Monluc

Monluc, or Montluc, the name of a French family. It stemmed from the house of , which possessed the estate of Monluc in Agenais, and whose last heiress, Gersende, married a cadet from the House of Montesquiou. All its male members died at war in the lapse of a single decade and the name disappeared in the early 17th century.

Lineage[]

• Blaise de Montesquiou de Lasseran-Massencôme, seigneur de Montluc (d. 1577), Marshal, author of the Commentaires
  • Pierre Bertrand, called the Capitaine Peyrot, who perished in an expedition to Madeira in 1566,
  • Fabien de Monluc
    • Adrien de Monluc-Montesquiou, prince de Chabanais
      • Jeanne de Monluc (died 1657), countess of , princess of Chabanais, brought the estates of her house to the family of by her marriage with , marquess of and Alluyes.
• Jean de Monluc (?-1579), the marshal's brother, bishop and ambassador
  • Jean de Monluc de Balagny (d. 1603), seigneur de Balagny, the bishop's natural son, Marshal.

References[]

•  This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Monluc". Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 18 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 725.