Erasmus-Henri de Contades

Erasmus-Henri de Contades
Marquis de Contades
Member of the Chamber of Deputies for Cantal
In office
20 November 1847 – 24 February 1848
Personal details
Born(1814-06-06)6 June 1814
Angers, Maine-et-Loire
Died24 February 1858(1858-02-24) (aged 43)
Paris
Spouse
Sophie de Castellane
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(after 1836)​
Parent(s)Marie-Henriette d'Oms
Gaspard de Contades
ResidenceChâteau de Montgeoffroy

Erasmus-Henri de Contades, Marquis de Contades (6 June 1814 – 24 February 1858) was a French diplomat and politician.

Early life

Contades was born on 6 June 1814 in Angers, the prefecture of the Maine-et-Loire department.[1] He was a son of Marie-Henriette d'Oms (1790–1858),[2] and Gaspard de Contades (1785–1817), a Senior Officer of Cuirassiers who died when he was only 31 years old.[1]

Through his grandfather, Erasmus-Gaspard de Contades, he was a descendant of Louis Georges Érasme de Contades, Marquis de Contades and Marshal of France. His maternal grandparents were Count Dominique-Hippolyte d'Oms and Aglaé Françoise de Castellane (daughter of François-Henri de Castellane, Marquis de Castellane).[3]

Career

After serving as an embassy attaché, he was elected on 20 November 1847 to the Chamber of Deputies, the lower house of the French Parliament, for Cantal.[4] The French Revolution of 1848, which led to the collapse of the July Monarchy and the foundation of the French Second Republic, ended his political career.[5]

Personal life

The family estate, Château de Montgeoffroy, 2007

On 27 June 1836, Contades married distant cousin Sophie de Castellane (1818–1904), a daughter of Count Boniface de Castellane and Louise Cordélia Greffulhe (younger sister of Jean-Henry-Louis Greffulhe).[6] Her brother, Henri de Castellane, married Pauline de Talleyrand-Périgord and her sister, Pauline de Castellane, married Max von Hatzfeld and, after his death, Louis de Talleyrand-Périgord.[6]

Contades died in Paris on 24 February 1858. After his death, his widow married Victor de Beaulaincourt, Comte de Beaulaincourt de Marles in 1859.[7]

References

  1. ^ a b Annuaire de la noblesse de France et des maisons souveraines de l'Europe (in French). Champion. 1854. pp. 201–203. Retrieved 30 March 2023.
  2. ^ Woelmont, Henri de baron (1923). Notices généalogiques (in French). Champion. p. 555. Retrieved 30 March 2023.
  3. ^ Capeille, Jean (1914). Dictionnaire de biographies rousillonnaises (in French). J. Comet. p. 421. Retrieved 30 March 2023.
  4. ^ Érasme-Henri de Contades, dans Adolphe Robert et Gaston Cougny, Dictionnaire des parlementaires français, Edgar Bourloton, 1889-1891.
  5. ^ Higgs, David (1 December 2019). Nobles in Nineteenth-Century France: The Practice of Inegalitarianism. JHU Press. pp. 11, 120, 351. ISBN 978-1-4214-3210-6. Retrieved 30 March 2023.
  6. ^ a b "Decease of an Old French Soldier". The New York Times. October 11, 1862. Retrieved 2015-01-03. One of the most eccentric military notabilities of the present epoch, the Marshal Count Castellane, has just died at Lyons.
  7. ^ Proust, Marcel; Carter, William C. (2018). The Guermantes Way: In Search of Lost Time. Yale University Press. p. 218. ISBN 978-0-300-18619-2. Retrieved 5 May 2020.