Emmanuel I de Crussol

Emmanuel de Crussol, 3rd Duke of Uzès (31 July 1570 – 19 July 1657), was a French soldier and courtier.

Early life Crussol was born on 31 July 1570 in Paris. He was the eldest son of Jacques de Crussol, 2nd Duke of Uzès, and Françoise de Clermont-Tonnerre (1550–1594). His father had inherited the barony of Acier from his mother, before inheriting the dukedom from his elder brother, Antoine de Crussol, 1st Duke of Uzès. Among his younger sisters were Louise de Crussol (who married the Baron of Rieux in 1590), Marie de Crussol (who married the Count of Rochefort in 1590), and Diane de Crussol (who married the Baron of Tor in 1594).

François de Crussol (1604–1680), who married Louise Henriette de La Châtre, Baroness de Maisonfort, a granddaughter of Claude de La Châtre, Baron de Maisonfort, in 1625. The widow of François de Valois d'Angoulême, Count d'Alais (son of Charles de Valois, Duke of Angoulême, himself an illegitimate son of King Charles IX), they divorced and she married Claude Pot de Rhodes, the Grand Master of Ceremonies of France, in 1633, and he married Marguerite d'Apchier, Countess of Vazeilles, daughter of Christophe, Count d'Apchier, and Marguerite de Flagheac. Jacques Christophe de Crussol (–1680), who owned the Hôtel de Crussol and founded the Marquis of Saint-Sulpice branch (and was heir of his younger brother, Louis); he married Louise d'Amboise d'Aubijoux in 1637. Louis de Crussol (1610–1674), styled Marquis of Crussol, who became the Abbot of Figeac and Conques; he married Charlotte de Vernou Bonneuil in 1654. Louise de Crussol (d. 1695), who married Antoine Hercule de Budos, Marquis des Portes in 1627. After his death in 1629, she married Charles de Rouvroy, Marquis of Saint-Simon de Rasse (brother to Claude de Rouvroy, 1st Duke of Saint-Simon) in 1634.

After his first wife died in , he married Marguerite de Flagheac, the widow of Christophe, Count d'Apchier (parents of his eldest son's second wife), on 24 February 1632. She was the daughter of Pierre de Flagheac and Marguerite de Rostaing (Dame du Palais to Queen Catherine de' Medici). Together, they were the parents of:

Armand de Crussol (1634–1663), Count of Uzès, Marquis of Cuisieux, who was murdered in Osnabrück in 1663; he married Isabelle de Veyrac de Paulhan in 1654.

The Duke died at the Château de Florensac in Florensac on 19 July 1657. He was succeeded by his eldest son, François.