Gramont
Encyclopedia
Gramont is the name of an old French noble family, whose name is connected to the castle of Gramont, Agramont in Spanish
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Basque
province of Lower Navarre
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Spanish language
Spanish , also known as Castilian , is a Romance language in the Ibero-Romance group that evolved from several languages and dialects in central-northern Iberia around the 9th century and gradually spread with the expansion of the Kingdom of Castile into central and southern Iberia during the...
, in the French
France
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Basque
Basque Country (historical territory)
The Basque Country is the name given to the home of the Basque people in the western Pyrenees that spans the border between France and Spain on the Atlantic coast....
province of Lower Navarre
Lower Navarre
Lower Navarre is a part of the present day Pyrénées Atlantiques département of France. Along with Navarre of Spain, it was once ruled by the Kings of Navarre. Lower Navarre was historically one of the kingdoms of Navarre. Its capital were Saint-Jean-Pied-de-Port and Saint-Palais...
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Key representatives
- Antoine III de GramontAntoine III de GramontAntoine III Agénor de Gramont-Toulongeon, duc de Gramont, comte de Guiche, comte de Gramont, comte de Louvigny, Souverain de Bidache, was a French military man and diplomat...
(1604–1678), Military officer and diplomat, with the title Maréchal de France (1641). - Catherine-Charlotte de GramontCatherine-Charlotte de GramontCatherine Charlotte de Gramont was a French noblewoman and Princess of Monaco as the wife of Louis I of Monaco and a mistress of Louis XIV of France.-Biography:...
(1639–1678), princesse de Monaco and mistress of Louis XIV, daughter of the previous. - Antoine V de GramontAntoine V de GramontAntoine V de Gramont , Duke of Guiche, French military figure and member of the Gramont family. He was the oldest child of Antoine Charles IV de Gramont and Marie Charlotte de Castelnau. At the age of thirteen, he became a musketeer and by 1687 he had become head of his regiment and had married the...
(1671–1725), duc de Gramont (also named duc de Guiche), Maréchal de France (1724), grandson of the first. - Louis VII of GramontLouis VII of Gramont, duc de GramontLouis VII of Gramont was Duke of Gramont and a French general in the War of Austrian Succession....
(1689–1745), defeated in the Battle of DettingenBattle of DettingenThe Battle of Dettingen took place on 27 June 1743 at Dettingen in Bavaria during the War of the Austrian Succession. It was the last time that a British monarch personally led his troops into battle...
and killed in the Battle of FontenoyBattle of FontenoyThe Battle of Fontenoy, 11 May 1745, was a major engagement of the War of the Austrian Succession, fought between the forces of the Pragmatic Allies – comprising mainly Dutch, British, and Hanoverian troops under the nominal command of the Duke of Cumberland – and a French army under Maurice de...
, son of Antoine V. - Eugénie de GramontEugénie de GramontEugénie de Gramont was a French nun of the Society of the Sacred Heart.-Life:She became a member of the Society of the Sacred Heart in 1806, encountering it at Amiens...
(1788–1846), religious figure, grand-daughter of Antoine Adrien, comte de Gramont (1726–1762). - Antoine-Geneviève-Héraclius-Agénor de GramontAntoine-Geneviève-Héraclius-Agénor de GramontAntoine IX Héraclius-Agénor de Gramont, Duke de Guiche and then Duke of Gramont was a French aristocrat.-Life:...
(1789–1854), duc de Gramont, court figure with close relations to the Bourbons, great-great-grandson of Antoine V. - Agenor, duc de GramontAgenor, duc de GramontAntoine Alfred Agénor, Duc de Gramont was a French diplomat and statesman.He was born at Paris of one of the most illustrious families of the old noblesse, a cadet branch of the viscounts of Aure, which took its name from the Seignory of Gramont in Navarre...
(1819–1880), duke of Gramont and prince of Bidache, French diplomat and statesman, son of the previous. - Louis de GramontLouis de GramontLouis Ferdinand de Gramont was a French journalist, dramatist, and librettist. He was a son of Ferdinand de Gramont.Gramont was born in Sèvres and finished his studies at the college there, then entered the School of Law...
(1854–1912), son of Ferdinand, French dramatist and librettist. - Louis-René Alexandre de Gramont (1883–1963), comte de Gramont, son of Agénor de Gramont (1851–1925), Commandeur de la Légion d'honneur and Croix de guerre 1914-1918.
- Philipppe Agénor Marie Antoine de Gramont (1917–1940) son of Louis-René de Gramont, comte de Gramont, Chevalier de la Légion d'honneur.
- Marguerite Corisande Alexandrine Marie de Gramont (1920–1998) baronne Philippe de Gunzbourg, daughter of comte de Gramont, Officier of Légion d'honneur and Croix de guerre.
- René Armand Antoine de Gramont (1927–2004) son of Louis-René de Gramont, comte de Gramont.
- François Marie Louis Antoine de Gramont (1931–1955) son of Louis-René de Gramont, comte de Gramont.
- Gabriel Antoine Armand, Comte de Gramont (1908–1943), a hero of the French Resistance, grandson of Agénor de Gramont (1819–1880) duc de Gramont and prince de Bidache.
- Sanche de Gramont (1932- ), son of the previous, gave up his titles and became a naturalized citizen of the United StatesUnited StatesThe United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
under the name Ted Morgan. - Arnaud François Louis Victurnien de Gramont (1960 - ) son of comte René de Gramont (1927–2004), photographer.