Duc de Mouchy

The title of duke of Mouchy was a French peerage held by members of a cadet branch of the Noailles family.

The founder of the branch, Philippe, comte de Noailles (1715-1794), was the younger brother of Louis, 4th duc de Noailles and a marshal of France.

He received the Spanish title of prince of Poix in 1729, and that of duke of Mouchy, also a Spanish title, in 1747, when on the birth of his first son the title of prince of Poix became a courtesy title held by the heir. In 1767 Philippe de Noailles received the additional French non hereditary title of duke of Poix.

Three of Noailles's sons died as infants, the last before the birth of the duke's successor, Philippe-Louis-Marc-Antoine de Noailles, who was thus prince de Poix from his birth. On his father's death, he became prince-duc de Poix and the Spanish duc de Mouchy. In 1817, during the Restoration, he was created duc de Mouchy as a French peerage. From that point, the head of the male line has been duc de Mouchy and prince-duc de Poix.

Dukes of Mouchy (1817)

From the creation of the French peerage, the holders have been:

* Philippe-Louis-Marc-Antoine de Noailles, 1st duc de Mouchy (1752-1819)
* Charles-Arthur-Tristan-Languedoc de Noailles, 2nd duc de Mouchy (1771-1834)
* Antoine-Claude-Dominique-Just de Noailles, 3rd duc de Mouchy (1777–1846)
* Charles-Philippe-Henri de Noailles, 4th duc de Mouchy (1808–1854)
* Antonin-Just-Léon-Marie de Noailles, 5th duc de Mouchy (1841–1909)
* Henri-Antoine-Marie de Noailles, 6th duc de Mouchy (1890–1947)
* Philippe-François-Armand-Marie, 7th duc de Mouchy (b. 1922)

The heir-apparent is Antoine-Georges-Marie de Noailles, prince de Poix (b. 1950).

ources

* [http://www.heraldique-europeenne.org/Regions/France/Noailles.htm Héraldique européenne: Maison de Noailles] (European Heraldry: House of Noailles, in French)
* [http://pages.prodigy.net/ptheroff/gotha/noailles.html An Online Gotha: Noailles]
* [http://www.heraldica.org/topics/france/peerage19l.htm Armory of the French Hereditary Peerage (1814-30)]