Charles Marie d'Albert de Luynes


Charles Marie Paul André d'Albert, 7th Duke of Luynes was a French aristocrat and politician.

Early life

He was the only son of Louis Joseph d'Albert de Luynes, 6th Duke of Luynes, and Guionne Élisabeth Joséphine de Montmorency-Laval, a Dame du Palais of Queen Marie Antoinette. His sister was Pauline Hortense d'Albert de Luynes.
His maternal grandfather was Guy André Pierre de Montmorency-Laval, 1st Duke of Laval. His paternal grandparents were Charles Louis d'Albert, 5th Duke of Luynes, and Henriette Nicole d'Egmont-Pignatelli. Among his extended family were his aunt, Marie Paule Angélique d'Albert, and his niece, Elisabeth-Hélène-Pierre de Montmorency Laval.

Career

In 1792, upon the death of Louis Joseph d'Albert, 6th Duke of Chaulnes, he inherited the dukedom of Chaulnes, from a distant cousin of a cadet branch of the d'Albert family, becoming the 7th Duke of Chaulnes. Upon the death of his father in 1807, he inherited the dukedoms of Luynes and Chevreuse
During the First Restoration, he was a member of the Chamber of Peers, serving from 1814 to 1815, then again from 1815 to 1817. He was Duke-Peer of France from 1817 to 1830, under the Second Bourbon Restoration.

Personal life

On 24 February 1800, he Duke married Françoise Marie Félicité Ermesinde du Pelet de Narbonne-Fritzlar, a daughter of Count Francois-Bernard de Narbonne de Pelet and Adelaide Le Contede Nonant de Pierrecourt. Marie served as a Dame du Palais to Empress Joséphine before her premature death in Lyon in 1813. Together, they were the parents of:
The Duke died on 20 March 1839 and was succeeded in his dukedoms by his son, Honoré, who used the Duke of Luynes title and the Duke of Chaulnes as a courtesy title.