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Duc de Mouchy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (304 words) |
 | The title of Duc de Mouchy was a French peerage held by members of a cadet branch of the Noailles family. |
| The founder of the branch, Philippe, comte de Noailles (1715-1794), was the younger brother of Louis, 4th duc de Noailles and a marshal of France. |
| He received the Spanish title of prince de Poix in 1729, and that of duc de Mouchy (also a Spanish title) in 1747, when on the birth of his first son the title of prince de Poix became a courtesy title held by the heir. |
| Crequy - LoveToKnow 1911 (1061 words) |
| de Blanchefort, marquis de Crequy, prince de Poix, duc de Lesdiguieres (1578-1638), marshal of France, son of the last-named, saw his first fighting before Laon in 1594, and was wounded at the capture of Saint Jean d'Angely in 1621. |
| de Crequy, seigneur de Canaples, was killed at the siege of Chambery in 1630, leaving three sons - Charles III., sieur de Blanchefort, prince de Poix, duc de Crequy (1623?-1687); Alphonse de Crequy, comte de Canaples (d. |
| The elder, Francois Joseph, marquis de Crequy (1662-1702), already held the grade of lieutenant-general when he was killed at Luzzara on the 13th of August 1702; and Nicolas Charles, sire de Crequy, was killed before Tournai in 1696 at the age of twenty-seven. |
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