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About Arthur, archbishop of Narbonne
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Richard_Dillon
Arthur Richard Dillon (1721–1806) was archbishop of Narbonne in France. He was the youngest son of Arthur Dillon (1670–1733), who came to France with Mountcashel's Irish Brigade. At the French Revolution he refused the civil constitution of the clergy and fled first to Coblence and then to London.
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Arthur Richard was born on 15 September 1721 at the Château de Saint-Germain-en-Laye in France.[1] He was the youngest of the five sons of Arthur Dillon and his wife Christina Sheldon. His father was born in 1670 in Ireland, had fought for the Jacobites in the Williamite War and had gone to France as the colonel of Dillon's Regiment with the Irish Brigade in April 1690 when Irish troops were sent to France in exchange for French troops sent to Ireland with Lauzun. He was a younger son of the 7th Viscount Dillon. His father's family was Old English Irish and descended from Sir Henry Dillon who came to Ireland with Prince John in 1185.[2] Henry's mother was a daughter of Ralph Sheldon, whereas Dominic Sheldon, the English Catholic Jacobite, was her uncle. She was a maid of honour to Queen Mary of Modena, wife of James II.[3] Both parents were thus Jacobites and Catholics. They had five sons and several daughters.[4]
From about the age of fifty he lived with his wealthy, widowed niece, Madame de Rothe. She was born Lucy Cary and was the child of his sister Laura, who had married Lucius Cary, 6th Viscount Falkland. Madame de Rothe had been widowed in 1766. Dillon and Madame de Rothe were lovers, an arrangement considered scandalous even by the jaded standards of the day. They maintained a household primarily at the château de Hautefontaine, where Dillon kept an extravagant hunt. Madame de Rothe brought her daughter Thérèse-Lucy de Dillon, a favourite of Marie Antoinette, the French Queen, and her grand-daughter Henriette-Lucy, who would become the memoirist Henriette-Lucy, Marquise de La Tour du Pin Gouvernet.
On 7 February 1604, Madame de Rothe, his partner, died in London. He survived her by two years and died on 5 July 1806 in London, and was buried in St Pancras churchyard, which was the burial place favoured by the émigré community, as there was no official Catholic cemetery available.[19]
References
- http://www.thepeerage.com/p37110.htm#i371097
- http://www.cobbecollection.co.uk/
- Hayes, R. (1942). Biographical Dictionary of Irishmen in France. Studies: An Irish Quarterly Review, 31(124), 477-492. Retrieved December 9, 2020, from http://www.jstor.org/stable/30098105 page 487.
- http://www.pastellists.com/Genealogies/Dillon.pdf
- A compendium of Irish biography: comprising sketches of distinguished Irishmen, and of eminent persons connected with Ireland by office or by their writings. by Webb, Alfred John. Page 150. Archive.Org
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Arthur, archbishop of Narbonne's Timeline
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September 14, 1721
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| 1806 |
July 5, 1806
Age 84
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Old St. Pancras churchyard, London, Middlesex County , England
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