Jean Charles Lamoral of Ligne-La Trémoïlle

Jean Charles Lamoral of Ligne-La Trémoïlle (16 June 1911 – 9 July 2005) was a Belgian nobleman and the son of Henri-Florent Lamoral de Ligne and his wife, Charlotte de La Trémoille (1892–1971), eldest daughter of the 13th and penultimate Duc de Thouars.

Family Background

Although a junior member of the House of Ligne, he founded a distinct cadet branch of that princely family: at the death of his childless maternal uncle, Louis Jean Marie de La Trémoille, prince étranger and last Duke of Thouars in France, Prince Jean Charles legally appended his uncle's surname, "de La Trémoïlle", to his own in Belgium.^[1][2]

Marriage and Children

On 11 March 1942, he married in Paris, France Maria del Rosario de Lambertye-Gerbeviller, daughter of Charles Edmond de Lambertye, Marquis de Gerbeviller. They had three children, all of whom married into princely families:^[1]

• Hedwige Marie (b. 1943); who married at Antoing, Belgium in 1966 to Charles de Mérode (b. 1940).
  • Emmanuel de Merode
• Charles-Antoine Lamoral (b. 1946), who married firstly in 1971 Lady Moira Forbes, daughter of the 9th Earl of Granard and his wife, Marie-Madeleine de Faucigny-Lucinge;^[3] after their divorce in 1975, he wed secondly at Neuilly-sur-Seine, France on 23 January 1976 Alyette de Croÿ (b. 1951), from whom he was divorced in 2002. He has issue by the second marriage:

• Edouard Lamoral Rodolphe, born in Paris in 1976, and wed at Antoing Castle 29 June 2009 to film actress (and god-daughter of Silvio Berlusconi) Isabella Orsini (born at Perugia 2 December 1974).^[4]

• Althea

• Charles Lamoral Joseph Malcolm, born in Paris in 1980, and wed at Antoing Castle 20 November 2010 to Ran Li (born in Guangdong, China).^[5]

• Amadeo Joseph Gabriel

• Nathalie Marie (1948–1992); who married at Saint-Georges-sur-Loire, France in 1973 to Alain de Polignac (b. 1940).

His legal title and style in Belgium was: "His Highness Jean Charles de Ligne de La Trémoïlle, Prince de Ligne."

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