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Gaston Jean Baptiste de Renty (born 1611 at the castle of Beni, Diocese of Bayeux in Normandy; died 24 April 1649) was a French aristocrat and philanthropist.He ruled the Company of the Blessed Sacrament between 1639 and 1649, and was under the influence of the French Oratorians, through his confessor Paul de Condren.
Gaston Jean Baptiste de Renty. It was founded in March 1630, at the Convent of the Capuchin friars on the rue du Faubourg Saint-Honoré by Henri de Levis, Duc de Ventadour, who had just escorted his wife to the Carmelite Convent; Henri de Pichery, officer of Louis XIII's household; Jacques Adhemar de Monteil de Grignan, a future bishop, and Philippe d'Angoumois, a Capuchin.
He remarried in 1611 with Susanne de Bassabat, with whom he had twelve children, among them Gaston-Jean-Baptiste de Roquelaure (1617–1683), his main heir. A celebrated wit, Gaston was created the first duke of Roquelaure and peer of France in 1652 [1] (although the peerage remained unregistered) and was appointed governor of Guyenne in 1679. [1
Gaston Jean Baptiste de Renty donated a statue which came to be referred to the "Little King of Grace". He then introduced Jean-Jacques Olier, founder of the Sulpicians, to Sister Margaret. [9] Olier then established the devotion to the Holy Infant at Saint-Sulpice, Paris.
Roquelaure was born in 1656 into a noble family originally from Armagnac. [1] He was the son of Gaston Jean Baptiste de Roquelaure (1615–1683), 1st Duke of Roquelaure, and Charlotte Marie de Daillon du Lude (d. 1657), who was the sister and heiress of Henry de Daillon, Duke of Lude.
Baron Gaston Jean Baptiste de Renty, French mystic. See also. Communes of the Calvados department; References This ...
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Monsieur Gaston, Duke of Orléans (Gaston Jean Baptiste; 24 April 1608 – 2 February 1660), was the third son of King Henry IV of France and his second wife, Marie de' Medici. As a son of the king, he was born a Fils de France. He later acquired the title Duke of Orléans, by which he was generally known during his adulthood.