Claude de La Trémoille
Claude de La Trémoille, 2nd Duke of Thouars (1566 – 25 October 1604) was a sixteenth-century French nobleman of the La Tremoille family.
He was the son of Louis III de La Trémoille and his wife, Jeanne de Montmorency.
King Henry IV of France had been friendly with La Trémoille when he was King of Navarre, but kept him in a subordinate position once he became King of France, preferring La Trémoille's cousin, Henry de La Tour d'Auvergne, the Viscount of Turenne.
In 1587, La Trémoille converted to Protestantism.
He fought for Henry IV at the battle of Coutras and also at Ivry, and was rewarded by elevation to the peerage, as Duke of Thouars, in 1595.
This new title, however, made La Trémoille lose more money than it earned him.
In 1598, Turenne proposed to his sister-in-law Charlotte-Brabantine to marry La Trémoille.
Thanks to her relations with the houses of Orange and Bouillon, Charlotte-Brabantine played an important part in the French Protestant diplomacy.
They had four children: Henry; Charlotte, who married James Stanley, Earl of Derby; Élisabeth (1601–1604); and Frédéric (1602–1642) comte de Laval.
In 1602, Charlotte-Brabantine dissuaded her husband from engaging in the conspiracy of Biron and encouraged him to lend allegiance to the king.
He died in 1604.
François II de La Trémoille
François de La Trémoille( 1505 – 1541) was a French nobleman of the La Tremoille family.
He was the son of Charles I de la Trémoille( killed in 1515 at the battle of Marignano) and of Louise de Coëtivy.
Charles Armand René de La Trémoille
Charles Armand René de La Trémoille (14 January 1708, in Paris – 23 May 1741),
6th duc de Thouars, was the son of Charles Louis Bretagne de La Trémoille and his wife, Marie Madeleine Motier de la Fayette.
La Trémoille was a French soldier and president of the States of Brittany.
He joined the military at a young age and became a colonel of the Champagne regiment at the age of eighteen.
Later, he became governor of Île-de-France.
He distinguished himself in the battle of Guastalla, in Italy, and was named shortly thereafter sergeant of the armies of the king.
La Trémoille was the author of some works and was elected a member of the Académie française on 13 February 1738.
On 29 January 1725 he married his cousin Marie Hortense de La Tour d'Auvergne, the daughter of Marie Armande Victoire de la Trémoïlle (1677–1717) and Emmanuel-Théodose de La Tour d'Auvergne, duc de Bouillon (1668–1730).
Marie Hortense, like her husband was a granddaughter of Charles Belgique Hollande de La Trémoille.
From this union was born a son:
Jean Bretagne Charles de La Trémoille and a daughter who died in infancy.
Charles Louis Bretagne de La Trémoille
Charles Louis Bretagne de La Trémoille (15 March 1683 – 9 October 1719), 6th duke of Thouars, was the son of Charles Belgique Hollande de La Trémoille and Madeleine de Créquy, daughter and heiress of Charles III de Créquy.
He became duke of Thouars upon his father's death in 1709.
He was also count of Laval and Montfort and inherited the ancient French claim to the Kingdom of Naples.
The Neapolitan claim gave the family the rank of "princes étrangers" at the French court.
The Duke made a career in the military as well as at Versailles: he was brigadier of cavalry (January 1709), first gentleman of the King's chamber (June 1709), governor of Thouars (July 1709), and Maréchal de camp (February 1719).
His sister Marie Armande Victoire de La Trémoille married Emmanuel Théodose de La Tour d'Auvergne.
On 13 April 1706 he married Marie-Madeleine Motier de La Fayette (1691–1717), the daughter of Rene-Armand, marquis de La Fayette and Marie-Madeleine de Marillac, and granddaughter of the author Marie-Madeleine Pioche de la Vergne, comtesse de la Fayette.
They had one child, Charles Armand René de La Trémoille, born in 1708.
Henri de La Trémoille
Henri de La Trémoille (22 December 1598 – 21 January 1674) was the 3rd Duke of Thouars, 2nd Duke of La Tremoille, and Prince of Talmond and Taranto.
He was the son of Claude de La Trémoille and his wife, Charlotte Brabantina of Nassau, and a descendant of the medieval general Louis de La Trémoille.
Henri Charles de La Trémoille
Henri Charles de La Trémoille( 17 December 1620 – 14 September 1672) was a French military commander.
