Emmanuel d'Albert, 11th Duke of Chaulnes explained

Emmanuel d'Albert
11th Duke of Chaulnes
Other Titles:Duke of Picquigny, Marquis of Dangeau
Full Name:Emmanuel Théodore Bernard Marie d'Albert
Birth Date:10 April 1878
Birth Place:Paris, France
Death Place:Paris, France
Mother:Princess Sophie Galitzine
Father:Paul d'Albert, 10th Duke of Chaulnes
Issue:Emmanuel d'Albert

Emmanuel d'Albert, 11th Duke of Chaulnes (Emmanuel Théodore Bernard Marie; 10 April 1878 – 24 April 1908) was a French nobleman.

Early life

Born in Paris on 10 April 1878. He was the eldest son of Princess Sophie Galitzine (1858–1883), and Paul d'Albert, 10th Duke of Chaulnes and Picquigny (1852–1881), who both died young.[1] His sister, Marie Thérèse d'Albert de Luynes,[2] was married in 1894 to Louis de Crussol d'Uzès, 14th Duke of Uzès (a son of the 12th Duke of Uzès and Anne de Rochechouart de Mortemart).[3] After the early death of both of his parents, Emmanuel and his sister were brought up in the home of their aunt, Yolande the dowager Duchess of Luynes.

His father became the Duke of Chaulnes, because his father (Emmanuel's grandfather), Honoré-Louis d'Albert de Luynes, Duke of Chevreuse, predeceased his grandfather (Emmanuel's great-grandfather), Honoré Théodoric d'Albert de Luynes, 8th Duke of Luynes, of Chevreuse and of Chaulnes.[4] [5] His aunt, Marie Julie d'Albert de Luynes, was the wife of Elzéar de Sabran-Pontevès, 3rd Duke of Sabran, and his uncle was Charles Honoré Emmanuel d'Albert de Luynes, 9th Duke of Luynes (husband of Yolande de La Rochefoucauld). His maternal grandparents were Augustin Petrovitch, Prince Galitzine (son of Prince Pyotr Alexeyevich Golitsyn)[6] [7] and Stéphanie Marie Bernadette Louise de la Roche Aymon (a daughter of Antoine de La Roche-Aymon, Marquis de La Roche-Aymon and Marie Louise Vallet de Villeneuve), who owned the Château de Châtain in Arfeuille-Châtain.[8]

Career

Upon his father's early death in 1881, three year old Emmanuel became the Duke of Chaulnes and Picquigny. He also used the courtesy title of Marquis of Dangeau.

The Duke was "a familiar figure in sporting circles" and was "well known for his interest in athletics and all forms or outdoor diversion." He was a member of the Cercle de la Rue Royale (a venue for idling, smoking cigars, discussing politics and the stock market), Cercle Hoche, and of the Société Sportive de l'Ile de Puteaux.

Personal life

According to a 1907 profile in The New York Times, the Duke of Chaulnes was "good looking, amiable, well educated, and possessed of charming manners." He had a house in the 8th arrondissement of Paris (in Avenue Van-Dyck in the Parc Monceau quarter) and a hereditary château in the French department of Sarthe,[9] but his income was small and it was reportedly well known in Paris that "for years he has been seeking a rich, American wife."[10]

In 1902, his engagement was announced to American heiress Ena Gebhard, a daughter of prominent merchant William H. Gebhard. She had been living in Paris for a number of years.[11] Ena was a cousin of Frederick Gebhard and Isabelle Gebhard Neilson (mother of Cathleen Gebhard Neilson, wife of Reginald Claypoole Vanderbilt).[12] [13] The engagement was broken off before they married however.[14]

In 1906, another engagement to an American heiress was announced, this time to Theodora Mary Shonts (1882–1966) of New York City. She was the youngest daughter of Theodore Perry Shonts,[15] the President of the Panama Canal Commission who was then living at 1526 New Hampshire Avenue in Washington, D.C.[16] They married on 16 February 1908 at 132 East 35th Street, the home of the bride's father in New York City.[17] [18] [19] Less than three months after they married, the Duke died. Theodora gave birth to their son in November of the same year:[20]

Tragically, like his grandfather and father before him, the Duke of Chaulnes died young with all three men dying at or around thirty years old. Emmanuel died from heart failure (reportedly due in part to an addiction to morphine pills), in the arms of his wife, on 24 April 1908 in his apartment in the Hotel Langham in the Rue du Boccador in Paris.[21] The Duke was interred at his family's estate, Château de Dampierre,[22] where Theodora spent the beginning of her widowhood.[23] His widow lived another fifty-eight years until her death on 19 October 1966.[24] [25]

