Henri Antoine Marie de Noailles, 11th Prince de Poix, 7th Duke of Mouchy (9 April 1890 – 1 November 1947) was a French nobleman.

Early life

The Duke was born in

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on 9 April 1890. He was the son of

François Joseph Eugène Napoléon de Noailles François () is a French masculine given name and surname, equivalent to the English name Francis. People with the given name * François Amoudruz (1926–2020), French resistance fighter * François-Marie Arouet (better known as Voltaire; ...

(1866–1900), Prince de Poix, and Madeleine Marie Isabelle Dubois de Courval (1870–1944). His brother was Count

Charles de Noailles Charles de Noailles or Arthur Anne Marie Charles, Vicomte de Noailles (26 September 1891 – 28 April 1981) was a French nobleman and patron of the arts. Biography Charles was born in Paris on 26 September 1891, the son of François Joseph Eug ...

(who married Marie-Laure Bischoffsheim) and his sister was Philippine de Noailles, who became Princess Eugène de Ligne upon her marriage to Eugène, 11th Prince of Ligne. His grandparents were the 6th Duke of Mouchy and the Duchess of Mouchy, who before her marriage was Princess Anna Murat (daughter of Prince

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, himself the second son of

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and his

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, sister of

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). Through his father, he was a descendant of Count

Philippe de Noailles Philippe de Noailles, comte de Noailles and later prince de Poix, duc de Mouchy, and duc de Poix ''à brevêt'' (27 December 1715 in Paris27 June 1794 in Paris), was a younger brother of Louis de Noailles, and a more distinguished soldier than his ...

who was born in 1715 and who married

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, the granddaughter of the Duke of d'Arpajon. His maternal grandparents were Vicomte Arthur Dubois de Courval and the former Mary Ray, who was born in

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and descended from

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James Boggs of

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and Thomas Cornell.

Career

From 1909, he became the 11th Prince de Poix following the death of his grandfather

Antonin-Just-Léon-Marie de Noailles Antoine Just Léon Marie de Noailles (19 April 1841 in Paris – 2 February 1909) 9th prince de Poix, from (1846) 6th duc espagnol de Mouchy, 5th duc français de Mouchy et duc de Poix, from 1854, was a French nobleman. Son of Charles-Philippe ...

(who predeceased Henri's father, who died in 1900). For his service in

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in France and on the Eastern front, the Duke of Mouchy was awarded a Chevalier of the

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and decorated with the

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. During the War, the

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was used by Marshal

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as his headquarters.

Personal life

On 22 July 1920, he was married to Marie de La Rochefoucauld (1901–1983). She was the second daughter of the president of the

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, Armand de La Rochefoucauld, Duke of Doudeauville (a descendant of

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) and Princess Louise Radziwiłł (a descendant of

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, and

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). Marie's siblings included Sosthène de La Rochefoucauld, and older sister, Hedwige de la Rochefoucauld, was married to

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. Together, they lived at the

and had three children: *

Philippe François Armand Marie de Noailles Philippe François Armand Marie de Noailles, Duc de Mouchy, Prince-Duc de Poix (17 April 1922 – 28 February 2011) was a cadet of the French ducal house of Noailles (created dukes and peers of France in 1663 by Louis XIV), and second in suc ...

(1922–2011), who married Diane de Castellane Fernández in 1948. They divorced in 1974 and he married Joan Douglas Dillon, the widow of Prince Charles of Luxembourg and the daughter of U.S. Secretary of Treasury C. Douglas Dillon, in 1978. * Philippine de Noailles (1925–2022), who married Jean-Louis Sébastien Hubert, marquis de Ganay (1922–2013) in 1946 and reside at the

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. * Sabine de Noailles (1931–2010), who married Nicolas Wyrubov (1915–2009) in 1953. The Prince died in Paris on 1 November 1947, and was succeeded in his titles by his son,

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Descendants

Through his son Philippe, he was the grandfather of Nathalie Marie Thérèse de Noailles (b. 1949), who married Christian Charles Meissirel-Marquot in 1981; Antoine Georges Marie de Noailles (b. 1950), who married Isabelle Marie Jeanne Hélène Frisch de Fels in 1980; and Alexis de Noailles (b. 1952) who married Princess Diane d'Orléans (a daughter of Prince Jacques, Duke of Orléans) in 2004. Through his daughter Philippine, he was the grandfather of Charlotte (born 1949), who married Charles de Marly, and Jacques (born 1956), who married Jacqueline Lomont (1966-1993).

References

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