-02) (aged 22)
Strasbourg, France
SpouseMarie Louise de Rohan
Names
Gaston Jean Baptiste Charles de Lorraine
FatherCharles Louis, Count of Marsan
MotherÉlisabeth de Roquelaure

Gaston de Lorraine (Gaston Jean Baptiste Charles; 7 February 1721 – 2 May 1743) was a French nobleman and member of a cadet branch of the House of Lorraine. He was the last Count of Marsan. His wife was Marie Louise de Rohan.

Biography

The eldest son of Charles Louis de Lorraine and his wife Élisabeth de Roquelaure, he was one of four children.[1] He bore the first names [Gaston Jean Bapiste] as his great grandfather Gaston Jean Baptiste de Roquelaure, father of the maréchal de Roquelaure.

His father was known as the prince de Pons and Gaston was styled the Count of Marsan (comte de Marsan) from birth. As a male line descendant of the House of Guise (cadet branch of the House of Lorraine) he was a Foreign Prince residing at the royal court of Versailles and had the right to the style of Highness.

His older sister Louise Henriette Gabrielle[1] married into the prestigious House of La Tour d'Auvergne, sovereigns of the Duchy of Bouillon.

At the age fifteen, he was married to Marie Louise de Rohan. Marie Louise was the daughter of Jules, Prince of Soubise and his wife Anne Julie de Melun. The only daughter of five children, her older brother was the famous maréchal de Soubise. The couple were married on 4 June 1736.[1] The wedding nuptials were carried out in the chapel of the hôtel de Mayenne by her great uncle the Cardinal de Soubise.[2]

In 1736, the year of his marriage, Gaston was put on campaign as an Aide-de-camp[3] to his father. The previous year, he was given his own regiment the Marsan regiment. On 20 February 1743 he was created a Brigadier of the Kings armies.[3] Some three months later he died of Smallpox[3] in Strasbourg leaving his childless wife a widow at the age of twenty two. He was buried in the Strasbourg Cathedral.

His wife never remarried and outlived him till 1801.[1] She was the future later the Governess to the Children of France and as such, the governess of the future Louis XVI, Louis XVIII add Charles X the grandsons of Louis XV. His wife's parents also died of smallpox within a week of each other in May 1724.

Ancestry

Family of Gaston, Count of Marsan
16. Charles de Lorraine, Duke of Elbeuf
8. Henri de Lorraine, Count of Armagnac, of Harcourt and of Charny
17. Marguerite de Chabot, Countess of Charny
4. Charles de Lorraine, Count of Marsan
18. Charles du Cambout, Marquis of Coislin
9. Marguerite Philippe du Cambout
19. Philippe de Beurges
2. Charles Louis de Lorraine, Count of Marsan
20. François Goyon de Matignon, Count of Thorigny
10. Henri Goyon de Matignon, Count of Thorigny
21. Anne Malon de Bercy
5. Catherine Thérèse de Goyon de Matignon
Aunt of Jacques I, Prince of Monaco
22. François Le Tellier, Baron of La Luthumière
11. Marie Françoise Le Tellier, Dame of La Luthumière
23. Charlotte Crespin du Bec
1. Gaston de Lorraine
24. Antoine de Roquelaure, Baron of Biran
12. Gaston de Roquelaure, Duke of Roquelaure
25. Suzanne de Bassabat, Lady of Castex
6. Antoine Gaston de Roquelaure, Duke of Roquelaure
26. Thimoléon de Daillon, Count of Lude
13. Charlotte Marie de Daillon, Lady of Lude
27. Marie de Feydeau
3. Élisabeth de Roquelaure
28. Pierre de Laval, Lord of Lezay
14. Guy Urbain de Laval, Marquis of Laval-Lezay
29. Isabeau de Rochechouart de Mortemart
7. Marie Louise de Laval
30. Claude de Sesmaisons, Lord of La Sauzinière
15. Françoise de Sesmaisons
31. Barbe Le Bigot

Titles, styles, honours and arms

Titles and styles

  • 7 February 1721 – 2 May 1743 His Highness the Count of Marsan

References and notes

  1. ^ a b c d van de Pas, Leo. "Gaston de Lorraine". Genealogics .org. Retrieved 2010-03-29.
  2. ^ de La Chesnaye-Desbois, Badier, Francois Alexandre Aubert. Dictionnaire de la noblesse. Retrieved 2010-07-21. {{cite book}}: |work= ignored (help)
  3. ^ a b c Branche des comtes d'Harcourt sortie des ducs d'Elbeuf. Retrieved 2010-05-04. {{cite book}}: |work= ignored (help)

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