Gabriel de Rochechouart de Mortemart
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Gabriel in old age
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| Spouse(s) | Diane de Grandseigne |
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Issue
Gabrielle, Marchioness of Thianges
Louis Victor, Duke of Mortemart Françoise, Marchioness of Montespan Marie Christine de Rochechouart de Mortemart Marie Madeleine, Abbess of Fontevraud |
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Full name
Gabriel de Rochechouart de Mortemart
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| Noble family | House of Rochechouart |
| Father | Gaspard de Rochechouart |
| Mother | Louise de Maure |
| Born | 1600 |
| Died | 26 December 1675 Paris, France |
Gabriel de Rochechouart de Mortemart, Duke of Mortemart (1600 – 26 December 1675) was a French nobleman and father of the Marquise de Montespan. He was a friend of the French King Louis XIII.
Through Madame de Montespan, he is an ancestor of Philippe Égalité, Louis-Philippe I, and Prince Henri, Count of Paris, the present Orléanist pretender to the French throne. He is also an ancestor of Juan Carlos I of Spain, Albert II, King of the Belgians, Henri, Grand Duke of Luxembourg and Vittorio Emanuele, Prince of Naples, the pretender to the Italian throne.
Gabriel de Rochechouart de Mortemart, was the son of Gaspard de Rochechouart de Mortemart, Marquis of Mortemart, and of Louise de Maure, suo jure Countess of Maure. His younger brother, Louis de Rochechouart de Mortemart, died without children in 1669.
He spent a great part of his childhood with the future king of France Louis XIII, until the assassination of the latter's father, Henry IV, in 1610. In 1630, he was named the First Gentleman of the Chamber to Louis XIII, which entitled him to a pension of 6000 livres. He also maintained the confidence of the powerful Cardinal Richelieu and was an intimate of the Spanish-born queen, Anne of Austria.
He and his some of his descendants cultivated what became known as the esprit Mortemart, a particular type of wit which allowed impossible things to be said.
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