Pierre de Villars
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Pierre de Villars (1623, Paris - 20 March 1698, Paris), known by courtesy as the Marquis de Villars, was a French diplomat and Councillor of State.
He was the son of Claude de Villars, mestre de camp and gentleman of the King's bedchamber, and of his wife Charlotte Louvet de Nogaret-Calvisson, and grandson of René of Savoy, known as the Bastard of Savoy (Bâtard de Savoie), and thus (illegitimately) the great-grandson of Philip II, Duke of Savoy.[1]
He was married to Marie Gigault de Bellefonds and they had two sons, Armand (died 1712) and Claude-Louis-Hector (1653–1734) who inherited his father's title, Marquis de Villars.[2]
Between 1679 and 1681, Villars and his wife were assigned to the royal court in Madrid to represent French King Louis XIV to Spanish King Charles II and his new French-born wife: Marie Louise d'Orléans, the young and beautiful niece of Louis XIV.[3]
References
- ^ Ferdinand Hoefer, Nouvelle Biographie générale, t. 45, Paris, Firmin-Didot, 1866, pp. 166-7
- ^ Hester, Nathalie. Letters from Spain, A SEVENTEENTH-CENTURY FRENCH NOBLEWOMAN AT THE SPANISH ROYAL COURT. The Other Voice in Early Modern Europe: The Toronto Series. University of Chicago Press.
- ^ Borgognoni, Ezequiel (2020-06-24). "Marie Gigault de Bellefonds, Ambassadress of France. Gender, Power and Diplomacy at the Court of Charles Ii of Spain, 1679-1681". Librosdelacorte.es (20): 7–30. doi:10.15366/ldc2020.12.20.001. hdl:10115/30908. ISSN 1989-6425.
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- (in French) Ferdinand Hoefer, Nouvelle Biographie générale, t. 45, Paris, Firmin-Didot, 1866, p. 166-7
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- 1623 births
- 1698 deaths
- 17th-century French diplomats
- Marquesses of Villars
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- Ambassadors of France to Spain