Antoine-François, marquis de Lambertye
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Charles-François-Antoine, marquis de Lambertie (22 October 1708, Lunéville – 9 February 1777, Cons-la-Grandville) was a French aristocrat of the Ancien régime.{{cite web|url=http://www.grand-armorial.net/Bibliotheque.php |title=Grand armorial international |publisher=Grand-armorial.net |date=2003-06-05 |accessdate=2015-04-01}}
Career
Lambertie served as an officer in the Royal Regiment of Guards becoming Lieutenant-Colonel, as well as serving King Louis XV as a diplomatic envoy to London.
He was appointed a Knight of the Order of the Holy Spirit and of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta.
In 1760 , he wrote a book on his travels in the Carabbean : Histoire des Caraïbes: Nation Sauvage qui habite les Isles du Vent en Amérique et partie de la Terre ferme ou continent.[https://books.google.com/books?id=cHXXxQEACAAJ Google Books]
Family
He succeeded his father, who had been created a Marquis in 1719 (Nicolas-François, a Lieutenant-General of the French Army{{cite web|url=http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k55658806/texteBrut |title=Bibliothèque nationale de France, département Philosophie, histoire, sciences de l'homme, 4-LM3-2449 : GÉNÉALOGIE |format=TXT |publisher=Gallica.bnf.fr |accessdate=2015-04-01}}) in the family titles, including Count de Cons-la-Grandville, Baron de Bioncourt, Seigneur de Chenières, de Villers-la-Chèvre, de Cônes, Flaubeville, de Cutry, du Grand et Petit-Failly, etc.
The Marquis of Lambertie married three times:
- 1. (1736) Marie-Anne-Françoise-Xavière de Custine (died 1739, in childbirth), daughter and sole heiress of Charles-Ferdinand, comte de Wiltz.{{cite web|url=http://www.visitluxembourg.com/fr/adresse/castle/chateau-de-wiltz |title=Château de Wiltz |publisher=Visitluxembourg.com |date= |accessdate=2015-04-01}}
- 2. (1758) Dame Antoinette de Vaux.
- 3. (1771) Marie-Françoise Louvain de Fontaines.
His nephew was Camille Joseph Graf Lambertie, a confidant of Francis II, Holy Roman Emperor.
See also
References
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External links
- [http://www.chateau-fort-manoir-chateau.eu/chateaux-dordogne-chateau-a-mialet-chateau-de-lambertie.html Château de Lambertie]
- [https://books.google.com/books?id=hI9bAAAAcAAJ&dq=marquis+de+lambertie&pg=PA370 Dictionnaire génealogique, héraldique et chronologique: Famille Lambertye (Paris 1757)]
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