Honoré Louis Joseph d'Albert de Luynes

Honoré-Louis d'Albert de Luynes (3 February 1823 – 9 January 1854), styled Duke of Chevreuse, was a French nobleman.

Early life

He was the only child of Honoré Théodoric d'Albert de Luynes, 8th Duke of Luynes, and Marie Françoise Dauvet de Maineville, who were married from 1822 until her death on 23 July 1824. After his mother's death, his father married Jeanne d'Amys de Ponceau. His father was a prominent writer on archaeology who is most remembered for the collection of exhibits he gave to the Cabinet des Médailles, and for supporting the exiled Comte de Chambord's claim to the throne of France.

His father was the eldest son of Charles Marie d'Albert, 7th Duke of Luynes (a grandson of Guy André Pierre de Montmorency-Laval, 1st Duke of Laval) and Françoise Ermessinde de Narbonne-Pelet. His maternal grandparents were Gabriel-Nicolas Dauvet, Marquis de Maineville, and Marie-Françoise Vachon de Belmont-Briançon.

Career As the eldest, and only, son of the Duke of Luynes, who also held the dukedoms of Chevreuse and Chaulnes, Honoré-Louis used the title Duke of Chevreuse. Luynes married Valentine-Julie de Contades (1824–1900), a daughter of French cavalry officer Jules Gaspard Amour de Contades, Viscount de Contades (son of François-Jules de Contades) and Gabrielle Adèle Alexandrine Amys du Ponceau. Together, they were the parents of:

Marie Julie d'Albert de Luynes (1844–1865), who married Elzéar Charles Antoine de Sabran-Pontevès, 3rd Duke of Sabran, in 1863. Charles Honoré Emmanuel d'Albert de Luynes, 9th Duke of Luynes (1846–1870), who married Yolande de La Rochefoucauld, a daughter of Sosthène II de La Rochefoucauld, 4th Duke of Doudeauville and Princess Yolande de Polignac (a daughter of Prince Jules de Polignac, the 7th Prime Minister of France), in 1867. Paul Marie Stanislas Honoré d'Albert de Luynes, 10th Duke of Chaulnes and Picquigny (1852–1881), who married Princess Sophie Golitsyn, a daughter of Prince Augustin Golitsyn and granddaughter of Prince Pyotr Alexeyevich Golitsyn, in 1875.

The Duke of Chevreuse died on 9 January 1854, His widow outlived him and all three of their children before her death in 1900. a daughter of Emmanuel de Crussol, 12th Duke of Uzès and Anne de Rochechouart de Mortemart (who inherited a large fortune from her great-grandmother, Madame Clicquot Ponsardin, founder of Veuve Clicquot).

Through his second son, he was posthumously a grandfather of Thérèse d'Albert de Luynes (1876–1941), who married Louis de Crussol d'Uzès, 14th Duke of Uzès (the younger brother of his cousin Honoré's wife), and Emmanuel d'Albert de Luynes, Duke of Chaulnes and Picquigny (1878–1908), who married American heiress Theodora Mary Shonts, a daughter of railroad executive Theodore P. Shonts.