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MONLUC, or MONTLUC

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Originally appearing in Volume V18, Page 725 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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MONLUC, or See also:MONTLUC , the name of a See also:French See also:family. The See also:house of Lasseran-Mansencomme, which possessed the See also:estate of Monluc in See also:Agenais, and took its name in the 16th See also:century, is held to be a See also:branch of the family of Montesquiou. See also:Marshal Blaise de Monluc (d. 1577), author of the Commentaires, had a son, See also:Pierre See also:Bertrand, called the Capitaine Peyrot, who perished in an expedition to See also:Madeira in 1566, and another son, Fabien de Monluc, whose granddaughter, Jeanne de Monluc (d. 1657), countess of Carmaing, princess of Chabanais, brought the estates of her house to the family of Escoubleau by her See also:marriage with See also:Charles d'Escoubleau, See also:marquess of Sourdis and Alluyes. See also:Jean de Monluc, See also:brother of the marshal, was See also:bishop of See also:Valence and See also:Die, and distinguished himself in several embassies. He died in 1579, leaving a natural son, Jean de Monluc (d. 1603), seigneur de Balagny, who was at first a zealous member of the See also:League, but made his submission to See also:Henry IV., and received from him the principality of See also:Cambrai and the See also:baton of a marshal of See also:France.

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