Armand de Vignerot du Plessis, Duke o Richelieu

Armand de Vignerot du Plessis
Duke o Richelieu
The maréchal-duc de Richelieu, Lisbon, Calouste Gulbenkian Museum, bi Nattier
Full name Louis François Armand de Vignerot du Plessis
Born	13 Mairch 1696(1696-03-13) Paris, Fraunce
Dee'd	8 Julie 1788(1788-07-08) (aged 92) Paris, Fraunce
Spoose(s)	Anne Catherine de Noailles Élisabeth Sophie o Lorraine Jeanne de Lavaulx
Issue Antoine, Duke of Richelieu Jeanne Sophie, Coontess o Egmont
Faither	Armand Jean de Vignerot du Plessis, Duke o Richelieu
Mither	Anne Marguerite d'Acigné

Armand de Vignerot du Plessis, Duke o Richelieu (Louis François Armand; 13 Mairch 1696 - 8 Julie 1788) wis a French duke an a Marshal o Fraunce. He wis an aa a good friend o Keeng Louis XV. He mairit 4 times an his son frae his seicont marriage wad succeed tae his tile Duke o Richelieu. He wis an aa a member o the Académie française. He wis the great-nephew o Cardinal Richelieu. He spent a brief prison sentance in the Bastille in Paris. He an aa haed a liason wi Charlotte Aglaé d'Orléans prior tae her mairiage.

Mairiages

1. On Februar 11 1711, against his will, he wis forced tae mairit Anne Catherine de Noailles (dochter o The Marquis o Noailles).
2. 1734 he then mairit Élisabeth Sophie o Lorraine an the couple haed twa childer.
3. On 13 Februar 1780, at the age o 84 he then mairit Jeanne (Catherine Josèphe) de Lavaulx.

Childer

Baith o his childer war wi his seicont wife Élisabeth Sophie o Lorraine.

1. Louis Antoine Sophie de Vignerot du Plessis (4 Februar 1736 – 1791), mairit Adélaide Gabrielle de Hautefort in 1765 an haed childer; mairit Marie Antoinette de Gallifet an haed childer.
2. Jeanne Sophie Elisabeth Septimanie de Vignerot du Plessis (1 Mairch 1740 – 14 October 1773), mairit Don Casimir Pignatelli, Coont o Egmont, Duke o Bisaccia; no childer.

Ither wabsteids

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