The House of Gramont is the name of an old French noble family, whose name is connected to the castle of Gramont (''Agramont'' in

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province of

Lower Navarre Lower Navarre (; Gascon/Bearnese: ''Navarra Baisha''; ; ) is a traditional region of the present-day French '' département'' of Pyrénées-Atlantiques. It corresponds to the northernmost ''region'' of the Kingdom of Navarre during the Middle A ...

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.Precisely on the territory of what is now the French commune of Bergouey-Viellenave, see Jaurgain and Ritter, volume 1, p. 5-7

Notable members

Antoine III de Gramont Antoine de Gramont, 2nd Duke of Gramont, ''comte de Guiche,'' ''comte de Gramont,'' ''comte de Louvigny,'' ''Souverain de Bidache'' (''Antoine Agénor''; 1604 – 12 July 1678) was a French military commander and diplomat. He served as Mars ...

(1604–1678), Military officer and diplomat, with the title

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(1641). *

Catherine-Charlotte de Gramont Catherine Charlotte de Gramont (; 1639 – 4 June 1678) was Princess of Monaco from 1662 to 1678 as the consort of Prince Louis I, and was once a mistress of Louis XIV of France in 1666. Life Early life Catherine Charlotte de Gramont was ...

(1639–1678), princesse de Monaco and mistress of

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, daughter of the previous. * Guy Armand de Gramont, Comte de Guiche (1637-1673), notable adventurer and playboy. Openly

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, he was a lover of Prince Philippe of France, and (allegedly) of Philippe's wife,

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. Son of first, brother of second. *

Antoine V de Gramont Antoine de Gramont, 4th Duke of Gramont (January 1672 – 16 September 1725), Duke of Guiche, was a Marshal of France. Early life French military figure and member of the Gramont family, House of Gramont, he was the oldest child of Antoine Charle ...

(1671–1725), duc de Gramont (also named ''duc de Guiche''),

(1724), grandson of the first. * Louis of Gramont (1689–1745), defeated in the

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and killed in the

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, son of Antoine V. * Eugénie de Gramont (1788–1846), religious figure, granddaughter of Antoine Adrien, comte de Gramont (1726–1762). * Antoine-Geneviève-Héraclius-Agénor de Gramont (1789–1854), duc de Gramont, court figure with close relations to the

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, great-great-grandson of Antoine V. * Agénor de Gramont, 10th Duke of Gramont (1819–1880), duke of Gramont and prince of Bidache, French diplomat and statesman, son of the previous. * Agénor de Gramont, 11th Duke of Gramont (1851–1925), duke of Gramont and prince of Bidache, French soldier, son of the previous. * Antoine Alfred Arnaud Xavier Louis de Gramont (1861–1923), Count, French spectroscopist *

Élisabeth de Gramont Antoinette Corisande Élisabeth, Duchess of Clermont-Tonnerre (née de Gramont; 23 April 1875 – 6 December 1954) was a French people, French writer of the early 20th century, best known for her long-term lesbian relationship with Natalie C ...

(1875–1954), Duchess of Clermont-Tonnerre, French writer * Armand de Gramont, 12th Duke of Gramont (1879–1962), duke of Gramont, French nobleman, scientist and industrialist, brother of previous. * Louis de Gramont (1854–1912), son of Ferdinand, French dramatist and librettist. * Louis-René Alexandre de Gramont (1883–1963), comte de Gramont, son of Agénor de Gramont (1851–1925), Commandeur de la Légion d'honneur and Croix de guerre 1914–1918. * Henri de Gramont, 13th Duke of Gramont (1907–1995), duke of Gramont, French nobleman. * Gabriel Antoine Armand, Comte de Gramont (1908–1943), a hero of the French Resistance, grandson of Agénor de Gramont (1819–1880) duc de Gramont and prince de Bidache. * Philipppe Agénor Marie Antoine de Gramont (1917–1940) son of Louis-René de Gramont, comte de Gramont, Chevalier de la Légion d'honneur. * Marguerite Corisande Alexandrine Marie de Gramont (1920–1998) baronne Philippe de Gunzbourg, daughter of comte de Gramont, Officier of Légion d'honneur and Croix de guerre. * René Armand Antoine de Gramont (1927–2004) son of Louis-René de Gramont, comte de Gramont. * François Marie Louis Antoine de Gramont (1931–1955) son of Louis-René de Gramont, comte de Gramont. * Sanche de Gramont (1932–2023), son of the previous, gave up his titles and became a naturalized citizen of the

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under the name Ted Morgan. * Arnaud François Louis Victurnien de Gramont (1960 - ) son of comte René de Gramont (1927–2004),

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Gallery

AntoineIX.jpg, Héraclius de Gramont, 9th Duke of Gramont, by

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, between 1810 and 1855 Marguerite de Rothschild.jpg,

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(second wife of the 11th Duke of Gramont), by

Philip de László Philip Alexius László de Lombos (born Fülöp Laub; ; 30 April 1869 – 22 November 1937), known professionally as Philip de László, was an Anglo-Hungarian painter known particularly for his portraits of royal and aristocratic personages. ...

, 1902 Princess M. Ruspoli, Duchess de Gramont, by Philip Alexius de László.jpg, Princess Marie Ruspoli (third wife of the 11th Duke of Gramont), by

, 1922 Louis-René, comte de Gramont, by Philip Alexius de László.jpg, Louis-René de Gramont, 12th Duke of Gramont, by

, 1902 Gramont Family Duchesse Elisabeth de Clermont-Tonnerre, Comte Louis-René de Gramont, and Agenor, 11th duc de Gramont.jpg, Duchess Elisabeth de Clermont-Tonnerre, Count Louis-René de Gramont, and Duke Agénor de Gramont, by Philip de László, 1902 Gramont Family Duchesse de Gramont, Armand duc de Guiche, and Corisande de Gramont, by Philip Alexius de László.jpg, Duchess Marguerite de Gramont, Armand, Duke of Guiche, and Corisande de Gramont, by Philip de László, 1902

Bibliography

* Jean de Jaurgain and Raymond Ritter, ''La maison de Gramont 1040-1967'', Les amis du musée pyrénéen, Tarbes (two volumes) (in French) * {{citation, last=Lewis , first=Warren Hamilton , author-link=Warren Lewis , date=1958 , title=Assault on Olympus - The rise of the House of Gramont between 1604 and 1678 , publisher=Harcourt, Brace & Co , publication-place=New York , url=https://archive.org/details/assaultonolympus0000lewi

References

External links

The Gramont in the History of Navarre
Surnames de:Herzöge von Gramont eu:Agramondar leinua

Notable members

Gallery

See also

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