Monluc
Monluc, or Montluc, the name of a French family. It stemmed from the house of Lasseran-Mansencomme, which possessed the estate of Monluc in Agenais, and whose last heiress, Gersende, married a cadet from the House of Montesquiou. All its male members died at war in the lapse of a single decade and the name disappeared in the early 17th century.
Lineage
- Blaise de Montesquiou de Lasseran-Massencôme, seigneur de Montluc (d. 1577), Marshal, author of the Commentaires
- Pierre Bertrand, called the Capitaine Peyrot, who perished in an expedition to Madeira in 1566,
- Fabien de Monluc
- Jean de Monluc (?-1579), the marshal's brother, bishop and ambassador
- Jean de Monluc de Balagny (d. 1603), seigneur de Balagny, the bishop's natural son, Marshal.
References
- This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "article name needed". Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press.
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