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chronological List of the knights of the Order of the Holy Spirit

Henri III, Teacher of the Order and first sovereign

The first Promotion (December 21st, 1578)

received Prelates the December 31st 1578, in the church of Large-Augustins the, with Paris:

Charles of Bourbon, IIe of the name, prince of blood, cardinal archbishop of Rouen, legate of Avignon then bishop-count de Beauvais and Pair of France.
Louis of Lorraine, cardinal of Own way, archbishop of Rheims.
Rene de Birague, cardinal, bishop of Lavaur, chancellor of France.
Philippe de Lénoncourt, bishop of Auxerre and Châlons, since archbishop of Rheims and cardinal.
Pierre de Gondi, cardinal, bishop of Paris.
Charles d' Escars, bishop and duke of Langres.
Rene de Daillon of Lude, abbot of Chasteliers, since bishop of Bayeux.
Jacques Amyot, bishop of Auxerre, and Large-chaplain of France.

received Knights the same day:

Louis IV Gonzague of Nevers, prince de Mantoue, duke of Nevers, Even of France.
Philippe-Emmanuel of Lorraine, duke of Mercoeur, Even of France.
Jacques II of Crussol, duke of Uzès, Even of France.
Charles of Lorraine, duke of Aumale, Even of France.
Honorat de Savoye, marquis de Villars, marshal and Admiral de France.
Arthus de Cossé, marshal and Large panetier of France.
François Gouffier, lord of Crèvecoeur and Bonnivet.
Francois, count d' Escars.
Charles de Hallwin, lord of Piennes, marquis de Meignelais, since duke of Even Hallvin and of France.
Charles of Rochefoucauld, lord of Barbézieux.
Jean d' Escars, prince de Carency.
Christophe Juvénal of Ursins, marquis de Trainel.
François Roy, count de Clinchamp, lieutenant of the countries of Anjou, Touraine and Maine.
Scipion de Fiesque, count de Lavagne, knight of honor of the queen Catherine de Médicis.
Antoine, lord de Pons, count de Marennes, captain of the Hundred gentlemen of the house of the King.
Jacques, lord de Humières and of Monchy, marquis d' Ancre, governor of Fibula.
Jean VI of Aumont, count de Châteauroux, Marshal of France.
Jean de Chourses, lord of Malicorne, governor of Poitou.
Albert de Gondi, count, then duke of Retz, Marshal of France and general of Galères.
Rene de Villequier, governor of Paris and Isle de France.
Jean Blosset, baron de Torcy, governor of Paris and Isle de France.
Claude de Villequier, Viscount of Guerche.
Antoine d' Estrées, marquis de Cœuvres, Large-Master of artillery of France.
Charles-Robert of Marck, count de Braine and of Maulévrier, captain of the Hundred Swiss ones of the guard.
François de Balzac, lord of Entragues, governor of Orleans.
Philibert of Guiche, lord of Chaumont, Large-Master of artillery of France.
Philippe Strozzi, colonel-general of the French infantry.

The second Promotion (December 21st, 1579)

received Knights the December 31st 1579, in the church of Large-Augustins of Paris.

François de Bourbon, prince de Conti.
François de Bourbon, prince dolphin of Auvergne, duke of Saint-Fargeau, then of Even Montpensier, of France.
Henri of Lorraine, first of the name, duke of Own way, Large-Master of France.
Louis of Saint-Froze, known as of Lusignan, knight of honor of the queen Catherine de Médicis.
Jean d' Ebrard, baron de Saint-Sulpice.
Jacques II of Goyon, lord of Matignon, count de Torigny, Marshal of France.
Bertrand de Salignac, lord of Mothe-Fénelon.

The third Promotion (December 21st, 1580)

received Knights the December 31st 1580, in the church of Saint-Saver of Blois.

François of Luxembourg, duke of Piney-Luxembourg, prince de Tingry, Even of France, ambassador in Rome.
Charles de Birague, adviser of State.
Jean de Léaumont, lord of Puygaillard, large-marshal of the camps and armies of the King.
Rene de Rochechouart, baron de Mortemar and lord of Lussac.
Henri de Lénoncourt, adviser of the King in his private Council, brigadier
Nicolas d' Angennes, lord of Rambouillet, vidame of Mans, captain of the bodyguards of the king Charles IX, ambassador in Germany and in Rome.

The fourth Promotion (December 21st, 1581)

received Knights the December 31st 1581, in the church of Large-Augustins of Paris.

Charles of Lorraine, first of the name, Tweed duke, Large-rider and Even Large-huntsman and of France.
Armand de Gontaut, baron de Biron, Marshal of France.
Guy de Daillon, count of Lude, governor of Poitou and seneshal of Rouergue.
François of the Balsam, count de Suze, governor of Provence.
Antoine de Levis, count de Quélus, governor of Rouergue.
Jean de Thévalle, lord of Aviré and Face, governor of Metz.
Louis d' Angennes, baron de Meslay, lord of Maintenon, large-marshal of the home of the house of the King.

The fifth Promotion (December 21st, 1582)

received Knights the December 31st 1582, in the church of Large-Augustins of Paris:

Charles of Lorraine, duke of Mayenne, admiral and Large-chamberlain of France.
Anne, duke of Merry, par and admiral de France.
Jean Louis de Nogaret of Valette, duke of Epernon, colonel-general of the French infantry.
Tannegui the Huntsman, count de Tillières, general lieutenant in Normandy.
Jean de Mouy, lord of Meilleraye, vice-admiral of France, general lieutenant in Normandy.
Philippe de Volvire, marquis de Ruffec, governor of Angoumois.
François de Mandelot, Viscount of Châlons, governor of the Lyonese.
Tristan de Rostaing, baron of Guerche, Large-Master of National Forestry Commission of France.
Jean-Jacques de Susanne, count de Cerny.

The sixth Promotion (December 21st, 1583)

Prelate received the December 31st 1583, in the church of Large-Augustins of Paris:

Charles of Lorraine, cardinal of Vaudemont, bishop and count de Toul.

received Knights the same day:

Honorat de Bueil, lord of Fountains, vice-admiral of France, general lieutenant in Brittany.
Rene of Rochefort, baron de Frollois, governor of Blésois.
Jean de Vivonne, marquis de Pisany, seneshal of Saintonge.
Louis Chasteigner, lord of Rocheposay, governor of Walk.
Bernard de Nogaret, lord of Valette, since admiral de France.
Henri de Joyeuse, count of Stopping, since duke of Merry, even and Marshal of France.
Nicolas de Grimonville, lord of Larchant, captain of the Hundred archers of the guard of the King.
Louis d' Amboise, count d' Aubijoux.
François of Valette, lord of Cornusson, governor and seneshal of Toulouse.
François de Cazillac, baron de Cessac.
Joachim, lord of Dinteville, general lieutenant with the Champagne government.
Joachim de Châteauvieux, count de Confolant, knight of honor of the queen Marie de Médicis.
Charles de Balzac, lord of Clermont d' Entragues.
Charles of Plessis, lord of Liancourt, since marquis de Guercheville and count of Beaumont-on-Oise, governor of Paris.
François de Chabanes, marquis de Curton, general lieutenant in Auvergne.
Robert de Combault, first Master of hotel of the king.
Francois, lord of Sénectaire or Saint-Nectaire cheese and Ferté-Nabert.

The seventh Promotion (December 21st, 1584)

received Knights the December 31st 1584, in the church of Large-Augustins of Paris:

Jean de Saint-Larry, baron de Termes, brigadier and governor of Metz.
Jean of Vienna, baron de Ruffey, governor of Bourbonnais.
Louis de Castellanne, known as Adhémar de Monteil, count de Grignan, general lieutenant in Provence.

The eighth Promotion (December 21st, 1585)

received Knights the December 31st 1585, in the church of Large-Augustins of Paris:

Charles of Bourbon, count de Soissons, par and Large-Master of France.
Jean, lord of Vase, baron of the Rock-Mabille.
Adrien Tiercelin, lord of Brush and Sarcus, since general Champagne lieutenant.
François Chub, marquis de Mirebeau, count de Charny.
Gilles de Souvré, marquis de Courtenvaux, Marshal of France.
François of O, lord of Fresnes, first gentleman of the room of the King, superintendent of finances, governor of Paris and Isle de France.
Claude of Châtre, baron of Maisonfort, since Marshal of France.
Giraud de Mauléon, lord of Gourdan, governor of Calais.
Jacques de Loubens, lord of Verdalle.
Louis de Berton, lord of Crillon, known as the Brave man, Mestre of camp of the regiment of the Guards.
Jean d' Angennes, lord of Poigny, ambassador in Savoye and in Vienna.
François of Jugie of Puy-Duval, lord and baron de Rieux, governor of Narbonne.
François-Louis d' Agoût de Montauban, count de Sault.
Guillaume de Saulx, Viscount of Tavannes, general lieutenant in Burgundy.
Meri de Barbezières, lord of the Rock-Chémeraut, large-marshal of the home of the house of the King.
François Of Plessis, lord of Richelieu, Large-provost of France.
Gabriel Nompar de Caumont, count de Lauzun.
Hector de Pardaillan, lord of Montespan and Gondrin.
Louis de Champagne, count of Suze in Maine.
Rene de Bouillé, count de Crancé, governor of Périgueux.
Louis of Wood, lord of Arpentis, governor of Touraine.
Jean of O, lord of Manou, captain of the Hundred archers of the bodyguard of the King.
Henri de Silly, count of Rocheguyon, damoiseau of Commercy.
Antoine de Bauffremont, known as of Vienna, marquis d' Arc in Barrois.
Jean of Chastelet, Tuna lord, governor of Langres.
François d' Escoubleau, lord of Sourdis, since marquis d' Alluye, first rider of the large stable.
Charles d' Ongnies, count de Chaulnes.
David Bouchard, Viscount of Aubeterre, governor of Périgord.

The ninth Promotion (December 21st, 1586)

received Knights on December 31st, 1586, in the church of Large-Augustins of Paris.

Georges, baron de Villequier, Viscount of Guierche.
Jacques de Mouy, lord of Pierrecourt, adviser of State.
Charles de Vivonne, lord of Chasteigneraye, seneshal of Saintonge.
Jacques the Huntsman, count de Tillières, general lieutenant of High-Normandy.

The tenth Promotion (December 21st, 1587)

Prelate received on December 31st, 1587:

François de Foix-Candale, bishop of Surface.

Knights and Commanders named without to be received

Several eminent characters were named knights or commanders about S. Esprit under the reign of Henri III, without to be received, and consequently they cannot be counted like members of the order. However, as the evidence of their nominations exists either in the files even of the order, or in the genealogies of the large officers of the crown, it appeared necessary to us to point out their names.

Year 1578

Louis, cardinal of Este, named commander on December 31st.
Knights:

François de France, duke of Alençon.
Louis II of Bourbon duke of Montpensier.
Jacques of Savoy duke of Nemours.
François duke of Montmorency, par, marshal and Large-Master of France.
Léonor Chub, Large-rider of France.
Guillaume II, Viscount of Merry, general lieutenant to the government of Languedoc, Marshal of France.
Laurent de Maugiron, general lieutenant of the Dauphine one.
Rene de Tournemine, baron of Hunaudaye.
Gaspard de Montmorin, lord of Saint-Hérem.
Jean de Losse, governor of Verdun.
Claude Motier of Fayette, lord of Hautefeuille.
Gilbert III of Levis, count de Ventadour, governor of the Limousin and then of the Lyonese, par of France.

Year 1580

Knights:

Charles de Vendosme de Rubempré, governor of Street.
Jean de Pontevés, baron de Cottignac, large seneshal and admiral de Provence.
Jean de Rieux, marquis d' Asserac.

Year 1582

Knights:

Charles of Belleville, count de Cosnac, general lieutenant in Saintonge.

Year 1584

Knights:

Jean Louis of Rochefoucault, count de Randan.
Charles de Mouy, lord of Meilleraye, vice-admiral of France.

Year 1585

Knights:

Michel de Castelnau, lord of Mauvissère, ambassador in England, governor of Saint-Dizier.
Hector Renaud de Durfort, count Launac.
François de Brailly, lord of Mainvilliers.

Year 1587

Knight:

Christophe, baron de Bassompierre.

Year 1588

Commander:

François de Joyeuse, archbishop of Narbonne, cardinal.

