Duc de Beaumont explained

Duc de Beaumont
Creation Date:1765
Creation:1st Creation
First Holder:Charles-François-Christian de Montmorency-Luxembourg
Last Holder:Anne Edouard Louis Joseph de Montmorency-Luxembourg
Remainder To:The grantee's heirs males of the body
Subsidiary Titles:Prince de Tingry
Comte de Luwe
Status:Extinct
Extinction Date:1878

Duc de Beaumont is an extinct title of nobility in the peerage of France which was created by letters patent in 1765 for French Royal Army officer Charles-François-Christian de Montmorency-Beaumont-Luxembourg.

History

The lordship of Beaumont-du-Gâtinais in the Île-de-France, was raised to County for Achille de Harlay, a prominent judge and Premier President of the Parlement of Paris. The title went extinct in 1717 with his great-grandson, another Achille de Harlay, but the lands themselves were inherited by the latter's daughter, wife of the Marhall of Montmorency (third son of the Duke of Luxembourg).

The Beaumont title was resurrected as a Dukedom for their son Charles-François-Christian de Montmorency-Luxembourg, a general in the French Army. It was a "simple dukedom", meaning his holder was not a Peer of France. It became extinct on the death of the grantee's grandson Anne-Édouard-Louis-Joseph de Montmorency-Beaumont-Luxembourg, in 1878.

Counts of Beaumont (1612)

Ducs de Beaumont (1765)

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