Marc de Beauvau

Beauvau family

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Prince of Craon

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, Beauvau and of the Holy Roman Empire

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, grandee of Spain

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 (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

Lunéville

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. They had 8 sons and 12 daughters. His wife Anne Marguerite was the mistress of Leopold, Duke of Lorraine

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He was governor for the François de Lorraine

Francis I, Holy Roman Emperor

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, later Holy Roman Emperor, and administrated for this prince, with the title of viceroy of the grand-duchy of Tuscany

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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
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• 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
  Louise Henriette Françoise de Lorraine
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   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
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