Knights:

Philippe d' Angennes, lord of Fargis, governor of Maine.
Rene of Bellay, prince d' Yvetot.
Artus de Maillé, lord of Brézé, governor of Anjou.

Henri IV

Henri IV, second sovereign chief of the order, accepted the collar only at the time of his sacring, on February 28th, 1594, and made, during this interval, the most former knight to govern his place (It was the marshal of Biron, the father, which chaired in the absence of the King.).

The first promotion (December 31st, 1591)

Prelate received in the church of Mantes:

Renaud of Beaune, archbishop of Bourges, then Direction, Large chaplain of France.

Knight:

Charles de Gontaut, baron de Biron, general marshal of the camps and armies of the King, since duke of Biron, par and Marshal of France.

The second promotion (December 7th, 1595)

Prelates received in the church of Large-Augustins of Paris:

Philippe of the Nozzle, archbishop and duke of Rheims.
Henri d' Escoubleau, bishop of Maillezais.

Knights:

Henri de Bourbon, duke of Montpensier, Even of France, Governor of Normandy.
Henri of Orleans, Duke of Longueville.
François of Orleans, count of Saint-Paul, since duke of Fronsac.
Antoine de Brichanteau, marquis de Nangis, colonel of the regiment of the French Guards and admiral de France.
Jean de Beaumanoir (1551-1614), marquis de Lavardin, since Marshal of France.
François d' Espinay, lord of Saint-Luc, since Large-Master of artillery of France, and governor of Brouage.
Roger de Saint-Larry and of Bellegarde, baron de Termes, Large-rider of France, first gentleman of the room of the King, and since duke of Bellegarde.
Henri d' Albret, count de Marennes, baron de Miossens.
Antoine, lord of Roquelaure, Marshal of France and general lieutenant in Guienne.
Charles d' Humières, marquis d' Ancre, general lieutenant in Picardy.
Guillaume de Hautemer, lord of Fervaques, count de Grancey, Marshal of France.
François de Cugnac, lord of Dampierre, marshal of the camps and armies of the King.
Antoine de Silli, count of Rochepot, since governor of Anjou.
Odet of Matignon, count de Torigni, lieutenant-general in Normandy.
François of the Barn, lord of Montigny, since Marshal of France.
Charles de Balsac, baron de Dunes.
Charles II of Thimble, count, then duke of Brissac, Marshal of France.
Pierre de Mornay, lord of Buhi, brigadier and general lieutenant in Isle de France.
François of Magdeleine, marquis de Ragny, governor of Nivernois.
Claude of Isle, lord of Marivaut, governor of Laon.
Charles de Choiseul, marquis de Praslin, Marshal of France.
Humbert de Marcilly, lord of Cipierre, marshal of the camps and armies of the King.
Gilbert de Chazeron, governor of the Lyonese.
Rene de Viau, lord of Chanlivaut, governor of the Resident of Auxerre.
Claude Gruel, lord of the Hoop, governor of Chartres.
Georges Babou, lord of Bourdaisière, captain of the Hundred gentlemen of the house of the King.

The third promotion (January 5th, 1597)

Knights received in the church of the abbey of Saint-Ouen of Rouen:

Henri I, duke of Montmorency, par, marshal and Constable of France.
Hercules de Rohan, duke of Montbazon, count de Rochefort, par, Large-huntsman of France and governor of Paris.
Charles de Montmorency, baron, then duke of Damville, admiral de France.
Alphonse d' Ornano, general colonel of the Corsicans, Marshal of France.
Urbain of Laval, lord of Wood-Dolphin, marquis de Sablé, Marshal of France.
Charles of Luxembourg, count de Brienne and of Roussy, governor of Metz.
Gilbert of Trémouille, marquis de Royan, count d' Olonne, captain of the Hundred gentlemen of the house of the King and seneshal of Poitou.
Jacques Chub, marquis de Mirebeau, count de Charny, Mestre of camp of the Champagne regiment and general lieutenant in Burgundy.
Jean, lord de Bueil, count de Sancerre and of Marans, Large wine waiter of France.
Guillaume de Gadagne, baron de Verdun, governor of the Lyonese.
Louis of Hospital, marquis de Vitry, captain of the bodyguards, governor of Meaux.
Pons de Lauzières-Thémines-Cardaillac, marquis de Thémines, seneshal and governor of Quercy, Marshal of France.
Louis d' Ognies, count de Chaulnes, governor of Fibula, Montdidier and Roye.
Edme de Malain, baron de Lux, general lieutenant in Burgundy.
Antoine d' Aumont, count de Châteauroux, marquis de Nolay, governor of Boulogne.
Louis of Chastre, baron of Maisonfort, governor of Berry, since Marshal of France.
Jean de Durfort, lord of Born, general lieutenant of artillery of France.
Louis de Bueil, lord of Racan, marshal of the camps and armies of the King, governor of Croizic.
Claude d' Harville, lord of Paloiseau, baron de Nainville, governor of Compiegne and Calais.
Eustace de Conflans, Viscount of Ouchy, general lieutenant of the armies of the King, governor of Saint-Quentin.
Louis de Grimonville, lord of Larchant, governor of Evreux.
Charles de Neufville, baron then marquis d' Alincourt and of Villeroy, count de Bury, large sergeant of the house of the King and governor of the Lyonese.

The fourth promotion (January 2nd, 1599)

Knights received in the church of Large-Augustins of Paris.

Anne de Lévis, duke of Ventadour, par of France, governor of the Limousin, general lieutenant to the government of Languedoc.
Jacques Mitte, count de Miolans, lord of Chévrières, baron of Saint-Chaumont, general lieutenant to the government of the Lyonese.
Jean-François de Faudoas d' Averton, count de Belin, governor of Ham, Paris and Calais.
Bertrand de Baylens, baron de Poyanne, governor of Acqs and seneshal of the moors of Bordeaux.
Rene de Rieux, Lord of Sourdéac, Marquis of Oixant, Governor of Brest.
Brandelis de Champagne, marquis Villaines.
Jacques of Hospital, marquis de Choisi, governor and seneshal of Auvergne.
Robert of Vieuville, baron de Rugle, Large-falconer of France, and governor of Rheims.
Charles of Matignon, count de Torigni, general lieutenant in Basse-Normandie.
François Juvénal of Ursins, marquis de Trainel, colonel de French Reîtres, marshal of the camps and armies of the King, ambassador in England.

The fifth promotion (1606)

Prelate:

Davy Jacques of the Perron, cardinal archbishop of Direction, Large-chaplain of France.

The sixth promotion (March 12th, 1608)

Knights received in Rome:

Alexandre Sforza-Conti, duke of Segni, prince de Valmontane, count de Santafior.
Jean Antoine Ursin, duke of Santo-Gemini, prince de Scandriglia, and count d' Ercole.

Knights and Commander named under the reign of Henri IV and died without to be received

Commander:

Charles, cardinal of Bourbon, archbishop of Rouen.

Knights:

Year 1595:

Anne d' Anglure, marquis de Givry.
Michel d' Estourmel, lord of Guyencourt.
Jean de Montluc, Marshal of France.
Gaspard de Schomberg, colonel of Reîtres.
Jean de Levis, lord of Mirepoix.
Jean, marquis de Goetquen.
Robert de Harlay.
François de Senicourt.

Year 1599:

Sebastien marquis de Rosmadec.

Year 1604:

Henri de Noailles.
Nicolas de Harlay.
François of Isle.
Jean-Paul d' Esparbès de Lussan.
Bernard of Beon of the Masses.
Jean de Gontault.
Jerome de Gondi.

Louis XIII

Louis XIII, third chief and sovereign Large-Master of the Order, accepted the collar on October 18th, 1610, the shortly after his sacring.

The first promotion (October 18th, 1610)

Knight:

Henri de Bourbon, IIe of the name, prince de Condé, first par and Large-Master of France.

The second promotion (September 1618)

Prelate:

François of Rochefoucauld, cardinal, bishop of Senlis, Large-Chaplain of France.

The third promotion (December 31st, 1619)

Prelates received in the church of Large-Augustins of Paris:

Henri de Gondi, cardinal of Retz, bishop of Paris, Master of the Oratory of the King.
Bertrand of Channels, archbishop of Turns and first chaplain of the King.
Christophe of the Pond, bishop of Carcassonne and choirmaster of the King.
Gabriel of Aubespine, bishop of Orleans.
Artus d' Espinay of Saint-Luc, bishop of Marseilles.

Knights:

Gaston Jean-Baptiste de France, duke of Orleans, brother of the king Louis XIII.
Louis de Bourbon, count de Soissons, par and Large-Master of France, governor of Dauphine.
Charles of Lorraine, duke of Own way, par of France, prince de Joinville, governor of Provence.
Henri of Lorraine, duke of Mayenne and Pivot, par and Great chamberlain of France, governor of Guyenne.
Claude of Lorraine, prince de Joinville, duke of Chevreuse, par and Great chamberlain of France, governor High and Low Walk.
César, duke of Vendôme, of Beaufort, of Stamps and Ponthièvre, prince de Martigues, governor of Brittany, par and since Large Master and general superintendent of the navigation and the trade of France.
Charles de Valois, duke of Angouleme, count d' Auvergne, etc, par of France and general colonel of the light cavalry.
Charles of Lorraine, duke of Elboeuf, par of France, governor of Picardy.
Henri, duke of Montmorency, par and admiral de France, governor of Languedoc, since Marshal of France.
Emmanuel de Crussol, duke of Uzès, par of France, knight of honor of the queen Anne of Austria.
Henri de Gondi, duke of Retz and Beaupreau, par of France.
Charles of Albert, duke of Luynes, par and Large falconer of France, governor of Picardy, Constable of France.
Honore d' Albert, duke of Chaulnes, par and Marshal of France, governor of Picardy.
Louis de Rohan, count de Rochefort, since prince de Guémené, duke of Montbazon, par and Large huntsman of France.
Joachim de Bellengreville, lord of Neuville-Gambetz, Bomicourt, etc, provost of the hotel of the King and large prévôté of France.
Martin of Bellay, prince d' Ivetot, marquis de Thouarcé, etc, general lieutenant in Normandy, then in Anjou, captain of fifty men-at-arms of the Ordinances, marshal of the camps and armies of the King.
Charles, lord de Créquy, prince de Poix, count de Sault, since duke of Lesdiguières, par and Marshal of France.
Gilbert Filhet, lord of the Quarry and the Rock-Turpin, captain of fifty men-at-arms, marshal of the camps and armies of the King.
Philippe de Béthune, count de Charost, baillif de Mantes and of Grinding, ambassador to Italy, Germany and England.
Charles de Coligny, marquis d' Andelot, general lieutenant with the Champagne government.
Jean-François of Guiche, lord of Saint-Géran, count of Trains, governor of Bourbonnais, since Marshal of France.
Rene of the Nozzle, marquis de Vardes and of the Bump, adviser of State, captain of fifty men-at-arms, governor of the country of Thiérache.
Antoine-Arnaud de Pardaillan, lord of Gondrin and Antin, marquis de Montespan, captain of the Bodyguards of the King, brigadier, and general lieutenant in the province of Guyenne.
Henri de Schomberg, count de Nanteuil, superintendent of Finances, governor High and Low Walk and of the Limousin, Marshal of France.
François de Bassompierre, general colonel of Swiss, then Marshal of France.
Henri de Bourdeille, Viscount of Bourdeille, marquis, of Archiac, captain of one hundred men-at-arms, seneshal and governor of Périgord.
Jean-Baptiste d' Ornano, count de Montlor, general colonel of the Corsicans, general lieutenant in Normandy, governor of the person of single Mister brother of the King, then Marshal of France.
Timoléon d' Espinay, lord of Saint-Luc, count d' Estelan, governor of Brouage, general lieutenant in Guyenne and since Marshal of France.
Henri de Baufremont, marquis de Sénecey, governor of Auxonne.
Rene Potter, count then duke of Tresme, par of France, captain of the Bodyguards of the King, general lieutenant to the Champagne government.
Philippe-Emmanuel de Gondi, count de Joigny, general of the galères.
Charles d' Angennes, marquis de Rambouillet, vidame of Mans, lord of Arquenay, etc, captain of the Hundred gentlemen of the house of the King, ambassador extraordinary in Spain.
Louis of Bursting, Viscount of Brigueil, marquis d' Humières, captain of the Hundred gentlemen of the house of the King and governor of Compiegne.
Bertrand Flat-bottom the, known as one of Hire, baron Vignolles, lord of Casaubon and Preschat, general Champagne lieutenant, first marshal of the camps and armies of the King, governor of Holy-Ménéhould.
Antoine de Gramont, sovereign of Bidache, count de Guiche and of Louvignières, then duke of Gramont, viceroy of Navarre and Béarn, governor of Bayonne.
François Nompar de Caumont, count de Lauzun, adviser of State, captain of fifty men-at-arms.
Mitte Nickel silver, count de Miolans, marquis of Saint-Chaumont and Montpezal, lord of Chevrières, minister of state, general lieutenant of the armies of the King, and with the government of Provence, ambassador extraordinary in Rome.
Léonor of Magdeleine, marquis de Ragny, lieutenant for the King in the county of Charollois.
Jean de Warignies, lord of Blainville, Master of the wardrobe of the King.
Leon d' Albert, lord of Brantes, captain lieutenant of the Light horsemen of the guard, governor of Blaye, since duke of Luxembourg and par of France.
Nicolas de Brichanteau, marquis de Nangis, adviser of State, captain of fifty men-at-arms.
Charles de Vivonne, baron of Chasteigneraye, governor of Partenai.
Andre de Cochefilet, count de Vauvineux, baron de Vaucelas, ambassador in Spain.
Gaspard Dauvet, lord of Marêts, adviser of State, governor of Beauvais and country of Beauvaisis, ambassador in England.
Lancelot, lord of Vase, baron of the Rock-Mabile, lord of Esquilly, etc, adviser of State.
Charles, lord de Rambures, brigadier, governor of Doullens.
Antoine de Buade, lord of Frontenac, baron de Palluau, captain of the castle of Saint-Germain-in-Bush hammer, first Master of hotel of the King.
Nicolas of Hospital, marquis then duke of Vitry, Marshal of France, governor of the Brie.
Jean de Souvré, marquis de Courtenvaux, adviser of State, first gentleman of the Room of the King, and governor of Touraine.
François of Hospital, lord of Hallier, count de Rosnay, captain of the Bodyguards of the King, since minister of state and Marshal of France.
Louis of Marck, marquis de Mauny, first rider of the queen Anne of Austria.
Charles, marquis then duke of Vieuville, captain of the Bodyguards of the King, superintendent of Finances, and Large falconer of France.
Louis d' Alogny, marquis de Rochefort, baron de Craon and baillif of Berri.
César-Auguste de Saint-Lary, baron de Termes, Master of the Horse of France.
Alexandre de Rohan, marquis de Marigny, captain of one hundred men-at-arms.
François de Silly, count then duke of Rocheguyon, Large louvetier of France.
Antoine-Hercules de Budos, marquis de Portes, vice-admiral of France.
Francois, count then duke of Rochefoucauld, governor of Poitou.
Jacques d' Etampes, lord of Valençai, Large sergeant of the house of the King, then governor of Calais.
Henri d' Albret, baron de Moissens, Mestre of camp of thousand men of foot maintained for the King with the country Bigorre.

