Charles Louis d'Albert de Luynes

Charles Louis d'Albert, 5th Duke of Luynes (Marie Charles Louis; 24 April 1717 – 8 October 1771) was a French nobleman and member of the House of Albert. He was the fifth Duke of Luynes as well as Duke of Chevreuse.

Early life 1722 portrait of Charles Louis d'Albert, Duke of Chevreuse (later Luynes) by Hyacinthe Rigaud. Luynes was born on 24 April 1717 in Paris at the Hôtel de Luynes on the rue Saint Dominique. He was the only child of Charles Philippe d'Albert de Luynes and his wife Louise Léontine de Bourbon, he was styled the duc de Chevreuse while his father was alive. Charles Louis was the titular Duke of Montfort. Through his mother, a granddaughter of Louis Henri de Bourbon who was an illegitimate son of the Count of Soissons, Charles Louis was also the claimant to the Principality of Neuchâtel in modern-day Switzerland.

Personal life The Duke married twice. His first marriage was to Thérèse Pélagie d'Albert on 22 January 1735; they had no issue.

After the death of his first wife, he married, secondly, to Henriette Nicole d'Egmont-Pignatelli on 27 April 1738 with whom he had three children with:

Charles Marie Léopold d'Albert, Count of Dunois (1740–1758), who died unmarried. Marie Paule Angélique d'Albert (1744–1781) married her cousin Louis Joseph d'Albert d'Ailly, 7th Duke of Chaulnes. Louis Joseph Charles Amable d'Albert, Duke of Luynes (1748–1807), who married Guyonne Élisabeth de Montmorency-Laval (aunt of Mathieu de Montmorency) and had issue.

He died in Paris in his hôtel. He was buried at the Chapelle de Saint Jean l'Évangeliste at the Église Saint-Sulpice, Paris.

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