Alexandre Emanuel Louis de Bauffremont (27 April 1773 – 23 December 1833) was Prince-Duke of Bauffremont.
Early life
editPrince Alexandre was born in Paris on 27 April 1773. He was a son of Joseph de Bauffremont, Prince of Listenois, and Princess Louise Bénigne de Bauffremont-Courtenay (a daughter of Louis de Bauffremont). Among his siblings were Hélène de Bauffremont-Courtenay (wife of Marie-Gabriel-Florent-Auguste de Choiseul-Gouffier) and Hortense Geneviève Marie Anne de Bauffremont-Courtenay (wife of Pierre Jules de Ferrari and Joseph Augustin de Narbonne-Lara).[1]
Career
editHe emigrated to Koblenz on the French Revolution but rallied to Napoleon and accepted the title of comte de l'Empire. He was made a peer of France in 1815 by King Louis XVIII.[1]
Personal life
editIn 1787 he married Marie-Antoinette de Quélen de La Vauguyon, daughter of Paul François de Quelen de La Vauguyon. Together, they were the parents of:[1]
- Alphonse Charles Jean, Prince-Duke of Bauffremont (1792–1860), who married Caterina Isabella Moncada, daughter of Giovanni Luigi Moncada, 9th Prince of Paternò.
- Théodore Paul Alexandre Demétrius de Bauffremont-Courtenay (1793–1853), who married Anne Élisabeth Laurence de Montmorency, sister to Anne Louis de Montmorency, 6th Duke of Montmorency.[2]
Bauffremont died on 23 December 1833.
Descendants
editThrough his son Alphonse, he was a grandfather of Paul Antoine Jean Charles, Prince-Duke of Bauffremont-Courtenay (1827–1893), who married, and divorced, Countess Valentine de Riquet de Caraman-Chimay, the younger daughter of Belgian diplomat and industrialist Joseph de Riquet de Caraman, 17th Prince de Chimay.[3][4]
Through his son Théodore, he was a grandfather of Anne Antoine Gontran de Bauffremont-Courtenay (1822–1897), who married Noëmie d'Aubusson de La Feuillade.[2]
References
edit- ^ a b c Annuaire de la pairie et de la noblesse de France et des maisons souveraines de l'Europe (in French). Bureau de la Revue historique de la noblesse. 1843. pp. 127–130. Retrieved 6 June 2023.
- ^ a b Balau, Sylv (1895). Histore de la Seigneurie de Modave (in French). L. Grandmont-Donders. p. 144. Retrieved 9 July 2024.
- ^ d' Hozier, Louis Pierre (1868). Armorial général de la France ... (in French). Firmin Didot frères et fils. p. 100. Retrieved 6 June 2023.
- ^ Correspondent, Our Own (27 January 1876). "A TEMPTEST IN A TEA-POT.; WHAT CAME OF PRINCE DE CHIMAY'S BALL.TRAITS OF EUROPEAN LIBERALS--WHY FOREIGNERS BECOME IMPERIALISTS OR MONARCHISTS--THE GOVERNOR OF HAINAUT AND HIS WOULD-BE GUESTS--LIBERTY IN A REPUBLICAN SENSE. THE AFFAIR OF PRINCE DE CHIMAY. THE RESULTS OF A BALL. A SHARP RETORT". The New York Times. Retrieved 5 June 2023.