Henri de Saint-Nectaire


Henri, marquis de Saint-Nectaire was a French nobleman, soldier and diplomat.
The Marquis de Saint-Nectaire was commissioned in the Senneterre Dragoons, advancing to the rank of Brigadier in 1704 and Maréchal de camp later the same year. He was promoted Lieutenant-General of the French Army in 1718, before being posted to London by King Louis XV, where he served as Ambassador to Great Britain until 1720; he was appointed Chevalier du Saint-Esprit in 1724.

Family

His father, Jean-Charles de Saint-Nectaire, styled comte de Brinon, married in 1654 Marguérite, sole heiress of Timoléon :fr:Canton de Boves|de Boves, baron de Contenant; of their five children, two survived childhood: Henri, who inherited his father's ancestral titles and his sister Madeleine, who married :fr:Famille Colbert|Pierre-Gilbert Colbert, marquis de Villacerf.
Upon his death in 1746, he was succeeded by his cousin, Jean-Charles, as marquis de Saint-Nectaire.