Louis de Pardaillan de Gondrin (1707–1743)

Louis
Louis
Duke of Antin
Full name	Louis de Pardaillan de Gondrin
Born	9 November 1707; Versailles, France
Died	9 December 1743 (aged 36); France
Noble family	Pardaillan de Gondrin
Spouse(s)	Françoise Gillonne de Montmorency
Issue; Detail	Louis, Duke of Antin; Julie, Duchess of Uzès
Father	Louis de Pardaillan de Gondrin
Mother	Marie Victoire de Noailles

Louis de Pardaillan de Gondrin (French pronunciation: [lwi də paʁdajɑ̃ də ɡɔ̃dʁɛ̃]; 9 November 1707 – 9 December 1743),^[1] Duke of Antin (French: duc d'Antin), was a French courtier, freemason^[2] and male-line great-grandson of Madame de Montespan.

Early life

He was born at Versailles in 1707, the elder of the two children of Louis de Pardaillan de Gondrin, marquis de Gondrin, and his wife, Marie Victoire de Noailles. His father was a member of the House of Pardaillan de Gondrin, an old noble family of Gascon origin. His mother was one of twenty children born to Anne Jules de Noailles and Marie Françoise de Bournonville. Among his large extended family were maternal cousins, Adrien Maurice, Duke of Noailles (who married Madame de Maintenon's heiress) and the Duke of La Vallière.^[3]

Career

Louis was known as the marquis de Gondrin from 1712 when his father died unexpectedly at the age of 23. In 1722, his grandfather, Louis Antoine, the only legitimate son of Madame de Montespan, resigned the Duchy of Antin and gave it to his grandson who was fifteen at the time.

Louis's mother remarried on 2 February 1723 to Louis Alexandre de Bourbon, Count of Toulouse, the youngest child of Louis XIV and Louis's great-grandmother : Mme de Montespan in a secret ceremony. The marriage was announced only after the death of the Régent in December of the same year.^[4] As such, his half-brother was Louis Jean Marie de Bourbon, the duc de Penthièvre and single richest man in France prior to the revolution. His nephews included the prince de Lamballe^[5] (husband of the murdered Maria Teresa Luisa of Savoy).

Personal life

On 29 October 1722, he married Françoise Gillonne de Montmorency^[1] (1704–1768), a granddaughter of François Henri de Montmorency, Duke of Luxembourg and Marshal of France. The couple had four children, one son (born in 1727) and three daughters.

Julie Sophie Gillette de Pardaillan de Gondrin (1725–1797), the Abbess of Fontevraud from 1765 to 1792; she never married.
Louis de Pardaillan de Gondrin (1727–1757), who never married and died in Breme during the Seven Years' War.^[1]
Marie Françoise de Pardaillan de Gondrin (1728–1764), who married François Emery de Durfort, Count of Civrac.
Julie Magdeleine Victoire de Pardaillan de Gondrin (1731–1799), who married François Emmanuel de Crussol, 9th Duke of Uzès, one of the most senior peers in France, ranking immediately after the Princes of the Blood (legitimate male-line descendants of the ruling House of Bourbon).

He died at the age of 36,^[1] and was succeeded as Duke of Antin by his only son Louis. His wife outlived him by 25 years.

Ancestry

Ancestors of Louis de Pardaillan de Gondrin (1707–1743)

16. Roger Hector de Pardaillan de Gondrin, Marquis of Antin

8. Louis Henri de Pardaillan de Gondrin, Marquis of Montespan

17. Marie-Christine Zamet

4. Louis Antoine de Pardaillan de Gondrin, Duke of Antin

18. Gabriel de Rochechouart de Mortemart, Duke of Mortemart

9. Françoise-Athénaïs de Rochechouart de Mortemart, Marchioness of Montespan

19. Diane de Grandseigne

2. Louis de Pardaillan de Gondrin, Marquis of Gondrin

20. François de Crussol, Duke of Uzès

10. Emmanuel de Crussol, Duke of Uzès

21. Marguerite d'Apchier

5. Julie Françoise de Crussol

22. Charles de Sainte-Maure, Duke of Montausier

11. Marie Julie de Sainte-Maure

23. Julie Lucine d'Angennes

1. Louis de Pardaillan de Gondrin

24. François de Noailles, Count of Ayen

12. Anne de Noailles, Duke of Noailles

25. Rose de Roquelaure

6. Anne Jules de Noailles, Duke of Noailles

26. Antoine Boyer, Lord of Sainte-Geneviève-aux-Bois

13. Louise Boyer

27. Françoise de Wignacourt

3. Marie Victoire Sophie de Noailles

28. Alexandre I, Duke of Bournonville

14. Ambroise-François, Duke of Bournonville

29. Anne de Melun

7. Marie-Françoise de Bournonville

30. Charles, Duke of La Vieuville

15. Lucrèce Françoise de La Vieuville

31. Marie Bouhier de Sainte-Geneviève, Lady of Beaumarchais

References

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d Decloitre, André. "Louis de Pardaillan de Gondrin Duke of d'Antin". Geneanet.org. Retrieved 2010-03-16.
^ Dictionnaire de la Franc-maçonnerie, page 900 (Daniel Ligou, ed. Presses Universitaires de France, Paris, 2006)
^ Great-nephew of Louise de La Vallière, the first official mistress of Louis XIV of France who was supplanted by Madame de Montespan.
^ Lenotre, G. Le Château de Rambouillet, six siècles d'histoire, Calmann-Lévy, Paris, 1930, reprint by Denoël, Paris, 1984, Chapter 3, Chez le fils du Roi-Soleil, pp. 45-46 (French)
^ The two never met as Louis died before the prince was born in 1747