Charles Emmanuel-Sigismont de Montmorency-Luxembourg

Son of Anne-Charles-Sizhismont de Montmorency-Luxembourg and Madeleine Susanne Adelaide de Voyer de Polmi d'Arganson.

During the revolution, he was a camp adjutant with his father, emigrated with him, served in the army of princes. In 1793 he left for Portugal, where he commanded the Red Cavalry (Evora regiment), and as such was at the forefront of the Portuguese army in the 1801 campaign .

He returned to France during the Restoration , June 4, 1814 became a peer, on June 27 he was granted the Knights of the Order of St. Louis , on August 8 he was promoted to camp marshal , appointed captain of the third company of bodyguards of the king. In the same year he became a holder of the orders of the Legion of Honor and St. John of Jerusalem. After Napoleon returned, he accompanied Louis XVIII , who fled to Ghent . At the Second Restoration on September 15, 1815 he became lieutenant general.

In December 1815 he voted for the execution of Marshal Ney . On December 5, he was appointed ambassador extraordinary to the court of the Portuguese king in Brazil, arrived in Rio de Janeiro on May 31, 1816, and went back in November.

September 30, 1820 was granted the knights of the Order of the Holy Spirit .

In 1823 he participated in the French intervention in Spain , and after the capture of Trocadero received the officer cross of the Legion of Honor (08.19.1823) and the command of one of the four companies of Charles X bodyguards.

At the coronation ceremony of the last king of France and Navarre, he was one of the four bearers of gifts, and held golden bread. After the July Revolution in July-August 1830 he stayed with Charles X, with whom he went from Cherbourg to England.

He refused to take the oath to Louis Philippe , was expelled from the House of Peers, and spent the rest of his life as a private person in his castle in Chatillon-sur-Louvain. In 1847 he married Carolyn Luayot (d. 1868 in Chatillon-sur-Louvain). There were no children in this marriage, the Montmorency-Butville-Chatillon line was cut short, and the title of Duke de Pine-Luxembourg passed to Ann-Edouard-Louis-Joseph-de-Montmorency from the line of the Dukes de Beaumont, but he did not claim it.

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