Duke of Montmorency

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The title of Duc de Montmorency was created several times for members of the Montmorency family, who were lords of Montmorency, near Paris. The first creation was in 1551 for Anne de Montmorency, Constable of France. This title was forfeited by the fourth Duke, who was executed for treason in 1632. The duchy was then recreated in 1633 for his sister Charlotte Marguerite de Montmorency and her husband the Prince de Condé. This title was renamed Duc d'Enghien in 1689, and the Montmorency title transferred to the duchy of Beaufort, which had been conferred on Charles François Frederic de Montmorency-Luxembourg, Prince de Tingry, in 1688. This title was authorised to pass through the female line to the branch of Montmorency-Fosseux in 1767 and became extinct in 1862. However, in 1864 the Emperor Napoleon III extended the title to the Duc de Valençay, second son of the Duc de Talleyrand by Anne Louise Charlotte de Montmorency, sister of the 6th Duke. His male issue became extinct in 1951, when the Dukedom of Montmorency again became extinct.

[edit] Ducs de Montmorency, first creation (1551)

[edit] Ducs de Montmorency, second creation (1633), later Ducs d'Enghien

On the death of the Prince de Condé in 1830, the title passed to Louis Philippe III, Duc d'Orléans, a great-great-grandson of the 4th Duc d'Enghien through the female line. He had become King of the French as Louis Philippe I a month earlier.

[edit] Ducs de Montmorency, third creation (1688), previously Ducs de Beaufort

  • Charles François Frédéric de Montmorency-Luxembourg, 1st Duc de Beaufort (1662-1726, title changed to Duc de Montmorency in 1689
  • Charles François Frédéric de Montmorency-Luxembourg, 2nd Duc de Montmorency (1702-1764)
  • Anne François de Montmorency-Luxembourg, 3rd Duc de Montmorency (1735-1761)
  • Charlotte Anne Françoise de Montmorency-Luxembourg, Duchesse de Montmorency (1752-1829)
  • Anne Léon de Montmorency, jure uxoris 4th Duc de Montmorency (1731-1799), married Charlotte Anne Françoise in 1767
  • Anne Charles François de Montmorency, 5th Duc de Montmorency (1768-1846)
  • Anne Louis Raoul Victor de Montmorency, 6th Duc de Montmorency (1790-1862)
  • Nicolas Raoul Adalbert de Talleyrand-Périgord, 7th Duc de Montmorency (1837-1915), nephew of the 6th Duke, title extended to him and his issue in 1864
  • Napoléon Louis Eugène Alexandre Anne Emmanuel de Talleyrand-Périgord, 8th Duc de Montmorency (1867-1951)
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