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  1. Web site: Maison d'Albert de Luynes . www.europeanheraldry.org . European Heraldry . 10 November 2020 . 27 February 2021 . https://web.archive.org/web/20210227220845/https://europeanheraldry.org/france/families/maison-dalbert-de-luynes/ . dead .
  2. Book: Morenas . Henri Jougla de . Grand armorial de France: catalogue général des armoiries des familles nobles de France. ... . 1934 . Les éditions héraldiques . 138–139 . 11 November 2020 . fr.
  3. Web site: The House of Crussol - Chateau du Duché d'Uzès entre mer et Cévennes. Cité médiévale, le Duché (XIème - XVIIIème siècle) propose une étonnante promenade dans l'Histoire Uzès,Povence,Chateau, Duc de Crussol, Duché, Ducale, Gard, Pont du Gard, vin, cave à vin . www.uzes.com . Le Duché . 27 June 2020.
  4. Book: père) . Anselme (de Sainte Marie . Histoire généalogique et chronologique de la Maison royale de France: des pairs, grands officiers de la couronne et de la maison du roy, et des anciens barons du royaume ... . 1868 . Editions du Palais Royal . 11 November 2020 . fr.
  5. Book: Sereville . E. de . Simon . F. de Saint . Dictionnaire de la noblesse française . 1975 . la Société française au XX- siècle . 103 . 11 November 2020 . fr.
  6. Book: Golitsyn . Prince Augustin Petrovitch . Le Saint-Siège et la Russie. . 1864 . A.-L. Hérold . 12 November 2020 . fr.
  7. Book: Golitsyn . Prince Augustin Petrovitch . Mme Potemkin, née princesse Galitzin. . 1870 . S. Raçon . 12 November 2020 . fr.
  8. Book: Lemaître . Maurice . Journal d'un militant . 1982 . Maurice Lemaître . 978-2-904019-00-5 . 13 . 12 November 2020 . fr.
  9. News: Times . Special to The New York . MISS SHONTS MAY WED FRENCH DUKE; Her Father Might Consent to Arrange the Customary Settlement. A QUESTION Of HAPPINESS Miss Shonts and Her Mother Show Favor to Titled Suitor -- Duchess May Visit Them. . 10 November 2020 . . 25 March 1907.
  10. News: Plenty of Romance in the Story of the Next American Duchess; Long Ago Miss Shonts Predicted What is to Happen, While the Duc de Chaulnes Is Rapidly Becoming an American. . 12 November 2020 . . 24 November 1907.
  11. News: TO MARRY A FRENCH DUKE; Daughter of William Gebhard Engaged to the Due de Chaulnes et de Picquigny. . 10 November 2020 . . 21 March 1902.
  12. News: Times . Special to The New York . REGINALD VANDERBILT TO WED MISS NEILSON; Formal Announcement of Their Engagement Made. The Young Couple the Recipients of Congratulations at Newport -- Sketches of Their Ancestry -- Their Romantic Courtship. . 12 November 2020 . . 5 August 1902.
  13. News: William H. Gebhard. . 12 November 2020 . . 26 May 1905.
  14. News: American Heiresses Be Warned! PUCK Waxes Lyrical Over The Downsides Of An International Match Of Cash For Coronets! . 12 November 2020 . The Esoteric Curiosa . 23 February 2013 . en.
  15. News: SHONTS WILL PROBATED.; Testament Similar to That Admitted Here Accepted in Chicago. (Published 1921) . 12 November 2020 . . 3 September 1921.
  16. News: Cablegram . Special . MISS THEODORA SHONTS WILL BE A DUCHESS; Her Engagement to Duc de Chaulnes Announced. ROMANCE BEGAN IN FRANCE The Bride-to-Be Is the Youngest Daughter of the President of the Panama Canal Commission. . 10 November 2020 . . 28 November 1906.
  17. News: SHONTS WEDDING PLANS.; Miss Shonts's Marriage to the Duc de Chaulnes to Take Place at Noon Feb. 15. (Published 1908) . 12 November 2020 . . 1 February 1908.
  18. News: MISS SHONTS IS BRIDE OF FRENCH DUKE . 12 November 2020 . . 137 . 16 February 1908. 35.
  19. News: MISS SHONTS BRIDE OF DUC DE CHAULNES; Marriage Ceremony Performed After the French Fashion Before Hundreds of Guests. ONE UNTOWARD INCIDENT Party of Wedding Guests Held Up Between Floors for Fifteen Minutes In the Elevator. MISS SHONTS BRIDE OF DUC DE CHAULNES (Published 1908) . 12 November 2020 . . 16 February 1908.
  20. News: TIMES . Special Cable to THE NEW YORK . SHONTS OVERJOYED AT BIRTH OF DUKE; Dances About with Duchesse d'Uzes -- French Relations in Nobility Are Also Happy. BOY IS NAMED FOR FATHER Eleven Members of the Shonts Family in Paris -- Every Courtesy Shown by de Chaulnes's Relatives. . 12 November 2020 . . 18 November 1908.
  21. News: Duc de Chaulnes Dies in Arms of Wife . 10 November 2020 . . 147 . 25 April 1908. 103.
  22. News: Duc de Chaulnes Buried. . 12 November 2020 . . 29 April 1908.
  23. News: HEIR TO DUC DE CHAULNES; Son Born to Widowed Duchess, Daughter of Theodore Shonts. . 12 November 2020 . . 17 November 1908.
  24. Web site: Généalogie des familles nobles ALBERT de LUYNES . jean.gallian.free.fr . 12 November 2020 . 2007.
  25. News: TIMES . Special Cable to THE NEW YORK . NOT ENGAGED TO MURAT.; Duchess de Chaulnes Says She Does Not Know Prince. . 12 November 2020 . . 17 July 1909.

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