Henri, Count of Brionne

Henri
Count of Brionne
Anonymous engraving of Brionne
Born	(1661-11-15)15 November 1661
Died	3 April 1713(1713-04-03) (aged 51) Versailles, France
Spouse	Marie Madeline d'Epinay
Issue Detail	Louis, Prince of Lambesc Mademoiselle de Brionne
Names Henri de Lorraine
House	House of Lorraine
Father	Louis de Lorraine, Count of Armagnac
Mother	Catherine de Neufville

Henri de Lorraine (15 November 1661 – 3 April 1713) was the Count de Brionne. He was a member of a cadet branch of the House of Guise and the Grand Squire of France.

Biography

Born to Louis de Lorraine, Count of Armagnac, and his wife Catherine de Neufville, he was the couple's first child.

Henri's wife with their son Louis, 1697, François de Troy.

His father Louis, was the Grand Squire of France, one of the Great Officers of the Crown of France. The position was roughly equivalent to the United Kingdom positions of Master of the Horse and the Crown Equerry.

At Louis' death, the post, as well as style of Monsieur le Grand was taken by Henri's youngest brother, Charles of Lorraine, Count of Armagnac (at Charles' death, it was given to Louis' grandson, the Prince of Lambesc).

Henri's mother was Catherine de Neufville, youngest child of the Maréchal de Villeroy, governor of the young Louis XIV. Henri's first cousin was François de Neufville, Duke de Villeroy and the future governor of Louis XV.

On 23 December 1689, Henri married Marie Madeleine d'Épinay and had two children, the future Prince of Lambesc and a daughter styled Mademoiselle de Brionne. Only the former married. His great-granddaughter Joséphine of Lorraine, "Princess of Carignan" was the grand mother of King Charles Albert of Sardinia thus an ancestor of the present House of Savoy and thus the p[pretender to the modern Italian throne.

His sister, Marie was the mother of Louise Hippolyte Grimaldi, future sovereign Princess of Monaco.

Henri died in 1713, five years before his father and this the countship of Armagnac was given to his youngest brother, Charles. Henri died at Versailles, his wife outliving him by over a year.

He had an illegitimate child by an unknown mistress, Mademoiselle Pothenot; the child was called bâtard de Brionne and styled as "le Chevalier d'Orgon".

Issue

1. Louis de Lorraine, Prince de Lambesc (13 February 1692–9 September 1743) married Jeanne de Durfort (grand daughter of Jacques de Durfort) and had issue;
2. Marie Louise of Lorraine, Mademoiselle de Brionne (24 October 1693–18 October 1724) died unmarried.

Ancestry

Family of Henri, Count of Brionne

16. René of Lorraine, Marquis of Elbeuf 8. Charles of Lorraine, Duke of Elbeuf 17. Louise de Rieux 4. Henri of Lorraine, Count of Harcourt 18. Léonor Chabot, Count of Charny 9. Marguerite de Chabot 19. Françoise de Longwy-Rye 2. Louis of Lorraine, Count of Armagnac 20. François du Cambout, seigneur de Cambout 10. Charles du Cambout, Marquis of Coislin 21. Louise du Plessis de Richelieu 5. Marguerite Philippe du Cambout 22. Charles de Beurges, seigneur de Seury 11. Philippe de Beurges 23. Jeanne Lescoët, dame de Mogulaye 1. Henri de Lorraine, Count of Brionne 24. Nicolas IV de Neufville, seigneur de Villeroy 12. Charles de Neufville, Marquis of Villeroy 25. Madeleine de L'Aubespine 6. Nicolas de Neufville, Duke of Villeroy 26. Nicolas de Harlay, Baron de Maule 13. Jacqueline de Harlay de Sancy 27. Marie Moreau, dame de Grosbois 3. Catherine de Neufville 28. Antoine de Blanchefort de Créquy, seigneur (Lord) of Saint-Janvrin 14. Charles de Blanchefort, Duke de Créquy, Prince of Poix 29. Chrétienne d'Aguerre 7. Marie de Créquy, dame de Mions 30. François de Bonne, (1st) Duke of Lesdiguières 15. Madeleine de Bonne de Lesdiguières 31. Claudine de Berenger

Titles, styles, honours and arms

Titles and styles

• 15 November 1661 – 3 April 1713 the Count of Brionne