Francis IV of Beauharnais (1630, Orléans

Orléans

-Prehistory and Roman:Cenabum was a Gallic stronghold, one of the principal towns of the Carnutes tribe where the Druids held their annual assembly. It was conquered and destroyed by Julius Caesar in 52 BC, then rebuilt under the Roman Empire...

 - 1681, Orléans), squire

Squire

The English word squire is a shortened version of the word Esquire, from the Old French , itself derived from the Late Latin , in medieval or Old English a scutifer. The Classical Latin equivalent was , "arms bearer"...

, sieur of la Grillère (at Vouzon

Vouzon

Vouzon is a commune in the Loir-et-Cher department in central France.-See also:*Communes of the Loir-et-Cher department...

, Loir-et-Cher) and sieur de la Boische, was a French nobleman. His father was Jean de Beauharnais (1606–1661), maître d'Hôtel ordinaire du roi (one of the seven children of Anne Brachet and her husband Francis II of Beauharnais

Francis II of Beauharnais

Francis II of Beauharnais was a French magistrate. He was seigneur of La Grillière, the first president to the Présidial of Orléans , lieutenant général to the bailliage of Orléans, and a Third Estate député at the Estates General of 1614....

). His mother was Marie Mallet, and he had 2 siblings.

In 1663 he married Marguerite Françoise Pivart de Chastullé - among their 14 children was the politician Claude de Beauharnais (1680–1738).
Francis IV of Beauharnais was one of the great-grandfathers of the family Eslandoost de Beauville.