- Gramont
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 [Precisely on the territory of what is now the French commune ofBergouey-Viellenave , see Jaurgain and Ritter, volume 1, p. 5-7] .Key representatives
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Antoine III de Gramont (1604-1678), Military officer and diplomat, with the titleMaréchal de France (1641).
*Catherine-Charlotte de Gramont (1639-1678),Princess of Monaco and mistress ofLouis 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.
* Louis VII of Gramont (1689-1745), defeated in theBattle of Dettingen and killed in theBattle of Fontenoy , son of Antoine V.
*Eugénie de Gramont (1788-1846), religious figure, grand-daughter of Antoine Adrien, Comte de Gramont (1726-1762)
*Antoine-Geneviève-Héraclius-Agénor de Gramont (1789-1854), "duc de Gramont" (Duke of Gramont), court figure with close relations to theBourbons , great-great-grandson of Antoine V.
*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 theUnited States under the name Ted Morgan.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)References
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