Pierre d'Alcantara-Charles-Marie, prince d'Arenberg, duc d'Arenberg, (Paris 2 October 1790 – Brussels 27 September 1877). Pierre d'Alcantara Charles, was born on 2 October 1790 as 3rd son of

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. He entered into the service of France. He distinguished himself during the campaigns in Spain and followed the Emperor

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the

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, as an officer of ordinance. Made a peer of France on 25 November 1827, (Duke-Peer 1828) he became a naturalized French subject by order of King

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, 28 February 1828.Charles Emmanuel Joseph Poplimont (1863), ''La Belgique héraldique', Typ. de G. Adriaens, 1863.
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/ref> He was a member of the French Chamber of Peers. He founded a new branch of the

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and his descendants still bear his title.

Marriage and children

He married twice. The first marriage took place in Paris on 27 January 1829, to Alix Marie Charlotte de Talleyrand (born on 4 November 1808, died on 21 September 1842) and had four children. The second marriage was on June 19, 1860, to Caroline Léopoldine Jeanne, princesse de

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-Questenberg (1801-1875). His children were these: * Marie Nicolette (1830-1905), married Charles de Mérode, Marquis de Westerloo * Ernest Marie (1833-1837) * Louis Charles (1837-1870), murdered at St. Petersburg * Auguste-Louis-Albéric (1837-1924), married Jeanne Marie Louise de Greffulhe

References

1790 births 1877 deaths French military personnel of the Napoleonic Wars {{France-mil-bio-stub