The fourth promotion (July 26th, 1622)

Made with Grenoble, in the church cathedral.

François de Bonne, duke of Lesdiguières, par and Constable of France, governor and general lieutenant of the Dauphine one.

The fifth promotion (June 28th, 1625)

Made in the vault of the hotel of Sommerset, with London, on June 28th, 1625.

Antoine Coeffier, known as Ruzé, marquis d' Effiat and of Longjumeau, baron de Massy and of Beaulieu, governor of Bourbonnais and Auvergne, superintendent of Finances and since Marshal of France.

The sixth promotion (March 24th, 1632)

Prelate:

Alfonse-Louis of Plessis de Richelieu, cardinal and archbishop of Lyon, Large chaplain of France.

The seventh promotion (May 14th, 1633)

Made with Fontainebleau.

Prelates:

Armand-Jean of Plessis, cardinal, duke of Richelieu, par of France, Large main and general superintendent of navigation and the trade, governor of Brittany.
Louis de Nogaret, cardinal of Valette, archbishop of Toulouse.
Claude de Rébé, archbishop of Narbonne, baron d' Arcque, chairs born States of Languedoc.
Jean-François de Gondi, first archbishop of Paris, choirmaster of the King.
Henri d' Escoubleau de Sourdis, Archbishop of Bordeaux, primacy of Aquitaine.

Knights:

Henri of Orleans, duke of Longueville, governor of Normandy.
Henri of Lorraine, count d' Harcourt, Master of the Horse of France.
Louis de Valois, count d' Alets, since duke of Angouleme and governor of Provence.
Henri of Trémoïlle, duke of Thouars, par of France, prince de Tarente and of Talmond, count de Laval, etc
Charles de Lévis, duke of Ventadour, par of France, general lieutenant in Languedoc and governor of the Limousin.
Henri de Nogaret of Valette, known as of Foix, duke of Candale, par of France.
Charles de Schomberg, duke of Halluin, general colonel of Reîtres, marshal of the German troops, governor of Languedoc, par and Marshal of France.
François de Cossé, duke of Brissac, par and Large panetier of France.
Bernard de Nogaret, of Valette and Foix, duke of Valette and Epernon, general colonel of the French infantry, governor of Metz.
Charles-Henri, count de Clermont and of Thunder, marquis de Crusy, etc, first baron and hereditary constable of Dauphine, adviser of State and captain of one hundred men-at-arms.
François Hannibal d' Estrées, marquis de Cœuvres, Marshal of France, then duke and par of France.
Jean de Nettancourt, count de Vaubecourt, baron d' Orne and of Choiseul, adviser of State, marshal of the camps and armies of the King, governor of Châlons.
Henri de Saint-Nectaire, or Senneterre, marquis of Ferté-Nabert, ambassador in England and in Rome, minister of state.
Philibert, Viscount of Pompadour, general lieutenant for the King in the Limousin.
Rene with the Shoulders, known as of Laval, marquis de Néelle, brigadier
Guillaume de Simiane, marquis de Gordes, captain of the Bodyguards of the King.
Charles, count de Lannoi, first Master of hotel of the King, governor of Montreuil.
François de Nagu, marquis de Varennes, governor of Acute-Dead.
Urbain de Maillé, marquis de Brézé, Marshal of France, governor of Calais and Saumur.
Jean de Gallard, of Béarn, count de Brassac, governor of Saintonge.
François de Noailles, count d' Ayen, adviser of State, captain of one hundred men-at-arms of the Ordinances, marshal of the camps and armies of the King, general lieutenant in Auvergne.
Bernard de Baylens, baron de Poyanne, general lieutenant with the country of Béarn.
Gabriel of the Valley-Ditches, marquis d' Everly, brigadier, governor of Lorraine and the towns of Montpellier and Verdun.
Charles de Livron, marquis de Bourbonne, general Champagne lieutenant, brigadier
Gaspard-Armand, Viscount of Po1ignac, marquis de Chalançon, governor of the Puy-en-Velay.

Louis, Viscount then duke of Arpajon, marquis de Séverac, general lieutenant of the armies of the King.

Charles d' Escoubleau, marquis de Sourdis and of Alluye, adviser of State, marshal of the camps and armies of the King, governor of Orleans.
François de Blanchefort de Bonne of Créqui, count de Sault, since duke of Lesdiguières, par of France and governor of the Dauphine one.
François de Béthune, count d' Orval, then duke of Béthune, first rider of the queen Anne of Austria.
Claude de Rouvroy of Saint-Simon, par and Large louvetier of France, since duke of Saint-Simon.
Charles of Camboût, baron of Bridge-Castle and the Rock-Bernard, marquis de Coislin, governor of Brest, general lieutenant for the King in Low-Brittany.
François de Vignerot, marquis of Bridge-of-Courlai, governor of Le Havre of Grace, since general of the galères of France.
Charles of the Door, marquis then duke of Meilleraye, par, Large main of artillery and Marshal of France.
Gabriel de Rochechouart, marquis then duke of Mortemart, par of France, and governor of Paris.
Antoine d' Aumont and of Rochebaron, lord of Villequier, since duke, par and Marshal of France.
Just-Henri, count de Tournon and of Roussillon, seneshal of Auvergne, brigadier
Louis de Mouy, lord of Meilleraye, general lieutenant to the government of Normandy.
Charles Damas, count of Thianges, brigadier, general lieutenant of the countries of Bresse and Charollois.
Hector de Gelas of Neighbors, marquis de Leheron and of Ambers, Viscount of Lautrec, seneshal and governor of Lauragais.
Henri de Baudean, count de Parabère, marquis of Mothe-Holy-Heraye, Viscount of Pardaillan, lord of Castelnau, etc, adviser of State, governor Top and Low-Poitou.
Jean de Monchy, marquis de Montcavrel, governor of Ardres and Stamps.
Roger of Plessis, lord of Liancourt, marquis de Guercheville, count of Rocheguyon, since duke of Liancourt and par of France.
Charles de Rouvroy of Saint-Simon, known as the marquis of Saint-Simon, lord of Plessis and Bridge-Holy-Maixence, colonel of the regiment of Navarre, general lieutenant of the armies of the King and governor of Senlis.

The eighth promotion (May 22nd, 1642)

Made with the camp in front of the town of Perpignan.

Honore Grimaldi, prince de Monaco, first duke of Valentinois, par of France.

Knights named under the reign of Louis XIII, died without to be received

Year 1611:

François de Monceaux of Auxi, baron de Mérigny, vice-admiral of Normandy.
François Damas, lord of Thianges.
Christophe de Harlay, count de Beaumont, ambassador in England.
Pierre de Harcourt, marquis de Beuvron.

Year 1612:

François d' Esparbès de Lussan, marquis d' Aubeterre, Marshal of France.
Isaac of Rochefoucauld, baron de Montendre.

Year 1613:

Armand-Leon de Durfort, lord of Born, general lieutenant of artillery of France.

Year 1614:

Antoine d' Authun, lord of the Balsam, seneshal of the town of Lyon.
Charles count d' Escars, baron d' Aix.

Year 1615:

Louis de Montbron, lord of Fountains and Chalandray.
César de Dizimieu, governor of the city and castle of Vienna.
Etienne de Bonne, Viscount of Tallard.

Year 1616:

Leon de Durfort.
Louis de Gouffier, duke of Rouannois.

Year 1618:

Emmanuel of Savoy, baron de Pressigny, seneshal and governor of the country and duchy of Châtellerault.
Henri of Prez, lord of Montpezat.
Charles de Balzac, bishop and count de Noyon, par of, France.
Claude of Merry, count Large-Pre.

Year 1619:

Alexandre de Vieuxpont, marquis de Coëmur, vice-admiral of Brittany.
Andre of Speech.
Jacques de Castille, baron de Castelnau.
Claude-François of the Balsam, count of Mount-Revel.
Henri de Balzac, lord of Clermont d' Entragues.
Edme of Rochefort, marquis of Boullaye, general lieutenant in Nivernois.

Year 1621:

Jacques of Corn, marquis d' Uxelles.

Year 1625:

François de Savary, marquis de Maulevrier.
François of Aubespine, baron d' Hauterive.

Year 1626:

Adrien de Montluc Montesquiou, prince de Chabannois, general lieutenant with the country of Foix.

Year 1629:

César de Balzac d' Entragues, lord of Liking.
Jean-Louis de Rochechouart, lord of Chandenier.
Louis de Marillac, count of Beaumont-the-Roger, Marshal of France.

Year 1633:

Emmanuel-Philibert of Beraudière.
Jean of Saint-Bonnet, lord of Thoiras, Marshal of France.
Charles de Levis, count de Charlus.
Entio, marquis de Bentivoglio.
Georges de Brancas, duke of Villars, par of France.

Louis XIV

Louis XIV, called Large, fourth chief and main Large sovereign of the Order, accepted the collar of the Order only the shortly after his sacring, on June 8th, 1654.

The first promotion (Paris, April 28th, 1653)

Prelate:

Antoine Barberin, cardinal bishop of Palestrine, archbishop duke of Rheims, appointed Large chaplain of France.

The second promotion (Rheims June 8th, 1654)

Philippe de France, duke of Anjou, since duke of Orleans, single brother of the King.

