Louis de Pardaillan de Gondrin (1707–1743)

Louis
Duke of Antin
Spouse(s) Françoise Gillonne de Montmorency
Issue
Louis, Duke of Antin
Julie, Duchess of Uzès
Full name
Louis de Pardaillan de Gondrin
Noble family House of Pardaillan de Gondrin
Father Louis de Pardaillan de Gondrin
Mother Marie Victoire de Noailles
Born 9 November 1707(1707-11-09)
Versailles, France
Died 9 December 1743(1743-12-09) (aged 36)
France

Louis de Pardaillan de Gondrin (9 November 1707 – 9 December 1743).[1] known as the Duke of Antin (duc d'Antin) was a member of the French court and a male line descendant of Madame de Montespan.

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Biography

Louis was born at Versailles in 1707 to Louis de Pardaillan de Gondrin, marquis de Gondrin and his wife Marie Victoire de Noailles, one of the twenty children of Anne Jules de Noailles and Marie Françoise de Bournonville. The eldest of two children, he was known as the marquis de Gondrin from 1712 when his father unexpectedly died aged 23.

His father was from the House of Pardaillan de Gondrin, an old noble family of Gascon origin. His grandfather, Louis Antoine was the only legitimate son of Madame de Montespan, his paternal great grand mother.

In 1722, his grandfather, Louis Antoine resigned the Duchy of Antin and gave it to his grandson who was fifteen at the time. On 29 October 1722, he married Françoise Gillonne de Montmorency[1] (1704–1768) a grand daughter of François Henri de Montmorency, Duke of Luxembourg and Marshal of France. The couple had four children, one son born in 1727 and three daughters in all.

His son never married and died in Breme[1] during the Seven Years' War. His daughter married into the Uzès. The Uzès family were one of the most senior peers in France and as such, ranked immediately after the Princes of the Blood (legitimate male line descendants of the ruling House of Bourbon).

His mother later married Louis Alexandre de Bourbon, Count of Toulouse, the youngest child of Louis XIV and Louis' great grandmother Madame de Montespan. Louis' mother and Toulouse married on 2 February 1723 in a secret ceremony. The marriage was announced only after the death of the Régent in December of the same year.[2]

As such, his half brother was Louis Jean Marie de Bourbon, the duc de Penthièvre and single richest man in France prior to the revolution. His nephews included the prince de Lamballe[3] (husband of the murdered Maria Teresa Luisa of Savoy) as well as

His maternal cousin's included the Duke of Noailles (husband of Madame de Maintenon's heiress) as well as the Duke of La Vallière.[4]

He died at the age of 36[1] and was succeeded as Duke of Antin by his only son Louis. His wife outlived him by twenty-five years.

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Ancestry

References and notes

  1. ^ a b c d Decloitre, André. "Louis de Pardaillan de Gondrin Duke of d'Antin". Geneanet.org. http://gw1.geneanet.org/index.php3?b=genroy&lang=fr;p=louis;n=de+pardaillan+de+gondrin;oc=1. Retrieved 2010-03-16. 
  2. ^ Lenotre, G. Le Château de Rambouillet, six siècles d'histoire, Calmann-Lévy, Paris, 1930, reprint by Denoël, Paris, 1984, Chapter 3, Chez le fils du Roi-Soleil, pp. 45-46 (French)
  3. ^ The two never met as Louis died before the prince was born in 1747
  4. ^ Great nephew of Louise de La Vallière, the first official mistress of Louis XIV of France who was supplanted by Madame de Montespan; he was a famous