Claude de Beauharnais (22 September 1674 – 15 January 1738) was a French nobleman. He was ''sieur'' de Beaumont et de Bellechauve, captain ''des vaisseaux du roi'', and a knight of the

Order of Saint Louis The Royal and Military Order of Saint Louis (french: Ordre Royal et Militaire de Saint-Louis) is a dynastic order of chivalry founded 5 April 1693 by King Louis XIV, named after Saint Louis (King Louis IX of France). It was intended as a re ...

. He was the son of François IV de Beauharnais, seigneur de La Boische and his wife Marie Marguerite-Françoise Puyvart de Chastullé. A brother, François de Beauharnois was

intendant of New France The Intendant of New France was an administrative position in the French colony of New France. He controlled the colony's entire civil administration. He gave particular attention to settlement and economic development, and to the administration of ...

from 1702 to 1705. Another brother, Charles de Beauharnois served as

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from 1726 to 1746. Claude de Beauharnois never resided in the colony but three times commanded the ships that restocked the troops in New France.Biography at the ''Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online''
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Marriage and issue

In 1713, Claude de Beauharnais married Renée Hardouineau (daughter of Pierre Hardouineau, seigneur de La Laudanière and his wife Renée Le Pays de Beauville). They had two children: * François V de Beauharnais (8 February 1714 – 18 June 1800), seigneur de Beaumont et de Bellechauve, baron de Beauville, 1st marquis de la Ferté-Beauharnais. * Claude de Beauharnais, 1st comte des Roches-Baritaud (1717–1784), who in 1753 married Marie-Anne-Françoise Mouchard (1738–1813) (three children, including Claude de Beauharnais). Through his son François, Claude became grandfather of

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, and therefore the great-grandfather of

Eugène de Beauharnais Eugène Rose de Beauharnais, Duke of Leuchtenberg (; 3 September 1781 – 21 February 1824) was a French nobleman, statesman, and military commander who served during the French Revolutionary Wars and the Napoleonic Wars. Through the second ma ...

and

Hortense de Beauharnais Hortense Eugénie Cécile Bonaparte (; , ; 10 April 1783 – 5 October 1837) was Queen consort of Holland. She was the stepdaughter of Emperor Napoléon I as the daughter of his first wife, Joséphine de Beauharnais. Hortense later married Napo ...

References

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