The third promotion (Paris, December 31st, 1661)

Prelates:

Camille de Neufville de Villeroi, archbishop of Lyon.
François Adhémar de Monteil, of Grignan, archbishop of Arles.
Georges d' Aubusson of Feuillade, bishop of Metz, before archbishop of Spray.
François de Harlay de Chanvalon, par of France, archbishop of Rouen, since archbishop of Paris.
Léonor of Matignon, bishop of Lizieux.
Gaspard de Daillon of Lude, bishop of Albi.
Henri of Mothe-Houdancourt, bishop of Rennes, then archbishop of Auch.
Philippe-Emanuel de Beaumanoir de Lavardin, bishop of Mans.

Knights:

Louis II of Bourbon-Cop, prince de Condé, first par of France, duke of Enghien.
Henri Jules de Bourbon-Cop, duke of Enghien, prince de Condé, par and Large Master of France.
Armand of Bourbon-Conti, prince de Conti, governor of Languedoc.
Henri de Bourbon, duke of Verneuil, par of France.
Louis, duke of Vendôme and Mercoeur, par of France, governor of Provence, since cardinal and papal legate in France.
François de Vendôme, duke of Beaufort, par of France, Large main and superintendent of the navigation and the trade of France.
François de Crussol, duke of Uzès, par of France.
Louis Charles of Albert de Luynes, duke of Luynes, par and Large falconer of France.
Charles of Albert, known as of Ailly, duke of Chaulnes, par of France, governor of Brittany.
Francois, duke of Rochefoucauld, prince de Marcillac, par of France and governor of Poitou.
Pierre de Gondi, duke of Retz, par of France and general of the galères.
Antoine, duke of Gramont, par and Marshal of France.
César de Choiseul, duke of Choiseul, par and Marshal of France, count of Plessis-Praslin.
Nicolas de Neufville de Villeroy, duke of Villeroy, par and Marshal of France.
Charles, duke of Créqui, prince de Poix, par of France, governor of Paris.
Jacques d' Etampes, marquis of Ferté-Imbaud and Mauny, Marshal of France. Henri of S. - Nectary or Sennecterre, duke of Ferté, par and Marshal of France, governor of Metz.
Philippe de Montaut, duke of Navailles, Marshal of France.
Jacques Rouxel, count de Grancey and of Médavi, Marshal of France.
Gaston-Jean-Baptist, duke of Roquelaure, governor of Guyenne.
Philippe-Julien Mazarini Mancini, duke of Nevers, governor of Nivernois and the country of Aunis.
Jules Cesarini, duke of Cittanova, baron Romain (It accepted the collar only in 1662, in Rome.).
François de Beauvilliers, duke of Saint-Aignan, par of France, first gentleman of the Room of the King.
Henri de Daillon, count then duke of Lude, Large main of artillery of France.
Louis de Béthune, duke of Charost, known as of Béthune, general lieutenant in Picardy.
Anne de Noailles, Duke of Noailles, count d' Ayen, even of France and Governor of the county of Roussillon.
François de Cominges, lord of Guitaut, governor of Saumur.
François de Clermont, count de Tonnerre and of Clermont, Viscount of Tallard.
Alexandre-Guillaume of Melun, prince d' Espinoi, hereditary constable of Flanders.
César Phoebus d' Albret, Marshal of France, governor of Guyenne.
François-Rene of the Nozzle, marquis de Vardes, captain of the Members of the Swiss Guards of the ordinary guard of the King.
Charles-Maximilien de Belleforière, marquis de Soyecourt, Large huntsman of France.
François of Paule de Clermont, marquis de Monglat, count de Chiverny, Large main of the wardrobe of the King.
Philippe de Clérembaud, count de Palluau, Marshal of France, governor of Berry.
Jean de Schulemberg, count de Montdejeu, Marshal of France.
Gaston-Jean-Baptist of Comminges, known as the count de Comminges, governor of Saumur.
François de Simianne and of Pontevès, marquis de Gordes, Large seneshal of Provence.
Henri de Beringhen, lord of Armainvilliers, first rider of the small stable of the King.
Jean of Bouchet, marquis de Sourches, provost of the hotel of the King and large prévôté of France.
Charles, count de Froulai, Large sergeant of the house of the King.
Jacques-François, marquis de Hautefort, count de Montignac, first rider of the Queen.
François Goyon of Matignon, count de Torigny, general lieutenant in Basse-Normandie.
Charles of Holy-Moor, duke of Montausier, par of France, governor of Monseigneur the Dolphin.
François d' Espinay, marquis of Saint-Luc, general lieutenant in Guyenne.
Hippolite de Béthune, count de Selles, known as the count de Béthune, knight of honor of the Queen.
Ferdinand of the Balsam, count de Montrevel, general lieutenant with the country of Bresse, Bugei, etc
Louis-Armand, Viscount of Polignac, marquis de Chalançon, governor of the city of Puy.
Antoine de Brouilly, marquis de Piennes, governor of Pignerol.
Jean, marquis de Pompadour, general lieutenant in the Limousin.
Louis de Cardaillac and of Lévis, count de Biculés, general lieutenant in Languedoc.
Scipion de Grimoard de Beauvoir, count de Roure, general lieutenant in Languedoc.
François de Monstiers, count de Mérinville and of Rieux, general lieutenant in Provence.
Henri de Baylens, marquis de Poyanne, general lieutenant in Béarn.
Leon of Holy-Moor, count de Jonsac, general lieutenant of the countries of Saintonge and Angoumois.
Jacques Stuer, count of Vauguyon, marquis de Saint-Mégrin, Large seneshal of Guyenne.
Charles-François de Joyeuse, count de Grandpré, governor of Mouzon and Beaumont.
Timoléon de Cossé, count de Chateaugiron, Large panetier of France.
Charles-Martel, count de Clère, captain of the French Bodyguards of single Mister brother of the King.
Jean-Paul de Gourdon de Genouillac, count de Vaillac, captain of the guards of single Mister brother of the King.
Nicolas-Joachim Rouaut, marquis de Gamaches, governor of Saint-Valeri and Street.
Godefroi, count d' Estrades, governor of Dunkirk, perpetual mayor of Bordeaux, viceroy of America, Marshal of France.
Rene-Gaspard of the Cross, marquis de Castries, governor of Montpellier.
Guillaume de Pêchepeyrou and of Comminges, count de Guitaut, chamberlain and first gentleman of the room of Mr. prince of Condé.

The fourth promotion (Paris, November 4th, 1663)

Knight:

Christian-Louis, duke of Meckelbourg-Swerin.

The fifth promotion (December 12th, 1671)

Prelate:

Emmanuel-Théodose of the Tower of Auvergne, cardinal of Bubble, Large chaplain of France.

The sixth promotion (Rome, September 29th, 1675)

Knights:
Flavio Ursin, duke of Bracciano, Roman baron and prince de Soglio.
Louis Conty-Sforce, duke of Sforce, Ognano and Ségni.
Philippe Colonna, prince de Sonnino.

The seventh promotion (Saint-Germain-in-Bush hammer, December 22nd, 1675)

Knight:

François de Béthune, marquis de Chabris, ambassador extraordinary in Poland.

The eighth promotion (Zolkiew, Poland, November 30th, 1676)

Knight:

Jean Sobieski, king de Pologne, third of the name, large duke of Lithuania.

The ninth promotion (Saint-Germain-in-Bush hammer, January 1st, 1682)

Knight:

Louis de France, Dolphin of Viennese, only sons of Louis XIV.

The tenth promotion (Versailles, June 2nd, 1686)

Knights:

Philippe of Orleans, duke of Orleans, of Chartres, etc, wire of Sir, single brother of His Majesty, since regent of the kingdom.
Louis III of Bourbon-Cop, duke of Bourbon, prince of blood, par and Large main of France, since duke of Enghien.
François Louis of Bourbon-Conti, prince de Conti.
Louis Auguste of Bourbon, legitimated France, duke of Maine, par of France, Large main of artillery of France, general colonel of Swiss and Grison.

The eleventh promotion (Versailles, December 31st, 1688)

Prelates:

César d' Estrées, cardinal of the title of the Trinity of the Mount, before bishop and duke of Laon, par of France.
Pierre de Bonzi, cardinal of the title of S. - Onufre, archbishop of Narbonne.
Charles-Maurice Tellier, archbishop and duke of Rheims, first par of France.
Pierre of Cambout de Coislin, cardinal of the title of the Trinity on the Pincio mount, bishop of Orleans, first chaplain of the king, then Large chaplain of France in 1700.

Knights:

Louis-Joseph, duke of Vendôme, par of France, general of the galères.
Louis of Lorraine, count d' Armagnac, Master of the Horse of France, governor of Anjou.
Henri of Lorraine, count de Brionne, received in survival of the load of Master of the Horse of France.
Philippe of Lorraine.
Charles of Lorraine, count de Marsan.
Charles-Belgium-Holland, lord of Trémouille, duke of Thouars, par of: France, prince de Tarente and first gentleman of the Room of the King.
Emmanuel de Crussol, duke of Uzès, par of France.
Maximilien-Pierre-François de Béthune, duke of Sully, par of France, marquis de Rosny.
Charles-Honore d' Albert, duke of Luynes and Chevreuse, par of France.
Armand-Jean de Vignerot of Plessis-Richelieu, duke of Richelieu and Fronsac, par of France.
Francois, duke of Rochefoucauld, par and Large huntsman of France.
Louis Grimaldi, prince de Monaco, par of France and duke of Valentinois.
François Annibal d' Estrées de Lauzière, duke of Estrées, par of 'France and marquis de Thémines.
Antoine-Charles, duke of Gramont, count de Guiche and par of France.
Armand-Charles of the Door, duke of Mazarin, Meilleraye and Mayenne, par of France and Large main of artillery.
François de Neufville de Villeroy, duke of Villeroy, par and Marshal of France.
Paul de Beauvilliers, duke of Saint-Aignan, par of France and large of Spain.
Henri-François de Foix de Candale, duke of Randan, par of France and captal of Buc.
Leon Potter, duke of Tresme, known as of Gesvres, par of France, first gentleman of the Room of the King.
Anne Jules de Noailles, Duke of Noailles, even and Marshal of France.
Armand de Even Camboust, of France, Count of Crécy.
César Auguste, duke of Choiseul, par of France, general lieutenant of the armies of the King.
Louis-Marie-Victor d' Aumont de Rochebaron, duke of Aumont, par of France, marquis de Villequier.
François-Henri de Montmorenci, duke of Piney-Luxembourg, par and Marshal of France.
Francois, Viscount of Aubusson, count of Feuillade, duke of Rouanez, Marshal of France, viceroy of Sicily and governor of the Dauphine one.
Bernardin Gigault, marquis de Bellefons, Marshal of France.
Louis of Bursting, duke of Humières, Marshal of France and Grand Master of artillery.
Jacques-Henri de Durfort, duke of Lasted, governor of Franche-Comté, Marshal of France.
Guy Aldonce de Durfort, count de Lorges, since duke of Quintin, duke of Lorges, Marshal of France.
Armand de Béthune, duke of Charost, par of France, general lieutenant to the government of Picardy.
Jean, count d' Estrées, vice-admiral and Marshal of France, viceroy of America, general lieutenant in Brittany.
Charles, duke of Vieuville, governor of Poitou, knight of honor of the Queen and governor of Philippe of Orleans, duke of Chartres.
Jean-Baptiste de Cassagnet, marquis de Tilladet, captain of the Members of the Swiss Guards of the guard of the King.
Louis de Caillebot, marquis of the Room, Master of the wardrobe of the King.
Jacques-Louis de Béringhen, count de Châteauneuf, first rider of the King.
Philippe de Courcillon, marquis de Dangeau, governor of Touraine, knight of honor of Madam the Dauphine one.
Philibert de Gramont, count de Gramont, governor of the country of Aunis and the La Rochelle.
Louis-François, duke of Boufflers, par and Marshal of France, knight of the Golden Fleece, colonel of the French Guards.
François de Harcourt, marquis de Beuvron, general lieutenant with the government of Normandy.
Henri de Mornay, marquis de Montchevreuil, captain and governor of Saint-Germain in Bush hammer.
Edouard-François Colbert, count de Maulevrier, general lieutenant of the armies of the King.
Joseph de Pons and of Guimera, baron de Monclar, general lieutenant of the armies of the King.
Henri-Charles de Beaumanoir, marquis de Lavardin, general lieutenant in Brittany.
Pierre de Villars, marquis de Villars, adviser of State, general lieutenant of the armies of the King, ambassador in Savoy, Danemarck and Spain.
François Adhémar de Monteil, count de Grignan, general lieutenant in Provence.
Claude de Choiseul, marquis de Francières, called the count de Choiseul, Marshal of France.
Jacques Goyon, lord de Matignon, count de Thorigny, general lieutenant in Basse-Normandie.
Jean-Armand of Merry, appointed the Joyeuse marquis, Marshal of France.
François de Calvo, general lieutenant of the armies of the King, governor of the town of Surface.
Charles, count d' Aubigné, governor of Berri.
Charles de Montsaunin, count de Montval, general lieutenant of the armies of the King.
Claude de Thiard, count de Bissy, general lieutenant of the armies of the King.
Antoine Coeffier, known as Ruzé, marquis d' Effiat, first rider of single Mister brother of the King.
Francois, count de Montberon, general lieutenant of the armies of the King.
Philippe-Auguste Hardy, marquis of the Case, captain-lieutenant of the Gendarme-dolphins, general lieutenant of the armies of the King.
François de Monestay, marquis de Chazeron, general lieutenant of the armies of the King.
Bernard of Guiche, count de Saint-Géran, general lieutenant of the armies of the King.
François d' Escoubleau, count de Sourdis, general lieutenant of the armies of the King.
Philippe-Emmanuel-Ferdinand-François de Croy, count de Solte, general lieutenant of the armies of the King.
Andre de Béthoulat de Cossagne, count of Vauguyon, adviser of State, ambassador in Spain.
George de Monchy, marquis d' Hocquincourt, general lieutenant of the armies of the King.
Olivier of Saint-Georges, marquis de Coüé-Vérac, lieutenant general and ordering for the King in Poitou.
Rene Martel, marquis d' Arcy, ambassador in Savoy, governor of Mr. the duke of Chartres and adviser of State.
Alexis-Henri de Châtillon, appointed marquis de Châtillon, first gentleman of the room of Sir, single brother of the King.
Nicolas Trawl-net of the Corn, marquis d' Uxelles, Marshal of France.
Rene de Froulay, count de Tessé, Marshal of France, first rider of Madam Dauphine and large one of Spain.
Charles de Mornay, marquis de Villarceaux, captain-lieutenant of Horse-light of Mister the Dolphin.
Charles of Prints, marquis de Mauny, lord Ferté-Imbaut, captain of the guards of Philippe de France, duke of Orleans.
Hyacinthe Quatrebarbes, marquis of Rongère, knight of honor of Madam, duchess of Orleans.
Jean d' Audibret, count de Lussan, first gentleman of the room of Mr. prince of Condé.

