Congratulations to Alix de Ligne for her engagement to Guillaume de Dampierre!!!!
Messire Guillaume Aymar Emmanuel comte de DAMPIERRE (1985)
son of:
Messire Audouin Marie Michel Pierre Armand comte de DAMPIERRE (1945)
and of
Madame Roselyne Claude Marie Thérèse ALVAR de BIAUDOS de CASTÉJA (1951).
The main residence of the De Dampierre family is the Château de Plassac. See link: www
.chateaudeplassac.com The Château de Plassac is in the Cognac region. Guillaume's father, Audouin comte de Dampierre produces his own brands in the Champagne region.
The paternal grandparents of Guillaume are:
Messire Aymar Eric Marie comte de DAMPIERRE (1910)
and
Madame Elyane Marie Jacqueline des comtes GONTAUT-BIRON (1913)
The maternal grandparents of Guillaume were:
Messire Jean-Emmanuel ALVAR de BIAUDOS de CASTÉJA (1916-2012)
and
Madame Marie des marquises de MOUSTIER (1887-1980)
The Dampierre arms are also on the labels of their products, like
this. The first blason is in the Dampierre Archives, before the Dampierres were raised to Marquises and Comtes:
Généalogie de l'ancienne et noble famille de Messieurs de Dampierre. Inventaire des lettres, pièces et escriptures dont s'ayde et fait production Charles de Dampierre. Rouen, mars 1667. (no copyright):
Note on the groom's paternal grandmother:
The groom's grandmother Elyane de Gountaut-Biron herself is a granddaughter of Georges de Bourbon-Busset, Comte de Lignières. This man was the father of Marie-Madeleine de Bourbon-Busset (
pic), was the grandfather of Prince Carlos Hugo de Bourbon de Parme, Duke of Parma (
pic) and is the great-grandfather of the present Duke of Parma, Prince Carlos de Bourbon de Parme (
pic). His castle, Château de Lignières (
pic) is still owned by his grandson Prince Sixte-Henri de Bourbon de Parme (
pic).
Note on the groom's maternal grandfather:
The groom's grandfather Jean-Emmanuel Alvar de Biaudos de Castéja comes from a cadet branch of the De Biaudos de Castéja dynasty which was created as result of
an adoption: Messire Rémy Léon de Biaudos, Marquis de Castéja (1805-1899) (
pic) married Hon. Elizabeth Hunloke (1810-1878), daughter of Sir Thomas Hunloke, Baronet and Lady Anne Scarisbrick. Their only child, a son, died as a baby.
The Marquis and Marquise de Castéja decided to adopt a son of the Marquise's halfsister, Hon. Charlotte Hunloke, nicknamed
Mercédès Alvarez, who was natural daughter of Lady Anne Scarisbrick from an affair with William Cavendish, the later 6th Duke of Devonshire. That boy, the Marchioness' natural nephew, was first named Emmanuel ALVAR.
After adoption the boy (a Cavendish-Scarisbrick in fact) became registered as Marie-Emmanuel ALVAR DE BIAUDOS DE CASTÉJA. The adopted nephew however of course was not eligible to inherit his adoptive father's title
Marquis de Castéja. The current Alvar de Biaudos de Castéjas are his descendants.
Picture of the grave of Elizabeth de Biaudos de Castéja, Marquise de Castéja née Hon. Elizabeth Hunloke
