Louis Jean Marie de La Trémoïlle (8 February 1910–9 December 1933), prince and 12th duc de La Trémoïlle, 13th duc de Thouars and premier duke of France, 13th prince de Tarente

Taranto

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 and 17th prince de Talmond was a French soldier and the son of Louis Charles Marie de La Trémoille

Louis Charles Marie de La Trémoille

Louis Charles Marie de La Trémoille , 10th duc de Thouars, was a French nobleman and the son of Louis Charles de La Trémoille and his wife, Marguerite-Jeanne Tanneguy-Duchâtel....

 and his wife, Marguerite-Jeanne Tanneguy-Duchâtel.

La Trémoïlle was a member of the 1er régiment de chasseurs d'Afrique

Chasseurs d'Afrique

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, a French army regiment. He was killed in a fire at the estate of Leander J. McCormick

Leander J. McCormick

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 in Whitchurch, Hampshire

Whitchurch, Hampshire

Whitchurch is a town in Hampshire, England. It is on the River Test, from Newbury, Berkshire, from Winchester, miles from Andover and miles from Basingstoke. Much of the town is a Conservation Area. Because of the amount of wildlife in and near the river, parts of the town are designated as...

, England

England

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, at the age of 23. He was unmarried and left no descendants.

Although the 1944 Almanach de Gotha

Almanach de Gotha

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states that his successor as 14th duchesse de Thouars was the eldest of his four sisters, Princess Charlotte

Charlotte de La Trémoille

Charlotte Marie Clotilde de La Trémoille was a French noblewoman and the daughter of Louis Charles Marie de La Trémoille and his wife, Hélène Marie Léonie Pillet-Will. On 13 April 1910, she married Henri Florent Lamoral, prince de Ligne. they had one son, Jean Charles...

 ((1892-1971), the Genealogisches Handbuch des Adels of 1991 refrains from doing so, and a 1959 ruling of the French courts declared that hereditary title

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s may only be transmitted "male-to-male" in "modern law". (The original grant of the duke

Duke

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dom, in July 1563 by Charles IX

Charles IX of France

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, stipulated that it was heritable by both male and female successors, although when erected into a pairie

Peerage of France

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by King Henri le Grand

Henry IV of France

Henry IV , Henri-Quatre, was King of France from 1589 to 1610 and King of Navarre from 1572 to 1610. He was the first monarch of the Bourbon branch of the Capetian dynasty in France....

 in 1699, the letters patent

Letters patent

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 restricted succession to the peerage to male heirs). His nephew, Jean Charles Lamoral

Jean Charles, Prince de Ligne de La Trémoille

Prince Jean Charles de Ligne de La Trémoïlle , was a Belgian nobleman and the son of Prince Henri de Ligne and his wife, Princess Charlotte de La Trémoille , eldest daughter of the 13th and penultimate Duc de Thouars...

, as the only son of his eldest sister had de La Trémoïlle appended to his own princely surname in the Kingdom of Belgium

Monarchy of Belgium

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 as "Prince de Ligne de La Trémoïlle" on 20 December 1934, and his only son, Jean Charles, bears the same title and name.