Gabriel de Rochechouart, duc de Mortemart

• Gabriel de Rochechouart, duc de Mortemart
• Gabriel de Rochechouart, Duc de Mortemart married Diane de Grandseigne. (1)
• Gabriel de Rochechouart, Duc de Mortemart gained the title of Duc de Mortemart. (1)
• Child of Gabriel de Rochechouart, Duc de Mortemart and Diane de Grandseigne

• -1. Françoise Athénaïs de Rochechouart+ (1) b. 1641, d. 27 May 1707
  

• Forrás / Source: http://www.thepeerage.com/p22021.htm#i220203
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• Gabriel de Rochechouart de Mortemart
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• Spouse Diane de Grandseigne
• Issue

• -1. Gabrielle, Marchioness of Thianges
  
• -2. Louis Victor, Duke of Mortemart
  
• -3. Françoise, Marchioness of Montespan
  
• -4. Marie Christine de Rochechouart de Mortemart
  
• -5. Marie Madeleine, Abbess of Fontevraud
  

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Gabriel de Rochechouart de Mortemart

Noble family House of Rochechouart

Father Gaspard de Rochechouart

Mother Louise de Maure

Born 1600

Died 26 December, 1675

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Gabriel de Rochechouart de Mortemart, Duke of Mortemart (1600 – 26 December, 1675) was a French nobleman and father of the infamous Madame de Montespan. He was a friend of the French King Louis XIII.

Through his daughter Madame de Montespan, he is an ancestor of the famous, Philippe Egalité, Louis-Philippe I, King of the French, and Prince Henri, Count of Paris, the present Orléanist pretender to the French throne. He is also an ancestor of Juan Carlos I of Spain, Albert II, King of the Belgians, Henri, Grand Duke of Luxembourg and Vittorio Emanuele, Prince of Naples, the pretender to the Italian throne.

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Gabriel de Rochechouart de Mortemart, was the son of Gaspard de Rochechouart de Mortemart, Marquis of Mortemart and Louise de Maure, suo jure Countess of Maure. he had a younger brother, Louis de Rochechouart de Mortemart, who died without children in 1669.

He was raised as a play mate of Louis XIII of France, Dauphin of France from 1601 till 1610 when his father Henry IV of France was murdered. In 1630 he was named the First Gentleman of the Chamber to Louis XIII himself which etitled him to a pension of 6000 Livres. It was he and his children who would cultivate the famous Éspirt Mortemart, a type of tone of voice which allowed impossible things to be said. He also maintained the confidence of the powerful Cardinal Richelieu and was an imtimate of the Spanish born Queen Anne of Austria.

He was popular with the court, his brother Louis having been banished from it in 1630 for having been caught up in the unsuccessful Day of the Dupes, a day in November of 1630 on which the enemies of Cardinal Richelieu mistakenly believed that they had succeeded in persuading Louis XIII, King of France, to dismiss Richelieu from power.

He married Diane de Grandseigne in 1632 (1615 – 11 February, 1666); Diane came from a prominent family and was the daughter of Jean de Grandseigne, Marquis of Marsillac and Catherine de La Béraudière, known as dame de Villenon.

A year after his marriage, he was created a Knight of the Orders of the King.

During his infancy, till he succeeded his father, he was known as the Marquis of Vivonne, a subisdary title which was raised to a duchy in 1668.

When his father died in 1643, he took the title of Marquis of Mortemart: he was the second holder of the title. By 1650, with his prominent position at court; his son a friend of the young king Louis XIV; his wife a Lady in Waiting to Anne of Austria, Queen Mother.

On 23 December, 1663, Louis XIV raised the Marquisate of Mortemart, to a Dukedom and he was then known as the. The same day, Anne de Noailles became Duke of Noialles; the two families would be united in 1723 when Gabriel's grandson by La Montespan Louis Alexandre de Bourbon married a grand daughter of Anne, Marie Victoire de Noailles; they were the parents of the famously wealthy duc de Penthièvre.

Gabriel lived with his mistress, many years younger than he, for the remainder of his life at his various residences till he died in Paris: he had been made a holder of the chevalier de l'ordre du Saint Esprit and as a result o his daughters influence over Louis XIV, he had been made the Governor of Paris. He died a very wealthy man.

He died a Peer of France, Prince of Tonnay-Charente, Viscot of Rochechouart (the oldest title in France, 980), Marquis of Montpipeau (granted by Louis XIII), Count of Limoges (1661), Duke of Vivonne (1668). Lordships he owned were Paroisses de Montrol, Nouic, Blond, Vaulry, Beuilaufa, Le Fraisse, Javerdat, Saint-Victurnien (Barony), Oradour-sur-Glane (Châtellenie) along with the Baronies of Châtellenies de Lussac and Verrières et Dienné.

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gabriel_de_Rochechouart_de_Mortemart