Antoine-François, marquis de Lambertye

Charles-François-Antoine, marquis de Lambertie (22 October 1708, Lunéville – 9 February 1777, Cons-la-Grandville) was a French aristocrat of the Ancien régime.^[1]

Château de Cons-la-Grandville

Career

Lambertie served as an officer in the Royal Regiment of Guards becoming Lieutenant-Colonel, as well as serving King Louis XV as a diplomatic envoy to London.

He was appointed a Knight of the Order of the Holy Spirit and of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta.

In 1760 , he wrote a book on his travels in the Carabbean : Histoire des Caraïbes: Nation Sauvage qui habite les Isles du Vent en Amérique et partie de la Terre ferme ou continent.^[2]

Family

He succeeded his father, who had been created a Marquis in 1719 (Nicolas-François, a Lieutenant-General of the French Army^[3]) in the family titles, including Count de Cons-la-Grandville, Baron de Bioncourt, Seigneur de Chenières, de Villers-la-Chèvre, de Cônes, Flaubeville, de Cutry, du Grand et Petit-Failly, etc.

The Marquis of Lambertie married three times:

• 1. (1736) Marie-Anne-Françoise-Xavière de Custine (died 1739, in childbirth), daughter and sole heiress of Charles-Ferdinand, comte de Wiltz.^[4]
• 2. (1758) Dame Antoinette de Vaux.
• 3. (1771) Marie-Françoise Louvain de Fontaines.

His nephew was Camille Joseph Graf Lambertie, a confidant of Francis II, Holy Roman Emperor.

See also

• List of Ambassadors of France to the United Kingdom