Marguerite-Philippe du Cambout (1624 – 9 December 1674) was a French noblewoman.

Life

Marguerite du Cambout was born in 1624.Her parents were Charles du Cambout, Marquis of Coislin () and Philippe de Beurges, dame de Seury.Her father was Marquis of Coislin,

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and la Roche-Bernard, governor of the town and fortresses of Brest and lieutenant general of lower

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. He was from the old nobility of Brittany. Through her father she was the grand-niece of

Cardinal Richelieu Armand Jean du Plessis, 1st Duke of Richelieu (9 September 1585 – 4 December 1642), commonly known as Cardinal Richelieu, was a Catholic Church in France, French Catholic prelate and statesman who had an outsized influence in civil and religi ...

. In 1634 she was married to Antoine de l'Age (1605–35), Duke of Aiguilon, also called Duke of Pui-Laurent. In February 1639 she married Henri de Lorraine (1601–66), Count of Harcourt, Grand Écuyer de France.4. The same year her sister Gabrielle Marie married Bernard de Nogaret de La Valette d'Épernon.

Widowhood

Her husband was involved in political intrigues, and was imprisoned first in the

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in 1635, then in

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, where he died the same year.

Second marriage

In February 1639, she remarried Henri de Lorraine, and had six children.

Death

Marguerite du Cambout died of

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in Paris on 9 December 1674 at the age of 50. She was buried in the Eglise des Capucines on the Rue Saint-Honoré, Paris. Her half length portrait by Balthazar Moncornet (1598-1668), dated 1658, is held by the

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.In an oval border, it shows her upper body in an elaborate dress adorned with pearls and jewels, with a hunting scene in the background. There are four lines of verse below the portrait,

Children

Her children with Henri, Count of Harcourt were: * Armande Henriette de Lorraine-Guise (1640–1684), abbess of Soissons *

Louis, Count of Armagnac Louis of Lorraine (7 December 1641 – 13 June 1718) was the Count of Armagnac from his father's death in 1666. The ''Grand Squire of France'', he was a member of a cadet branch of the House of Guise, itself a cadet branch of the sovereign House ...

(1641–1718), called Monsieur le Grand, Grand Écuyer de France, Count of Charny and of Brionne * Philippe, Chevalier de Lorraine (1643–1702), Abbé of Saint Pierre in Chartres * Alfonse Louis (1644–1689), Abbé of Royaumont, called ''chevalier d'Harcourt'' * Raimond Bérenger (1647–1686), Abbé of Faron de Meaux * Charles, Count of Marsan (1648–1708)

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