Twelfth promotion (Versailles, May 29th, 1689)

Prelate:

All Saints' day de Forbin, cardinal of Janson, bishop and count de Beauvais, Large chaplain of France after the death of the cardinal of Coislin, in 1706.

Thirteenth promotion (Versailles, February 2nd, 1693)

Knight:

Louis-Alexandre of Bourbon, legitimated France, count de Toulouse, par, admiral and Large huntsman of France.

Fourteenth promotion (Versailles, February 2nd, 1694)

Prelate:

Guillaume Egon de Furstemberg, cardinal, bishop and prince de Strasbourg.

The fifteenth promotion (Zolkiew, Russia, April 13rd, 1694)

Knight:

Henri of the Barn, marquis d' Arquien, since cardinal.

The sixteenth promotion (Versailles, May 22nd, 1695)

Knights:

Louis de France, duke of Burgundy, then Dolphin of Viennese.
Philippe de France, duke of Anjou, since king d' Espagne.

Seventeenth promotion (Versailles, January 1st, 1696)

Prelate:

François of Clermont-Thunder, bishop and count de Noyon, par of France.

Knights:

Louis de Guiscard, count of the Neuvy-on-Loire, marquis de Guiscard-Magny, governor of Sedan and Namur, lieutenant-general of the armies of the King.

The eighteenth promotion (Rome, December 4th, 1696)

Knight:

Antonio de Lanti of Rouère, Roman prince, duke of Mommars.

Nineteenth promotion (Versailles, January 1st, 1698)

Prelate:

Louis Antoine de Noailles, archbishop of Paris, duke of Saint-Cloud and even of France, since cardinal.

The twentieth promotion (Versailles, February 2nd, 1699)

Knight:

Charles of France, duke of Berri.

Twenty-and-unième promotion (Versailles, June 7th, 1699)

Knight:

Guido Vaïni, prince de Cantaloupe, duke of Selci.

Twenty-second promotion (Rome, December 19th, 1700)

Knights:

Alexandre Sobieski, prince de Pologne.
Constantin-Philippe-Vladislas Sobieski, brother of the precedent.

Twenty-third promotion (Versailles, May 15th, 1701)

Prelates:

Daniel de Cosnac, archbishop of Aix, first chaplain of Mister duke of Orleans.
Henri-Charles de Coislin, duke of Coislin, bishop of Metz, first chaplain of the King.

Knight:

Camille d' Hostun, marquis of Beaume, duke of Tallard, Marshal of France.

Twenty-fourth promotion (Versailles, February 2nd, 1703)

Knight:

Ferdinand, count de Marchin and of the Holy roman Empire, marquis de Clermont, Marshal of France.

The twenty-fifth promotion (Versailles, May 27th, 1703)

Knight:

Charles-Amédée Broglio, count de Revel, general lieutenant of the armies of the King.

Twenty-sixth promotion (Versailles, January 1st, 1705)

Prelate:

Jean d' Estrées, abbot of Évron, Courtyard and St-Claude, ambassador in Portugal.

Knight:

Roger Brulart, marquis de Sillery, Viscount of Puisieux, general lieutenant of the armies of the King, and ambassador extraordinary in Switzerland.

Twenty-seventh promotion (Versailles, February 2nd, 1705)

Knights:

Henri, duke of Harcourt, par and Marshal of France.
Victor Marie d' Estrées, count, then duke of Estrées, par, vice-admiral and Marshal of France, known as the marshal of Cœuvres then the marshal of Estrées .
Hector de Villars, duke of Villars, par and Marshal of France, large of Spain of the first class, knight of the Golden Fleece and governor of Provence.
Christmas Button, marquis de Chamilly, Marshal of France, governor of Strasbourg.
François-Louis de Rousselet, marquis de Châteaurenaut, vice-admiral and Marshal of France.
Sebastien Prestre, lord of Vauban, Marshal of France, general police chief of the fortifications.
Conrad de Rozen, count de Bolweiller, Marshal of France.
Nicolas-Auguste of the Balsam, marquis de Montrevel, marshal of: France.

Twenty-eighth promotion (Versailles, March 1st, 1705)

Knight:

Gift Isidore-Juan-Joseph-Domingo of Cueva and Benavides, marquis de Bedmar, large of Spain, general commander of the Netherlands, viceroy of Sicily.

Twenty-ninth promotion (Versailles, January 1st, 1709)

Knight:

Louis-Henri de Bourbon, duke of Enghien, prince de Condé, main Large par and of France, governor of Burgundy.

The thirtieth promotion (Versailles, January 1st, 1711)

Knights:

Louis-Armand of Bourbon, prince de Conti, par of France.
Jacques-Léonor Rouxel, baron de Médavi and count de Grancey, Marshal of France.
Léonor-Marie of Maine, count of the Borough, baron of Espinasse, Marshal of France, managing director of the cavalry.
François-Zénobe-Philippe Albergoti, general lieutenant of the armies of the King.
Louis-Vincent, marquis de Goësbriant, general lieutenant of the armies of the King.

Thirty-and-unième promotion (Versailles, December 2nd, 1712)

Knight:

Louis, duke of Aumont, par of France, marquis de Piennes, count de Berzé, etc, first gentleman of the Room of the King and ambassador extraordinary in England.

Thirty-second promotion (Versailles, June 7th, 1713)

Prelate:

Armand Gaston Maximilien, cardinal of Rohan, large chaplain of France, bishop and prince de Strasbourg.

Knights named under the reign of Louis XIV, and who died without to be received

Year 1643:

Roger de Bossost, baron d' Espenan.
Louis Goth, marquis de Rouillac, marshal of the camps and armies of the King.

Year 1644:

NR. prince de Carbognano, duke of Bassanello.
NR. of Soyecourt, marshal of the camps and armies of the King.

Year 1646:

Rostaing Antoine of Eure-of-Then Saint Martin's day, lord of Aiguebonne.
Antoine d' Estourmel, first rider of Madam the Duchess of Orleans.

Year 1648:

Vladislas IV, king de Pologne, knight of the Golden Fleece. -
Philippe of the Houdancourt Mound, Marshal of France.

Year 1649:

NR. marquis Trans.
Dominique Séguier, bishop of Meaux.

Year 1650:

NR. marquis d' Hautefort.
Claude Yves, marquis d' Allègre.

Year 1651:

Jacques, marquis de Castelnau, Marshal of France.
Roger-Hector de Pardaillan, marquis d' Antin.
Sebastien de Rosmadec, marquis de Molac.
Louis Châlon of Corn, marquis d' Huxelles.
Gabriel de Caumont, count de Lauzun.
François Sicaire, marquis de Bourdeilles.
Charles-Antoine of Tool bags, marquis de Sauvebeuf.
Jean-Pierre, marquis d' Aubeterre.
Louis de Caillebot, marquis of the Room.
NR. of Barrault.
Isaac de Pas, marquis de Feuquières.
François de Choiseul, marquis de Praslin.
Louis Olivier, marquis de Leuville.
NR. of Aumont.
Henri Bourcier de Barry of Saint-Alders.
François de Gontaut de Biron.
Georges Isauré, marquis d' Hervaut.
Philibert de Pompadour, marquis de Laurière.
Jean de Lambert.
Philippe, baron de Meillars.
Paul-Antoine de Cassagnet, marquis de Fimarcon.
Charles de Monchy, marquis d' Hocquincourt, Marshal of France.

Year 1652:

NR. of Hauterive.
NR. of Souillac de Maumeige.
NR. baron de Clairavault.
Louis de Bridieu.
Hilaire of Laval, marquis de Trèves.
Achilles de Harlay, marquis de Bréval-Chanvalon.
François-Marie de Broglio de Revel.
François of Béraudière.
Odet de Harcourt, count de Croisy.
NR., marquis de Cauvisson.
Armand-Jean Mitte, marquis of Saint-Chaumont.
Nicolas Dauvet, count Desmarêts, Large falconer of France.
Antoine-François de Lamet.

Year 1653:

NR., marquis of the Nozzle, count de Moret.
Francois, count d' Estain.

Year 1658:

Jean de Peyre, count de Troisvilles.

Year 1661:

Abraham de Fabert d' Esternay, Marshal of France, governor of Sedan, named knight of the Orders of the King, did not benefit from this honor, " not estant in the case of to prove reliable. The letter whose Its Majesty honoured it on the invincibility of this obstacle expresses the size and the kindness of the Master and perpetuates the merit of the subject. " (Catalog of the Knights about the Holy Spirit, p. 306.)

Year 1703:

Gift Juan-Claro-Alonzo-Perez de Gusman el Bueno, XIe duke of Medina Sidonia.
Gift Francisco Casimiro Antonio Alphonso Pimentel de Quinonez de Benavides, XIIe count de Benavente.
Gift Fabrice de Tolède-Osorio, marquis of Villa-Franca, large of Spain.
Don Juan Francesco Pacheco Gum of Sandoval, count de Montalvan, etc
Don Louis Emmanuel Ferdinand de Portocarrero, cardinal archbishop of Tolède.

Year 1708:

Joseph-Emmanuel of Tremoille de Noirmoustier, cardinal archbishop of Cambray.

Louis XV

Fifth chief and main Large sovereign about the Holy Spirit, Louis XV accepted the collar of the Order the shortly after his sacring, in Rheims, on October 27th, 1722.

The first promotion (July 26th, 1717)

made in Versailles, whose reception was done in Madrid:

Louis of Spain, King d' Espagne, then prince of Asturies.
Rostain Cantelini, duke of Popoli, prince de Pettorano, Master of artillery of the kingdom of Naples.

The second promotion (October 27th, 1722)

Knights:

Louis of Orleans (1703-1752), Duke of Orleans, then Duke of Chartres, First prince of blood and first par of France.
Charles of Bourbon-Charolais, count de Charolais.

