Duc de Mouchy
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The title of Duc de Mouchy was a French peerage held by members of a cadet branch of the Noailles family.
The founder of the branch, Philippe, comte de Noailles (1715-1794), was the younger brother of Louis, 4th duc de Noailles and a marshal of France. He received the Spanish title of prince de Poix in 1729, and that of duc de Mouchy (also a Spanish title) in 1747, when on the birth of his first son the title of prince de Poix became a courtesy title held by the heir. In 1767 Philippe de Noailles received the additional French title of duc de Poix à brevêt.
Three of Noailles's sons died as infants, the last before the birth of the duke's successor, Philippe-Louis-Marc-Antoine de Noailles, who was thus prince de Poix from his birth. On his father's death, he became prince-duc de Poix and the Spanish duc de Mouchy. In 1817, during the Restoration, he was created duc de Mouchy as a French peerage. From that point, the head of the male line has been duc de Mouchy and prince-duc de Poix.
[edit] Ducs de Mouchy (1817)
From the creation of the French peerage, the holders have been:
- Philippe-Louis-Marc-Antoine de Noailles, 1st duc de Mouchy (1752-1819)
- Charles-Arthur-Tristan-Languedoc de Noailles, 2nd duc de Mouchy (1771-1834)
- Antoine-Claude-Dominique-Just de Noailles, 3rd duc de Mouchy (1777–1846)
- Charles-Philippe-Henri de Noailles, 4th duc de Mouchy (1808–1854)
- Antonin-Just-Léon-Marie de Noailles, 5th duc de Mouchy (1841–1909)
- Henri-Antoine-Marie de Noailles, 6th duc de Mouchy (1890–1947)
- Philippe-François-Armand-Marie, 7th duc de Mouchy (b. 1922)
The heir-apparent is Antoine-Georges-Marie de Noailles, prince de Poix (b. 1950).
[edit] Sources
- Héraldique européenne: Maison de Noailles (European Heraldry: House of Noailles, in French)
- An Online Gotha: Noailles
- Armory of the French Hereditary Peerage (1814-30)