He the son of Henry de La Trémoille, duc of Thouars and of La Trémoille, and his wife, Marie de La Tour d'Auvergne.
In 1628, La Trémoille's father, Henri III of Trémoïlle, converted himself and his children to Catholicism, but La Trémoille's mother convinced him to reconvert to Protestantism when he reached the age of majority.
In 1638, he joined the army of his uncle, Frederick Henry, Prince of Orange.
In 1648, he married the Calvinist Émilie of Hesse- Kassel, the daughter of William V of Hesse- Kassel( or Hesse- Cassel).
They had five children, including Charles Belgique, his heir, and Charlotte Amélie de la Trémoille.
In October 1651, during the Fronde, he came out against Cardinal Mazarin and supported Condé openly.
As a result, in 1656 he was imprisoned in Amiens.
La Trémoille's mother obtained his release after several months of imprisonment.
He was then relegated in Poitou then turned over to serve in Holland.
In 1668, he returned from Holland to manage the affairs of the duchy of Thouars, his father being weakened by the gout, and he again re-converted to Catholicism, taking away the children from his wife who fled to the Netherlands.
He died two years before his father in 1672; it was thus his elder son, Charles, who succeeded as the fourth duke of Thouars.
Marie de La Tour d'Auvergne
Marie de La Tour d'Auvergne( 17 January
1601- 24 May 1665) was a French noblewoman.
As the wife of Henri de La Trémoille, she was Duchess of Thouars, Duchess of La Tremoille, and Princess of Talmond and Taranto.
Georges de La Trémoille
Georges de la Trémoille( c. 1382 – 6 May 1446) was Count de Guînes from 1398 to 1446 and Grand Chamberlain of France to King Charles VII of France.
He sought reconciliation between Philip, Duke of Burgundy and Charles VII during their estrangement in the latter part of the Hundred Years' War.
De la Trémoille was a political opponent of Arthur de Richemont within the French court.
Most historians take a poor view of his career, assessing that he placed personal advancement before the public interest, though the traditional historical interpretation of the Grand Chamberlain as Jeanne d' Arc's opponent has been revised.
La Trémoille was captured at Agincourt in 1415.
He regained his freedom shortly afterward and dedicated the rest of his career to court life and diplomacy.
He made an advantageous marriage to Joan II of Auvergne( 1378 – 1424), Countess of Auvergne and Boulogne( 1404 – 1424).
De la Trémoille served the Burgundian court for several years, then joined the Armagnac court of Charles VII.
La Trémoille became a royal favourite in 1427.
He gained the title of Grand Chamberlain and was instrumental in Constable de Richemont's expulsion from the court that same year.
Following Joan of Arc's successful campaign to Rheims for the coronation of Charles VII, la Trémoille delayed a march on Paris with fruitless peace negotiations.
He may have been responsible for the lack of royal support that doomed her military actions thereafter.
The historical consensus is that personal jealousies led him to undermine France's two best military commanders during a low point in the war.
In September 1432 he paid for Rodrigo de Villandrando and his routiers to hold Les Ponts- de- Cé against the assaults of Jean de Bueil.
That year de Richemont returned to court and imprisoned la Trémoille the following year.
Charles VII did not intervene.
His daughter Louise de la Trémoille( 1432 – 10 April 1474), Dame de Boussac, married Bertrand VI of Auvergne and had two children:
He also had descents by his two mistresses; by Marie Guypaude, a daughter Marguerite( x and a son Jean the" bastard of La Tremoïlle",( legitimated and ennobled in 1445), a large number of descendants); and by Marie La Championne, Jacques, the other" bastard of La Tremoïlle", legitimized in 1466.
Marie Charlotte de La Trémoille
Marie Charlotte de La Trémoille( 26 January 1632 – 24 August 1682). was a French noblewoman member of the House of La Trémoille and by marriage Duchess of Saxe- Jena.
Born in Thouars, she was the fifth of six children born from the marriage of Henri III de La Trémoille, 3rd Duke of Thouars, 2nd Duke of La Tremoille, Prince of Talmond and Taranto, and Marie de La Tour d'Auvergne.
Jean Bretagne Charles de La Trémoille
Prince Jean- Bretagne- Charles de La Trémoille( 5 February 1737 – 19 May 1792), 7th Duke of Thouars, was a French soldier and the son of Charles Armand René de La Trémoille and his wife, Marie Hortense de La Tour d'Auvergne of Bouillon.

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