The third promotion (June 3rd, 1724, Versailles)

Prelates:

Henri-Pons de Thiard de Bissy, cardinal-bishop of Meaux.
Leon Potter of Gesvres, archbishop of Bourges, then cardinal, abbot of S. Remi of Rheims.
François-Paul de Neufville-Villeroi, archbishop of Lyon, primacy of Gaules.
Charles-Gaspar-Guillaume de Vintimille, of the counts de Marseille, archbishop of Aix, then of Paris, duke of Saint-Cloud and par of France.
Rene François de Beauvau, archbishop of Narbonne.

Knights:

Louis de Bourbon-Cop (1709-1771), count of Clermont-in-Argonne.
Charles of Lorraine, known as prince Charles, Master of the Horse of France.
Charles-Louis of Lorraine, prince de Mortagne, lord de Pons, general lieutenant of the armies of the King.
Jean-Charles de Crussol, duke of Uzès, first par of France, governor of Saintonge and Angoumois.
Maximilien-Henri de Béthune, duke of Sully, par of France, prince d' Enrichemont, governor of Mantes.
Louis-Antoine de Brancas, duke of Villars, par of France, count de Lauragais.
Francois, duke of Rochefoucauld, par of France, Large main of the wardrobe of the King.
Charles-François-Frederic of Montmorency-Luxembourg, duke of Piney-Luxembourg, par of France, governor of Normandy.
Louis Nicolas de Neufville de Villeroy, duke of Villeroy, par of France, captain of the Bodyguards.
Louis de Rochechouart, duke of Mortemart, par of France, first gentleman of the Room of the King.
Paul-Hippolyte de Beauvillier, duke of Saint-Aignan, par of France, first gentleman of the Room of the King and governor of the Hâvre-of-Grace.
François-Bernard Potier, duke of Tresme, par of France, first gentleman of the Room of the King.
Adrien Maurice de Noailles, duke of Noailles, par of France, knight of the Golden Fleece, large of Spain of the first class, captain of the first company of the Bodyguards and governor of Roussillon.
Armand de Béthune, duke of Charost, par of France, captain of the Bodyguards.
Jacques Fitz-James, duke of Berwick, Fitz-James, Léria and Xérica, par of France and England, large of Spain of the first class, knight of and the Golden Fleece Orders of the Garter, Marshal of France.
Louis Antoine de Pardaillan de Gondrin, Duke of Antin, marquis de Montespan, par of France, governor of Orléanais.
Louis-Auguste of Albert-of Ailly, duke of Chaulnes, par of France, captain-lieutenant of Horse-light of the guard.
Marie-Joseph, duke of Hostun, count de Tallard, par of France, governor of the county of Burgundy.
Louis de Brancas, of the counts de Forcalquier, count de Cereste, known as the marquis de Brancas, large of Spain, knight of the Golden Fleece, etc, Marshal of France.
Jacques Bazin, lord of Bezons, Marshal of France, Cambric governor.
Pierre de Montesquiou d' Artagnan, Marshal of France, governor of the city and citadel of Arras.
Louis-Nicolas Tellier, marquis de Souvré, Master of the wardrobe of the King.
Blood Louis, marquis de Livry, first Master of hotel of the King.
Goyon Louis-Jean-Baptist of Matignon, known as the count of Matignon, count de Gacé, governor of the country of Aunis.
Anne-Jacques de Bullion, marquis de Fervaques, governor of Maine.
Charles-François de Vintimille of the Luc, the counts de Marseille, count of the Luc, adviser of State of sword, lieutenant of the king in Provence.
Louis de Prie, marquis de Planès, known as the marquis of Prie, ambassador in Turin.
Louis de Mailly, marquis de Nesle and of Mailly in Boulonois, prince d' Orange.
François-Marie de Hautefort, marquis de Hautefort, of Pompadour and Sarcelles, general lieutenant of the armies of the King.
Joseph de Montesquiou, known as the count d' Artagnan, general lieutenant of the armies of the King and captain-lieutenant of the first company of the Musketeers.
Francois, count d' Estaing, marquis de Murole, general lieutenant of the armies of the King.
Armand de Madaillan of Lesparre, marquis de Lassay, general lieutenant with the government of Bresse and Bugey.
Pierre Bouchard d' Esparbez de Lussan, count d' Aubeterre, general lieutenant of the armies of the King.
Joachim de Montaigu, Viscount of Beaune, marquis de Bouzoles, general lieutenant of the armies of the King and the province of Auvergne.
François de Franquetot, count de Coigny, general lieutenant of the armies of the King and colonel-general of the dragons, since duke of Coigny and Marshal of France.
Jean de Montboisier, count de Canillac, general lieutenant of the armies of the King, captain-lieutenant of the second company of the Musketeers and governor of the cities and citadels of Amiens and Corbie.
Jacques-Joseph Vipart, marquis de Silly, adviser of State of sword, general lieutenant of the armies of the King.
Jacques de Cassagnet-Tilladet-Narbonne, marquis de Fimarcon, general lieutenant of the armies of the King and the province of Roussillon, governor of Mount-Louis.
Henri de Saint-Nectaire, known as the marquis de Sennecterre, general lieutenant of the armies of the King and ambassador in England.
Pierre-Magdeleine de Beauvau, count de Beauvau, general lieutenant of the armies of the King.
Louis of Ghent-of-Mérode Montmorency, prince d' Isenghien, general lieutenant of the armies of the King.
Louis-Pierre Engilbert of the Marck-Bubble, known as the count of Marck, general lieutenant of the armies of the King.
César of Saint-Georges, marquis de Coué-Vérac, general lieutenant of the armies of the King and the province of Poitou.
Alain-Emmanuel, marquis de Coëtlogon, marshal and vice-admiral of France, Grand Cross about Saint-Louis.
Jean-Baptist-François of Marets, marquis de Maillebois, Master of the wardrobe of the King, general lieutenant of Languedoc and governor of Saint-Omer.
Charles-Henri Gaspard de Saulx, Viscount of Tavannes, general lieutenant of the province of Burgundy.
Gaspard of Clermont-Thunder, marquis de Vauvillars and of Crusy, general police chief of the cavalry, since Marshal of France.
François de Simiane, marquis d' Esparron, first gentleman of the room of the duke of Orleans.
Joseph-François of the Cross, marquis de Castries, knight of honor of Madam the duchess of Orleans, governor and seneshal of Montpellier.
Pierre-Gaspar, marquis de Clermont-Gallerande, first rider of the duke of Orleans, sergeant of the armies of the King and baillif de Dôle.

The fourth promotion (January 1st, 1725)

Knight:

Marie-Thomas-Auguste Goyon, knight marquis de Matignon, baron de Briquebec, count de Gacé, sergeant of the armies of the King.

The fifth promotion (January 1st, 1726)

Knight:

Michel Carlo de Teczin and Ozekarzowitz, count de Melszrin and of Zakliczin, colonel of the guards of Stanislas king de Pologne, general lieutenant of the armies of the King.

The sixth promotion (Versailles, February 2nd, 1728)

Knights:

Louis Auguste of Bourbon (1700-1755), prince de Dombes, general colonel of Swiss and Grison.
Louis Charles of Bourbon (1701-1775), count of Have, Large Master of artillery of France.
Louis de Rouvroy, duke of Saint-Simon, par of France, large of Spain of the first class and ambassador extraordinary in Spain.
Antoine Gaston de Roquelaure, duke of Roquelaure, marquis de Biran, Marshal of France.
Yves of Alegre, marquis d' Alègre and baron de Tourzel, Marshal of France.
Louis, count, then duke of Gramont, sergeant of the armies of the King, lieutenant-general and colonel of the regiment of the French Guards.

The seventh promotion (Versailles, May 16th, 1728)

Knights:

Jacques-Henri of Lorraine, prince de Lixen, Large host of the duke of Lorraine, sergeant of the armies of the King.
Alexandre of Rochefoucauld, duke of the Rock-Guyon, par of France, Large main of the wardrobe of the King and sergeant of his armies.
Louis-Antoine-Armand, duke of Gramont, par of France, general lieutenant of the armies of the King, colonel of the French Guards.
François-Joachim-Bernard Potier, duke of Gesvres, par of France, first gentleman of the Room of the King.
Paul-François de Béthune, duke of Charost, par of France, captain of the Bodyguards of the King and general lieutenant in his armies.
Francois, duke of Harcourt, par of France, captain of the Bodyguards of the King and his general lieutenant in the county of Burgundy.
Rene Mans, lord de Froulai, count de Tessé, large of Spain, general lieutenant of the armies of the King, first rider of the Queen.
Louis-Armand de Brichanteau, marquis de Nangis, lieutenant-general of the armies of the King, knight of honor of the Queen.

The eighth promotion (Versailles, January 1st, 1729)

Knight:

Louis François Armand de Vignerot of Plessis, Duke of Richelieu and Fronsac, first gentleman of the Room of the King, even and Marshal of France.

The ninth promotion (Seville, Spain, April 25th, 1729)

Knights:

Ferdinand, prince of Asturies, wire of Philippe de France, duke of Anjou then king d' Espagne.
Charles, infant of Spain, duke of Parma and Pleasure, prince hereditary of Tuscany, king of Deux-Siciles in 1735 and king d' Espagne in 1759.
Joseph-Marie Tellez-Bosom, VIIe duke of Ossone, large of Spain of the first class, ambassador extraordinary in France.
Handbook-Dominique de Benavides, of Arragon-the-Cueva-Biedma-to Avila-Corella, Xe count de Sant-Istevan, large of Spain, plenipotentiary of Spain to the Cambric congress.
Alonzo-Manrique de Solis and of Vivero, duke del Arco, large of Spain, knight of Fleece-in Or, large and first rider of king d' Espagne.
Antoine-Michel-Joseph-Nicolas-Louis-François-Gaspard Giudice and Papacoda, third duke of Jovenazzo, prince de Cellamare, large of Spain, knight about Saint-Jacob, governor and general captain of the Castille Old woman, Master of the Horse of the queen of Spain, ambassador extraordinary in France.

The tenth promotion (Versailles, February 2nd, 1731)

Knights:

Charles-Eugene de Lévis, duke of Lévis, par of France, count de Charlus and of Bleed, general lieutenant of the armies of the King.
Christian-Louis of Montmorency-Luxembourg, prince de Tingry, sovereign count of Luxury, general lieutenant of the armies of the King.
Alexandre-Magdeleine-Rosalie de Châtillon, baron d' Argenton, known as the count de Châtillon, large baillif d' Haguenau, general lieutenant of the armies of the King.
Henri-Camille, marquis de Beringhen, of Châteauneuf and Uxelles, first rider of the King.

The eleventh promotion (Versailles, May 13rd, 1731)

Knights:

Jean-Baptiste de Durfort, duke of Lasted, count de Rozan, baron de Pujols, general lieutenant of the armies of the King and later Marshal of France.
François-Marie de Broglie, count de Revel, baron de Ferrières, since duke of Broglie and Marshal of France.
Philippe Charles of Fare, marquis of Fare, knight about Fleece-in Or, marshal of the camps and armies of the King, general lieutenant in the province of Languedoc.

Twelfth promotion (Versailles, January 1st, 1733)

Prelate:

Nickel silver of Polignac, cardinal priest of the title of Sainte-Marie of the Angels to the Thermal baths of Dioclétien, archbishop of Auch.

Knight:

Louis François of Bourbon-Conti, prince de Conti, duke of Mercoeur, par of France.

Thirteenth promotion (Versailles, May 24th, 1733)

Prelates:

Armand-Pierre of the Cross of Castries, archbishop of Albi.
Henri Oswald of the Tower of Auvergne, the dukes of Bubble, archbishop of Vienna, first chaplain of the King and later cardinal.

Fourteenth promotion (Versailles, January 1st, 1735)

Knight:

Charles Louis Auguste Fouquet of Beautiful-Isle, count de Gisors, prince of the Holy roman Empire, knight of Fleece-in Or, Marshal of France and Minister for the War.

The fifteenth promotion (Madrid, Spain, March 22nd, 1736)

Knights:

Philippe, infant of Spain, later duke of Parma and Pleasure.
Alvarez-Antoine de Bazan-Benavidez, marquis de Santa-Cruz, large of Spain, knight of Fleece-in Or, etc

The sixteenth promotion (Versailles, May 20th, 1736)

Knight:

Jean-Hercules de Rosset, marquis de Rocozel, baron de Pérignan, since duke of Fleury and par of France.

