Godefroy de La Tour d'Auvergne

Godefroy de La Tour d'Auvergne (Godefroy Charles Henri; 26 January 1728, Paris – 3 December 1792) was a member of the House of La Tour d'Auvergne, the Sovereign Dukes of Bouillon. He was subsequently the penultimate Duke of Bouillon succeeding his father in 1771.

Biography

The youngest of two children, he was born to the Duke and Duchess of Bouillon in 1728. He had an older sister, Marie Louise (1725–1793) who later married the Prince of Guéméné.^[2]

Styled the Prince of Turenne as the heir apparent to Bouillon, he married Louise Henriette Gabrielle de Lorraine on 27 November 1743. She was a member of the house of Lorraine and a great grand daughter of Henri, Count of Harcourt. The couple had four children in all before Louise Henriette Gabrielle died in 1788; three children pre-deceased them. The widower Duke married again in 1789 to Marie Françoise Henriette de Banastre (1775–1816), a girl who was some forty-seven years younger than he. No children were produced from the marriage.^[2]

He served with distinction in the Seven Years' War. In 1748 he was made a maréchal de camp. He was elected to the Royal Academy of Sculpture and Painting in 1777. In just three months, he squandered almost a million livres on his mistress, an opera singer, thus bringing his family to the verge of ruin.

He died at the Château de Navarre on the eve of Revolution and was succeeded by his eldest son Jacques, who was an invalid. Jacques was the last Duke of Bouillon, the title being abolished during the French Revolution. The Princes of Guéméné today claim the Duchy of Bouillon as their own due to the marriage of Marie Louise (his only sibling) and Jules de Rohan, Prince of Guéméné. He has no known descendants.

Issue

Jacques Leopold Charles Godefroy de La Tour d'Auvergne (15 January 1746 – 7 February 1802) married Hedwig of Hesse-Rotenburg, grand daughter of Ernest Leopold of Hesse-Rotenburg and Eleonore of Löwenstein-Wertheim-Rochefort; no issue;
Charles Louis Godefroi de La Tour d'Auvergne, Prince of Auvergne (22 September 1749 – 23 October 1767) never married;
Louis Henri de La Tour d'Auvergne, Duke of Albret (20 February 1753 – 7 March 1753) died in infancy;
X de La Tour d'Auvergne (3 April 1756) stillborn daughter.^[2]

Gallery

Tombstone of his mother, Charlotte at the Saint Kazimierz Church in Warsaw
Louise de Lorraine, princesse de Turenne by Jean-Marc Nattier (1746)
Versailles, Musée national du Château et des Trianons
The Children of the Duke of Bouillon dressed as Montagnards^[1] by François-Hubert Drouais (1756)
Private collection

^ Jacques Leopold Charles Godefroy, prince de Bouillon, is shown playing a hurdy-gurdy, whilst his younger brother, Charles Louis Godefroy, prince d'Auvergne, is shown playing with a marmot on a ribbon.

Ancestry

Ancestors of Godefroy de La Tour d'Auvergne

16. Frédéric Maurice de La Tour d'Auvergne

8. Godefroy Maurice de La Tour d'Auvergne

17. Eleonora Catharina of the Bergh

4. Emmanuel Théodose de La Tour d'Auvergne

18. Lorenzo Mancini

9. Marie Anne Mancini

19. Geronima Mazzarini

2. Charles Godefroy de La Tour d'Auvergne

20. Henry Charles de La Trémoille

10. Charles Belgique Hollande de La Trémoille

21. Émilie of Hesse-Kassel

5. Marie Armande Victoire de La Trémouille

22. Claude, Duke of Créquy

11. Madeleine de Créquy

23. Anne Armande de Saint-Gelais

1. Godefroy de La Tour d'Auvergne

24. Jakub Sobieski

12. John III Sobieski

25. Zofia Teofillia Daniłowicz

6. Jakub Ludwik Sobieski

26. Henri Albert de La Grange d'Arquien

13. Marie Casimire Louise de La Grange d'Arquien

27. Françoise de La Châtre

3. Maria Karolina Sobieska

28. Wolfgang Wilhelm, Count Palatine of Neuburg

14. Philipp Wilhelm, Elector Palatine

29. Magdalene of Bavaria

7. Countess Palatine Hedwig Elisabeth Amelia of Neuburg

30. George II, Landgrave of Hesse-Darmstadt

15. Landgravine Elisabeth Amalie of Hesse-Darmstadt

31. Sophia Eleonore of Saxony

Titles, styles, honours and arms

Titles and styles

26 January 1728 – 24 October 1771 His Highness the Prince of Turenne
24 October 1771 – 3 December 1792 His Highness the Duke of Bouillon

References and notes

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1 2 3 van de Pas, Leo. "Godefory Charles Henri de La Tour d'Auvergne". Genealogics .org. Retrieved 2010-03-29.

Princes of Bouillon

The generations start from the Henri de La Tour d'Auvergne, first sovereign Duke of Bouillon

1st Generation	Frédéric Maurice, Duke of Bouillon Henri, Viscount of Turenne

2nd Generation	Godefroy Maurice, Duke of Bouillon Frédérique Maurice, Count of Auvergne Emmanuel Théodose, Cardinal de Bouillon

3rd Generation	Louis Charles, Prince of Turenne Emmanuel Theodose, Duke of Bouillon Eugene Maurice, Prince of Château-Thierry Frédéric Jules, Prince of Auvergne Louis Henri, Count of Évreux Frédéric Godefroy, Marquis of Berg Emmanuel Maurice, Le Bailly d'Auvergne Henri Oswald, Cardinal, Archbishop of Vienne François, Prince of Limeuil Louis Frédéric François Egon, Count of Auvergne Frédéric Constantin, Count of Oliergues

4th Generation	Godefroy Maurice, Prince of Turenne Frédéric Maurice Casimir, Prince of Turenne Charles Godefroy, Duke of Bouillon Godefroy Girault, Duke of Château-Thierry

5th Generation	Godefroy, Duke of Bouillon

6th Generation	Jacques Léopold, Duke of Bouillon Charles Louis Godefroi, Prince of Auvergne Louis Henri, Duke of Albret

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