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Henri de Saint-Nectaire

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French soldier and diplomat of the 18th century This article is about the ambassador the United Kingdom Henri de Saint-Nectaire (1667-1746). For Marshal of France Henri de Saint-Nectaire de La Ferté (1599–1681), see Henri de La Ferté-Senneterre.
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Henri, marquis de Saint-Nectaire (1667 – 1 April 1746) was a French nobleman, soldier and diplomat.

The Marquis de Saint-Nectaire was commissioned in the Senneterre Dragoons, advancing to the rank of Brigadier in 1704 and Maréchal de camp later the same year. He was promoted Lieutenant-General of the French Army in 1718, before being posted to London by King Louis XV, where he served as Ambassador to Great Britain until 1720; he was appointed Chevalier du Saint-Esprit in 1724.

Family

His father, Jean-Charles de Saint-Nectaire (1608–1696), styled comte de Brinon (who was the third son of Jacques de Saint-Nectaire, baron de La Grolière), married in 1654 Marguérite (died 1701), sole heiress of Timoléon de Boves, baron de Contenant; of their five children, two survived childhood: Henri, who inherited his father's ancestral titles and his sister Madeleine, who married Pierre-Gilbert Colbert, marquis de Villacerf.

Upon his death in 1746, he was succeeded by his cousin, Jean-Charles, as marquis de Saint-Nectaire.

See also

Notes

  1. "senneterre". jm.ouvrard.pagesperso-orange.fr.
  2. "Armory of the pre-1789 French Peerage". www.heraldica.org.
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