Seventeenth promotion (Versailles, February 2nd, 1737)

Knights:

François-Louis de Neufville, duke of Villeroi, par of France, captain of the Bodyguards.
Charles-Armand-Dominique de Gontault, duke of Biron, par and Marshal of France.
François-Maximilien, count de Teczin, duke Ossolinski, prince of the Empire, above Large treasurer of Poland.
Antoine-Felix, marquis de Monti, general lieutenant of the armies of the King, ambassador extraordinary in Poland.

The eighteenth promotion (Rome, September 15th, 1737)

Knight:

Jerome Vaini, prince de Cantaloupe, duke of Selci.

Nineteenth promotion (Versailles, May 17th, 1739)

Knights:

Jacques de Chastenet de Puységur, count de Chessy, Marshal of France.
Claude-Theophilus de Béziade, marquis of the Avarey-on-Loire, general lieutenant of the armies of the King, governor of the city and castle of Fibula.
Louis de Regnier, marquis de Guerchy, general lieutenant of the armies of the King.
Antoine of Makes, marquis de Savine, general lieutenant of the armies of the King and managing director of the cavalry.
François de Briqueville, count of the Alfalfa, lord of Monfreville, general lieutenant of the armies of the King, vice-admiral of Ponent.
Louis-Dominique de Cambis, marquis de Cambis-Velleron, general lieutenant of the armies of the King, ambassador in England.
Jacques de Monceaux of Auxy, marquis d' Auxy, colonel of the Royal-comtois regiment.

The twentieth promotion (Versailles on January 1st, 1740)

Knight:

Jacques-Handbook-Michel de Guzman Spinola d' Avalos Palavicin-Santillan and Mezin, marquis of Mined, knight of the Golden Fleece, ambassador of King d' Espagne near the King of France.

Twenty-and-unième promotion (Versailles, February 2nd, 1740)

Knight:

Gabriel-Jacques de Salignac of Mothe-Fenélon, marquis de Fenélon, general lieutenant of the armies of the King, ambassador in Holland.

Twenty-second promotion (Versailles, June 5th, 1740)

Knight:

Louis Philippe of Orleans (1725-1785), then duke of Chartres, since Duke of Orleans, first prince of blood and in this even first quality of France.

Twenty-third promotion (Versailles, February 2nd, 1741)

Knight:

Gaston-Charles-Pierre de Lévis de Lomagne, marquis de Mirepoix, marshal-hereditary of the Faith, since and captain Marshal of France of the Bodyguards.

Twenty-fourth promotion (Versailles, February 2nd, 1742)

Prelates:

Frederic Jerome of Rochefoucauld of Roye (1701 - 1757), archbishop of Bourges, which was then cardinal and Grand chaplain of France.
Gilbert de Montmorin de Saint-Herem, bishop duke of Langres, par of France.

Knight:

Louis Jean Marie de Bourbon, duke of Penthièvre, admiral de France and Large huntsman.

The twenty-fifth promotion (Fontainebleau, May 13rd, 1742)

Prelate:

Jean-Louis de Berton de Crillon, archbishop and primacy of Narbonne.

Knight:

Louis de France (1729-1765), dolphin of Viennese, only sons of the King and presumptive heir to the crown.

Twenty-sixth promotion (Versailles, January 1st, 1743)

Prelate:

Pierre-Guerin de Tencin, cardinal, archbishop count de Lyon, primacy of Gaules, minister of state.

Twenty-seventh promotion (Versailles, June 2nd, 1743)

Knight:

Jean de Gassion, knight marquis de Gassion and of Alluye, general lieutenant of the armies of the King.

Twenty-eighth promotion (Versailles, January 1st, 1744)

Knights:

Jean-Paul-Thimoléon de Cossé, due of Brissac, par and Large pannetier of France.
Charles-François-Frederic of Montmorency-Luxembourg, duke of Luxembourg, Piney and Montmorency, par and Marshal of France, captain of the Bodyguards.
Joseph-Marie de Bouflers, duke of Bouflers, par of France, general lieutenant for the King of the provinces of Flanders and Hainault.
Louis-Charles, count of Mothe-Houdancourt, large of Spain of the first class, knight of honor of the Queen, since Marshal of France.
Louis-Antoine de Gontaut de Biron, duke of Biron, par and Marshal of France.
Daniel-François, count de Gélas of Amber Neighbors, known as the count de Lautrec, general lieutenant of the armies of the King, general inspector of the infantry, since Marshal of France.
Jean-Antoine-François de Franquetot, count de Coigny, general colonel of the dragons.

Twenty-ninth promotion (Versailles, January 6th, 1745)

Prelate:

Armand de Rohan, cardinal of Soubise, bishop and prince de Strasbourg, Large chaplain of France.

The thirtieth promotion (Versailles, February 2nd, 1745)

Knights:

Louis-Marie-with Aumont, duke of Aumont, par of France, first gentleman of the Room of the King, since general lieutenant of the armies of the King and governor of Bolted.
GUI Michel de Durfort de Lorges, duke of Randan, general lieutenant of the armies of the King.
Charles-Louis de Montsaulnin, count de Montal, general lieutenant of the armies of the King.
Jean-Charles de Sennectaire or Sennetaire, knight-marquis de Sennectaire and Brinon, general lieutenant of the armies of the King, since Marshal of France.
Henri-Louis de Choiseul, marquis de Meuze, general lieutenant of the armies of the King.
Henri-Charles de Saulx, count de Tavannes, marquis de Trichâteau, general lieutenant for the King in Burgundy.

Thirty-and-unième promotion (Versailles, January 1st, 1746)

Knight:

Louis Riggio Saladino-Branciforti-Colonna, prince de Campo-Florido, large of Spain of the first class, general captain of the guards of His catholic Majesty, ambassador in France.

Thirty-second promotion (Versailles, February 2nd, 1746)

Prelate:

Louis-Jacques de Chapt de Rastignac, archbishop of Turns.

Knights:

Nicolas-Joseph-Balthasar de Langlade, Viscount of Chayla, general lieutenant of the armies of the King, managing director of the cavalry.
Ulrich Frederic Woldemar de Lowendal, general Lieutenant of the armies of the King, Marshal of France.
Pierre de Bérenger, count de Charmes and of Gua, general lieutenant of the armies of the King.
Louis Charles César Tellier, count d' Estrées, baron de Montmirail, general inspector of the cavalry, general lieutenant of the armies of the King and since Marshal of France.
Claude Annet d' Apchier, known as the count d' Apchier, general lieutenant of the armies of the King.

Thirty-third promotion (Versailles, January 1st, 1747)

Knights:

Charles O-Brien, count de Thomond, Viscount of Clare, par of the kingdom of Ireland, general lieutenant of the armies of the King, since Marshal of France.
Jacques-François Milano Franco-Arragon, second prince d' Ardore and of the Holy roman Empire, gentleman of the room of the King of Deux-Siciles and his ambassador in France.

Thirty-fourth promotion (Versailles, January 1st, 1748)

Prelates:

Christophe de Beaumont of the Den, archbishop of Paris, duke of Saint-Cloud and par of France.
Nicolas de Saulx-Tavannes, archbishop of Rouen, par of France, since cardinal and Large chaplain of France.
Abraham-Louis de Harcourt, marquis de Beuvron, abbot of NR. - D. of Signy and Saint-Taurin, former senior of the church of Paris.

Thirty-fifth promotion (Versailles, February 2nd, 1748)

Knights:

Charles-Philippe d' Albert, duke of Luynes, count de Tours and of Montfort-l' Amaury, par of France.
Jean-Hector de Fay, marquis of the Turn-Maubourg, general lieutenant of the armies of the King, general inspector of the infantry, since Marshal of France.
François de Bulkeley, known as the count de Bulkeley, general lieutenant of the armies of the King.
Henri François de Ségur, count de Ségur, general Lieutenant of the armies of the King, general inspector of the cavalry and the dragons.
Louis Philogène Brûlart de Sillery, marquis de Puissieux and of Sillery, Secretary of foreign affairs.

Thirty-sixth promotion (Versailles, January 1st, 1749)

Knight:

Alphonse-Marie-Louis, count of Saint-Severin d' Arragon, ambassador plenipotentiary for the King to the conferences of Aachen.

Thirty-seventh promotion (Versailles, February 2nd, 1749)

Knights:

Louis de Noailles, Duke of Ayen, marquis de Maintenon, Marshal of France, captain of the first company of the Bodyguards of the King, governor of Roussillon.
Louis-Armand-François of Rochefoucauld, duke of Estissac, large main of the Wardrobe of the King.
François-Marie de Villers Faye, count de Vaulgrenant, ambassador plenipotentiary in Dresden, ambassador extraordinary close the king of Spain.

Thirty-eighth promotion (Versailles, May 25th, 1749)

Knights:

Louis César of the Balsam the White, duke of Vallière, par and Large falconer of France.
Charles-François, marquis de Sassenage, knight of honor of Madam Dauphine.
Louis, count de Mailly, general lieutenant of the armies of the King, first rider of Madam Dauphine.
Anne-Leon, baron de Montmorency, chief of the names and weapons of its house, general lieutenant of the armies of the King.
Louis de Talaru, marquis de Chalmazel, chief petty officer of hotel of the Queen.
François-Louis Tellier, count de Rebellac, marquis de Souvré and of Louvois, general lieutenant of the armies of the King.

Thirty-ninth promotion (Versailles, May 17th, 1750)

Knight:

Louis François Joseph of Bourbon-Conti, Prince de Conti, count of Walk.

The fortieth promotion (Versailles, February 2nd, 1751)

Knight:

Michel-Ferdinand d' Ale Albert, duke of Chaulnes, par of France, general lieutenant of the armies of the King, governor of Picardy and Artois.

Forty-and-unième promotion (Versailles, February 2nd, 1752)

Knight:

Louis V Joseph de Bourbon-Cop, Prince de Condé.

Forty-second promotion (Versailles, May 21st, 1752)

Knights:

Louis-Charles of Lorraine, count de Brionne and of Charny, Master of the Horse of France.
Mazarini-Mancini Louis-Jules-Greybeard, duke of Nivernois, par of France, large of Spain of the first class, ambassador extraordinary in Rome.

Forty-third promotion (Versailles, January 1st, 1753)

Knight:

Emmanuel d' Hautefort, marquis d' Hautefort and of Sarcelles, count de Montignac, marshal of the camps and armies of the King, ambassador extraordinary near the Emperor.

Forty-fourth promotion (Versailles, February 2nd, 1753)

Knights:

Andre-Hercules de Rosset, duke of Fleury, par of France, general lieutenant of the armies of the King, first gentleman of the Room of His Majesty.
Bufile-Hyacinthe-All Saints' day de Brancas, of the counts de Forcalquier, count de Céreste.
Paul-Gallucio of the Hospital, marquis of Châteauneuf-on-Expensive, general lieutenant of the armies of the King, his ambassador extraordinary with Saint-Pétersbourg, general inspector of the cavalry and the dragons.
Antoine-Paul-Jacques de Quélen, prince de Carency, count of Vauguyon, general lieutenant of the armies of the King, governor of the children of France, first gentleman of the Room of the King, main Grand of his guard wrap.
Louis de Conflans, marquis d' Armantières, Marshal of France.
Pierre-Emmanuel, marquis de Crussol, marshal of the camps and armies of the King, his ambassador plenipotentiary in Parma.

Forty-fifth promotion (Versailles, June 10th, 1753)

Prelates:

Charles-Antoine of the Rock-Aimon, archbishop of Narbonne, then of Rheims, and, in this quality, ecclesiastical even first, Large chaplain of France and cardinal, charged with the sheet of the benefit.
Louis-Constantin de Rohan, bishop prince de Strasbourg, Large chaplain of France, cardinal.
François-Claude of Beaufort-Montboissier-Canillac, listener of the court of Rote, in Rome.

Forty-sixth promotion (Versailles, February 2nd, 1756)

Knights:

Camille-Louis of Lorraine, known as prince Camille, lord de Pons, prince de Mortagne, etc, marshal of the camps and armies of the King, since general lieutenant.
Anne-Pierre, duke of Harcourt, par and Marshal of France, general lieutenant of the province of Normandy.
Charles de Fitzjames, duke of Fitzjames-Warti, par of France, general lieutenant of the armies of the King.
Emmanuel Armand de Vignerot of Plessis, duke of Pivot, par of France, general lieutenant of the armies of the King, commander-in-chief in Brittany, minister and Secretary of State at the departments of the Foreign affairs and the War.

