Edmond de Talleyrand-Périgord

Edmond de Talleyrand-Périgord, 2nd Duke of Talleyrand, 2nd Duke of Dino (; 1 August 1787 – 14 May 1872), was a French general of the Napoleonic Wars.

Early life He was born in Paris, the son of Archambaud de Talleyrand-Périgord (1762–1838) and Madeleine Olivier de Senozan de Viriville (1764–1794), and was the nephew of the minister Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord (1754–1838), the 1st Duke of Dino.

Career In 1812, Edmond also received a regiment in Brescia (north Italy) from Talleyrand, and on 19 September 1813 was promoted to oberst. He served in the War of the Sixth Coalition, commanding three Chasseur regiments against Prussian major-general Leopold Wilhelm von Dobschütz (1763–1836) at the battle of Mühlberg in 1813, where he was captured. By October 1823 he had become lieutenant-general. Though Edmond was indifferent about the match, she was from German-Baltic nobility, as the illegitimate daughter of Count Alexander Batowski and Dorothea von Medem though her mother's husband, Peter von Biron, the last Duke of Courland, who acknowledged her as his own.

Napoléon Louis de Talleyrand-Périgord, 3rd Duke of Talleyrand, Duke of Valençay (1811–1898) Dorothée de Talleyrand-Périgord (1812–1814), who died young Alexandre Edmond de Talleyrand-Périgord (1813–1894), who married Marie Valentine Joséphine de Sainte-Aldegonde (1820–1891) Joséphine Pauline de Talleyrand-Périgord (1820–1890), who married Henri de Castellane (1814–1847).

Talleyrand died on 14 May 1872 in Florence, Italy, where he had lived for the past 40 years.