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  2. Adrienne de La Fayette - Wikipedia

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    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 ]

  3. Michel du Motier, Marquis de La Fayette - Wikipedia

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    Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette (1757–1834), who played a significant role in the American and French Revolutions. [ 1 ] He fought during the Seven Years' War against the British and was killed in battle by British cannon fire. [ 9 ]

  4. Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  5. Marquis de Lafayette still 'rock star' of American revolution ...

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    The Marquis de Lafayette made a triumphant return to Seacoast New Hampshire communities Sunday, Sept. 1, exactly 200 years after he last visited.

  6. House of La Fayette - Wikipedia

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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.

  7. Georges Washington de La Fayette - Wikipedia

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    Zoom-in of The oath of La Fayette at the Fête de la Fédération showing young Georges Washington de La Fayette. 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.

  8. Gilbert Motier de La Fayette - Wikipedia

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    His mother was Marguerite Catherine Brun du Peschin, Dame de Pontgibaud. La Fayette had a brother, Barthélemy, Prior of Voulte and two sisters, Algaye, wife of Bérnaud du Lac, Seigneur du Montel and Gilberte, wife of Jean de Vassel, Seigneur de Vassel, a knight. La Fayette's first wife was Dauphine de Monteith (1400-1423) whom he married in 1420.

  9. James Robinson (soldier, born 1753) - Wikipedia

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    Born on the Eastern Shore of Maryland into bondage on March 21, 1753, [1] his enslaver was Francis De Shields. Robinson served under the General Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette and would become a significant African American soldier in the American Revolutionary War. [2]