Forty-seventh promotion (Versailles, June 6th, 1756)

Knights:

Jacques-Antoine, count of S. Vital and Fontanellato, marquis de Belleforte, etc, knight of honor of the infante duchess of Parma.
Joseph-Alexandre, of the dukes of Prussia Jablonouski, prince of the Empire, palatine general of Novogorod, large seneshal of the duchy of Lithuania.

Forty-eighth promotion (Versailles, January 1st, 1757)

Knight:

Francois, of the counts de Baschi, count de Baschi-Saint-Estève, ambassador of His Majesty near the king of Portugal.

Forty-ninth promotion (Versailles, February 2nd, 1757)

Knights:

Charles Juste of Beauvau-Craon, prince of the Holy roman Empire, large of Spain of the first class, captain of the Bodyguards, marshal of the camps and armies of the King.
Charles-Antoine-Armand de Gontault-Biron, duke of Gontault, general lieutenant of the armies of the King.
Jean-Marie of Marets, known as the count de Maillebois, Master of the wardrobe of the King, general lieutenant of his armies and the province of Languedoc.
Armand, marquis de Béthune and of Chabris, Mestre of general camp of the light cavalry of France, since general colonel of the same cavalry.
Joseph-Henri of Esparbès-of-Lussan-Bouchard, marquis d' Aubeterre, marshal of the camps and armies of the King, ambassador in Spain.
Charles-François de Broglie, known as the count de Broglie, ambassador extraordinary close the King and the Republic of Poland, first colonel attached to pomegranates of France.

The fiftieth promotion (Versailles, May 29th, 1757)

Knight:

Etienne François de Choiseul, duke of Choiseul, par of France, marshal of the camps and armies of the king, ambassador extraordinary in Rome and Vienna, Foreign Minister.

Fifty-and-unième promotion (Versailles, May 14th, 1758)

Prelate:

François-Joachim of Pierre de Bernis, cardinal, archbishop of Albi, Foreign Minister.

Fifty-second promotion (Versailles, January 1st, 1759)

Prelate:

Paul d' Albert de Luynes, cardinal, archbishop of Direction, primacy of Gaules and the Germanic one.

Fifty-third promotion (Versailles, February 2nd, 1759)

Prelate:

Etienne-Rene Potter of Gesvres, cardinal, bishop count de Beauvais, par of France.

Knights:

Marie-Charles-Louis d' Albert, duke of Luynes and Chevreuse, par of France, general colonel of the dragons, governor and general lieutenant for the King of the city, prévôté and Viscount of Paris.
Louis Georges Érasme de Contades, known as the marquis de Contades, Marshal of France.
Louis-Robert Mallet de Graville, called the count de Graville, count de Chamilly, general lieutenant of the armies of the King, general inspector of the cavalry and the dragons, commander-in-chief in the province of Roussillon, Conflans and Cerdagne.
François-Charles, count de Rochechouart, called count de Rochechouart, marquis de Faudoas, general lieutenant of the armies of the King, governor of Orleans and Orléanais, ambassador plenipotentiary close infant Gift Philippe, duke of Parma.
Claude-Louis-François Regnier, count de Guerchy, general lieutenant of the armies of the King.
Emmanuel de Croy, prince of the Holy roman Empire, marshal of the camps and armies of the King, ordering for His Majesty in Artois, Picardy, Calaisis and Boulonnais.
Hyacinthe-Cajetan de Lannion, called count de Lannion, baron de Malestroit, par of Brittany, president-born of the States of the aforesaid the province, governor and general lieutenant for Isle de Minorque.

Fifty-fourth promotion (May 18th, 1760)

Knight:

Charles-Antoine-Pascal-François-Xavier-Jean-Népomucène-Joseph-January-Seraph-Diegue, prince of Asturies, oldest son of the king Charles III.

Fifty-fifth promotion (July 21st, 1760)

Knight:

Gift Louis-Antoine-Jacques, infant of Spain, wire of Philippe V and Elisabeth Farnèse.

Fifty-sixth promotion (July 22nd, 1760)

Knights:

Philippe Portocarrero, count de Montijo, gentleman of the room of king d' Espagne.
François de Tolède and Silva, duke D Alba.

Fifty-seventh promotion (September 8th, 1760)

Knight:

Ferdinand IV, king of Deux-Siciles.

Fifty-eighth promotion (Versailles, May 10th, 1761)

Prelate:

Louis-Sextius de Jarente of the Heather, bishop of Orleans.

Fifty-ninth promotion (Versailles, January 1st, 1762)

Knight:

César Gabriel de Choiseul-Praslin, duke of Praslin, par of France, ambassador close Their imperial and royal Majesties, Foreign Minister.

The sixtieth promotion (Versailles, February 2nd, 1762)

Knights:

Victor-François, duke of Broglie, Marshal of France.
Paul-Jerome, duke of Grimaldi, ambassador extraordinary of His Catholic Majesty near the King of France.

Sixty-and-unième promotion (Versailles, May 30th, 1762)

Prelate:

Jean-François-Joseph de Rochechouart, bishop duke of Laon, and, in this quality, ecclesiastical even second of the kingdom, cardinal.

Knights:

Louis Philippe of Orleans (1747-1793), duke of Chartres.
Charles Eugene Gabriel of the Cross of Castries, marquis de Castries, Marshal of France, minister and Secretary of State to the department of the Navy, general commander and inspector of the body of the gendarmerie.

Sixty-second promotion (August 25th, 1762)

Knight:

Gift Ferdinand, infant of Spain, hereditary prince of Parma.

Sixty-third promotion (Versailles, February 2nd, 1763)

Knight:

Louis Alexandre of Bourbon (1747-1768), prince de Lamballe.

Sixty-fourth promotion (Versailles, February 2nd, 1764)

Knights:

Charles-Gaspar-Michel, count de Saulx-Tavannes, general lieutenant of the armies of the King, general lieutenant to the government of the duchy of Burgundy, knight of honor of the Queen.
Louis Nicolas Victor of Felix d' Ollières, count of Muy, Marshal of France, minister and Secretary of State at the department of the War.

Sixty-fifth promotion (Versailles, June 10th, 1764)

Knight:

Louis-Marie-Florent, duke of Chastelet-Lomont, ambassador close the Emperor and the Empress-Queen.

Sixty-sixth promotion (Versailles, January 1st, 1767)

Knight:

Charles-Henri, count d' Estaing, vice-admiral of France, general lieutenant of the armies of the King.

Sixty-seventh promotion (February 2nd, 1767)

Knights:

Louis-Auguste, Dolphin of France (Louis XVI).
Louis-Stanislas-Xavier de France, count de Provence.
Emmanuel-Happiness of Durfort, duke of Lasted, even and Marshal of France, first, gentleman of the Room of the King.
Joachim-Athanase Pignatelli d' Aragon, count de Fuentes, large of Spain of first class, ambassador extraordinary and plenipotentiary of His Catholic Majesty near the King of France.

Sixty-eighth promotion (Versailles, June 7th, 1767)

Knights:

Philippe de Noailles, Duke of Mouchy, Marshal of France, large of Spain of first class.
Marie de Talleyrand, count de Périgord, large of Spain of first class, marshal of the camps and armies of the King, governor and general lieutenant of the province Top and Low Berri.
Louis-Paul, marquis de Brancas, large of Spain of first class, general lieutenant of the armies of the King, general lieutenant to the government of Provence.
Claude-Guillaume Testu, marquis de Balincourt, Marshal of France.
Charles-François-Christian of Montmorency-Luxembourg, prince de Tingry, general lieutenant of the armies of the King, captain of the Bodyguards of His Majesty.
Charles-Léonard de Baylens, marquis de Poyanne, general lieutenant of the armies of the King, Mestre-of-camp, inspector and ordering body of the police officers.
Emmanuel-Louis-Auguste, count of Pons-Saint-Maurice, general lieutenant of the armies of the King, first gentleman of the duke of Orleans.
Philippe Henri de Ségur, marquis de Ségur, since Marshal of France and Secretary of State to the War.

Sixty-ninth promotion (January 1st, 1768)

Knight:

Jules-César Barberini, prince de Palestrino.

The seventieth promotion (May 22nd, 1768)

Knight:

Gift François-Xavier, infant of Spain.

the Sixty-and-eleventh promotion (Versailles, January 1st, 1771)

Knight:

Charles-Philippe de France, count d' Artois, brother of the King.

Prelate:

Jean-Joseph Vault of Jumillac-Saint-Jean, archbishop of Arles.

Sixty-twelfth promotion (Versailles, January 1st, 1773)

Knights:

Louis VI Henri de Bourbon-Cop, Duke of Bourbon.
Gabriel Louis François de Neufville de Villeroy, duke of Villeroy and Retz, par of France, captain of the first French company of the Bodyguards of the King, general lieutenant of his armies, governor of the town of Lyon of the provinces of Lyonnois, Drill and Beaujolois.
Louis Potter of Gesvres, duke of Tresmes, par of France, general lieutenant of the armies of the King, governor and general lieutenant for the King of the province of the Ile de France.
Colbert Jean-Baptist-Joachim, marquis de Croissy, general lieutenant of the armies of the King.
Louis de Bouchet, marquis de Sourches, general lieutenant of the armies of the King, large provost of France.
Jean-Baptist-François, marquis de Montmorin de Saint-Hérem, general lieutenant of the armies of the King.

Sixty-thirteenth promotion (Versailles, January 1st, 1776)

Knights:

Jean-Louis-Roger de Rochechouart

Prelate and Knights named under the reign of Louis XV and who died without to be received

Year 1724:

Prelate:

Philippe-Antoine Gualterio, cardinal, apostolic nuncio, bishop of Todi, abbot of Saint-Victor-the-Paris and Saint-Remy cheese of Rheims.

Knights:

Antoine Grimaldi, prince de Monaco, duke of Valentinois, par of France.
Charles-Auguste Goyon of Matignon, Marshal of France (awaited its great age, the King named in its place the marquis of Matignon its son, which was accepted on January 1st, 1725.)
the count d' Altamira.
François-Marie Spinola, duke of Saint-Pierre, large of Spain.

Year 1725:

Stanislas Leszczyński, king de Pologne.

Year 1731:

Conrad-Alexandre, count de Rottembourg.

Year 1745:

François Marie of Este-Modena, Duke of Modena.

Year 1746:

Christophe Portocarrero, fifth count de Montijo, large of Spain, marshal of Castille, etc
Annibal Déodat, marquis de Scotti, etc

Year 1748:

Anne-Louis de Thiard, marquis de Bissy, general Mestre-of-camp of the cavalry, named knight of the Orders of the King in an extraordinary chapter held by Its Majesty in Choisy, on May 4th, 1748. This nomination was cancelled because the general had died the wound day before which it had received with the seat of Maëstricht, but a patent was dispatched on May 17th, 1750, in favor of the family, to enable him to join the honors of the Order to its armorial bearings.

Year 1749:

Marc-Antoine Front of Beaupoil de Saint-Aulaire, marquis de Lanmary, etc, ambassador in Sweden. The marquis of Saint-Aulaire, who had been named on January 1st, 1749, having died in Stockholm before the report/ratio of his evidence, his heirs obtained, on May 25th of the same year, a patent which enabled them to join the honors of the Order to the armorial bearings of the family.
Ferdinand de Silva Alvares de Tolède, etc, duke of Huescar, etc

Year 1750:

Stanislas-Prussia Jablonowski, prince of the Holy roman Empire, palatine of Rava, etc

Year 1756:

Louis-Eugene, prince de Wurtemberg.

Year 1757:

Pierre-Paul d' Ossuna, marquis d' Ossuna.

Year 1760:

César Gabriel de Choiseul-Praslin, called the count de Choiseul, named on January 1st, 1760, admitted on February 2nd.

Year 1761:

Gift Gabriel, infant of Spain.

Year 1861:

the count d' Estaing.

Year 1767:

Gift Antonio, infant of Spain.

Year 1768:

prince de Palestrino.
Gift François-Xavier, infant of Spain.

1814-1830

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