Gramont
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- For the town in France, see Gramont, Tarn-et-Garonne.
Gramont is the name of an old French noble family, whose name is connected to the castle of Gramont, Agramont in Spanish, in the French Basque province of Lower Navarre[1].
[edit] Key Representatives
- Antoine III de Gramont (1604-1678), Military officer and diplomat, with the title Maréchal de France (1641).
- Catherine-Charlotte de Gramont (1639-1678), Princess of Monaco and mistress of Louis XIV, daughter of the previous.
- Antoine V de Gramont (1671-1725), Duke of Gramont (also named Duke of Guiche), Maréchal de France (1724), grandson of the first.
- Antoine-Geneviève-Héraclius-Agénor de Gramont (1789-1854), duc de Gramont (Duke of Gramont), court figure with close relations to the Bourbons, great-great-grandson of the previous.
- Agenor, duc de Gramont (1819-1880), Duke of Gramont and Prince of Bidache, French diplomat and statesman, son of the previous.
- Gabriel Antoine Armand, Comte de Gramont (1908-1943), a hero of the French Resistance, grandson of the previous.
- Sanche de Gramont (1932- ), son of the previous, gave up his titles and became a naturalized citizen of the United States under the name Ted Morgan.
[edit] Bibliography
- Jean de Jaurgain and Raymond Ritter, La maison de Gramont 1040-1967, Les amis du musée pyrénéen, Tarbes (two volumes) (in French)
- W. H. Lewis: Assault on Olympus; the rise of the House of Gramont between 1604 and 1678, New York, Harcourt, Brace (1958)
[edit] References
- ^ Precisely on the territory of what is now the French commune of Bergouey-Viellenave, see Jaurgain and Ritter, volume 1, p. 5-7
