Gaspard de Clermont-Tonnerre

Gaspard de Clermont-Tonnerre (16 August 1688 at Dijon – 16 March 1781 at the Hôtel Matignon, Paris), was a French noble, descendant of a family which traced its origins to the 12th century. His chief title was that of Marquis of Cruzy and Vauvillers, later 1st Duc de Clermont-Tonnerre, a new creation which elevated him to the Peerage of France. He was Constable, hereditary Grand-Master of Dauphiné and Marshal of France. He had a successful military career in the armies of Louis XV, notably at defeat of Cumberland's Anglo-Dutch-Hanoverian forces at Battle of Fontenoy in 1745 alongside Marshal de Saxe. Clermont-Tonnerre led the decisive cavalry charge which defeated the tenacious but ill-led allied forces. After the Battle of Lauffeld in 1747 he was named Marshal of France. In 1718 he had married Antoinette de Saint-Germain Novion (1685-1754). They had three children: Jules Charles Henri, (1720–1794), 2nd Duc de Clermont-Tonnerre. Madeleine-Louise Jeanne (1722–1769). François Joseph (1727–1809), Marquis de Clermont-Tonnerre. He remarried in 1756 with Marguerite Pauline de Prondre.