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The fief La Fayette was raised to a marquisate by Letters patent in about 1690. [1]Brigadier des armées René-Armand Count and Marquis de La Fayette (1659–1694), son of Madame de La Fayette (1634–1693), and François Motier, comte de La Fayette (1616–1683), died on 12 September 1694 of an illness in Landau during the Nine Years' War.
Marie-Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert du Motier de La Fayette, Marquis de La Fayette [a] (French: [ʒilbɛʁ dy mɔtje maʁki d(ə) la fajɛt]; 6 September 1757 – 20 May 1834), known in the United States as Lafayette [a] (/ ˌ l ɑː f i ˈ ɛ t, ˌ l æ f-/ LA(H)F-ee-ET), was a French nobleman and military officer who volunteered to join the Continental Army, led by General George Washington ...
Adrienne de La Fayette. Marie Adrienne Françoise de Noailles, Marquise de La Fayette (2 November 1759 – 25 December 1807), was a French marchioness. She was the daughter of Jean de Noailles and Henriette Anne Louise d'Aguesseau. [1] In 1774, she married Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette, who left France in 1776 to volunteer in the ...
The Marquis de Lafayette made a triumphant return to Seacoast New Hampshire communities Sunday, Sept. 1, exactly 200 years after he last visited.
Musée Carnavalet. Georges Washington Louis Gilbert de La Fayette (24 December 1779 – 29 November 1849) was the son of Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette, the French officer and hero of the American Revolution, and Adrienne de La Fayette. He was named in honor of George Washington, under whom his father served in the Revolutionary War.
Descendants include direct lineage of the Marquis de Lafayette, through the wedding of Marie Henriette Hélène Marthe Tircuy de Corcelle (6 June 1832, Paris – 17 November 1902, Paris), granddaughter of Marie Antoinette Virginie du Motier de La Fayette, at the Église de la Madeleine in Paris, on 8 June 1859, with Charles Adolphe Pineton de Chambrun (10 August 1831, Marjevols – 13 ...
The Lafayette Trail, Inc. is a nonprofit organization with the mission to document, map, and mark Gen. Marquis de Lafayette's footsteps during his Farewell Tour of the United States in 1824 and 1825.
James Armistead Lafayette (born 1748 [1] or 1760 [2] – died 1830 [1] or 1832) [2] was an enslaved African American who served the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War under the Marquis de Lafayette, and later received a legislative emancipation. [3][4] As a double agent, he reported the activities of Benedict Arnold after he ...