Marc de Beauvau

The Prince of Beauvau-Craon by Hyacinthe Rigaud. Nancy, Musée Lorrain.

Marc de Beauvau Prince of Craon, Beauvau and of the Holy Roman Empire, grandee of Spain (29 April 1679 - 10 March 1754) was a French nobleman.

The son of Louis de Beauvau, Marquis of Beauvau (1638-1703) and his second wife, Anne de Ligny, on 16 December 1704 he married Anne Marguerite de Lignéville (1686-1772), countess of the Holy Roman Empire, at Lunéville. They had 8 sons and 12 daughters. His wife Anne Marguerite was the mistress of Leopold, Duke of Lorraine.

He was governor for the François de Lorraine, later Holy Roman Emperor, and administrated for this prince, with the title of viceroy of the grand-duchy of Tuscany.

Issue

• Élisabeth Charlotte de Beauvau (1705-1754) married Charles Ferdinand François de La Baume, Marquis of Saint-Martin, no issue; named after Élisabeth Charlotte d'Orléans
• Anne Marguerite Gabrielle de Beauvau (1707-1790) married Jacques Henri de Lorraine, Prince of Mortagne(-sur-Gironde), no issue ; married Gaston Pierre Charles de Lévis, Duke of Mirepoix, no issue;
• Gabrielle Françoise de Beauvau (1708-1758) married Gabriel Alexandre d'Alsace, Prince of Chimay, no issue;
• Marie Philippe Tècle de Beauvau (1709-1748) Canoness, never married;
• Nicolas Simon Jude de Beauvau (1710-1734) never married, Abbé de Craon
• Marie Françoise Catherine de Beauvau (1711-1787) married Louis-François de Boufflers, Marquis of Amestranges, no issue ;
• François Vincent Marc de Beauvau (1713-1742) Primat de Lorraine, never married;
• Léopold Clément de Beauvau (1714-1723) Knight of the Order of Malta, named after Léopold Clément, Hereditary Prince of Lorraine
• Marie Louise Eugénie de Beauvau (1715-1734) Abesss of Epinal
• Henriette Augustine (1716--) never married;
• Charlotte Nicole de Beauvau (1717-1787) who married Léopold Clément de Bassompierre, no issue ;
• Charles Juste de Beauvau (1720-1793) married Marie Sophie Charlotte de La Tour d'Auvergne daughter of Emmanuel Theodose de La Tour d'Auvergne (1668-1730) and Louise Henriette Francoise de Lorraine and had issue; married Marie-Charlotte-Sylvie de Rohan-Chabot, no issue;
• Ferdinand Jerôme de Beauvau, Marquis of Haroué (1723-1790) married Louise Etienne Desmier d'Archiac and had issue.
• Gabrielle Charlotte de Beauvau (1724-1790) never married;
• Alexandre de Beauvau, Marquis of Craon (1725-1745) died at the Battle of Fontenoy;

Source

• This page is a translation of its French equivalent.