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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.
The elder Lafayette said the gesture was "a tribute of respect and love for my dear friend." [ 3 ] From 1783, La Fayette grew up in the Hôtel de La Fayette at 183 rue de Bourbon, Paris.
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 ...
Recollections of the Private Life of General Lafayette: Embellished with Numerous Engravings as in the Original Paris Edition. Baldwin. p. 227. Crawford, Mary MacDermot (1907). Madame de Lafayette and Her Family. J. Pot & Company. pp. 11, 165– 166. Crawford, Mary MacDermot (1908). The Wife of Lafayette. E. Nash. p. 297. Griffith, Thomas ...
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 ...
Together, they were the parents of a son who was born at the château de Chavaniac, in Chavaniac-Lafayette, near Le Puy-en-Velay, in the province of Auvergne (now Haute-Loire): [8] [a] Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette (1757–1834), who played a significant role in the American and French Revolutions. [1]
In 1932, descendant René de Chambrun established his American citizenship based on the Maryland resolution, [11] [12] although he was probably ineligible for the distinction, as the inherited citizenship was likely only intended for direct descendants who were heir to Lafayette's estate and title. [13]
The Order of Lafayette is a fraternal organization of American military officers who served in France or French territory during World War I or World War II, as well as their descendants. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] It was established in New York City in 1958 by Colonel Hamilton Fish III (1888-1991), a former Congressman from New York and decorated veteran of ...