Charles Belgique Hollande de La Trémoïlle
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Charles Belgique Hollande de La Trémoïlle (May 1655 – 1 June 1709), 4th duc of Thouars, was a French nobleman. He was the second child and eldest son of Henri Charles de La Trémoille and Landgravine Emilie of Hesse-Kassel. Brought up Calvinist, in 1668 his father had converted to Catholicism and then forcibly converted his children as well. His mother and eldest sister fled to the Netherlands. In 1675 he married Madeleine de Créquy, daughter and heiress of Charles III de Créquy. The couple had two children, Charles and Marie.
Family
- His daughter Marie Armande Victoire de La Trémoille (1677–1717) married the Duke of Bouillon and had seven children;
- His son Charles Louis Bretagne de La Trémoille succeeded him as Duke of Thouars and Duke of La Trémoille; he married Marie-Madeleine Motier de La Fayette
Ancestors
Categories:
- 1655 births
- 1709 deaths
- Converts to Roman Catholicism from Calvinism
- French Roman Catholics
- Recipients of the Order of the Holy Spirit
- House of La Trémoille
- Dukes of Thouars
- 17th-century French people
- 18th-century French people
- People of Byzantine descent
- 17th-century peers of France
- 18th-century peers of France