Elder branch On 22 April 1622, King
Louis XIII raised the Count of La Rochefoucauld into a
Duchy-peerage as the Duke of La Rochefoucauld ().
François V of La Rochefoucauld (
Frans of La Rochefoucauld; 1588–1650) (son of preceding), 1st Duke of La Rochefoucauld, in 1611 he married Gabrielle of Plessis-Liancourt (1595–1672), daughter of
Antoinette de Pons, sister of (1598–1674), Duke of Liancourt.
François VI of La Rochefoucauld (1613–1680) (son of preceding), 2nd Duke of La Rochefoucauld, Prince of
Marcillac, moralist writer: And, he also wrote a history of the
Fronde. In 1628, he married Andrée of
Vivonne (1605–1670).
François VII of La Rochefoucauld (1634–1714) (son of preceding), 3rd Duke of La Rochefoucauld, Prince of Marcillac,
Grand veneur de France, grand maître de la garde robe of the king, one of Louis XIV closest friend, married his cousin
Jeanne Charlotte of Plessis-Liancourt (1638–1710), great granddaughter of
Antoinette de Pons and heiress of the Duke of La Roche-Guyon. She brought the domains of
La Roche-Guyon and
Liancourt in the La Rochefoucauld family.
François VIII of La Rochefoucauld (1663–1728) (son of preceding), 4th Duke of La Rochefoucauld, grand maître de la garde robe of the King, Duke of La Roche-Guyon in 1679, Prince of Marcillac; married to Magdeleine Charlotte of Tellier (1664–1735), daughter of
François Michel Le Tellier de Louvois.
Alexandre I of La Rochefoucauld (
né Alexandre Louis de La Rochefoucauld; 1690–1762) (son of François VIII), 5th Duke of La Rochefoucauld, grand maître de la garde robe of the King, duke of La Roche-Guyon, Prince of Marcillac, married, in 1715, Elisabeth Marie Louise Nicole van Bermond of Caylar (1691–1752) of Toiras in
Amboise.
Roye branch This branch was founded by Charles de La Rochefoucauld (1560–1605) Lord of Roye, Count of Roucy, younger son of
François III of La Rochefoucauld (1521–1572), Count of La Rochefoucauld, and Charlotte of Roye (1537–1572) ( – ), Countess of Roucy, who sister married Condé. This branch through different unions are descendants of a sister of King Francis 1st, William the 1st of Orange-Nassau, the chancelor Séguier, the Maréchal of Aloigny and Madame de Sablé and parents of Turenne (descendants of two of his sisters).
Dukes of Enville (1732), then Duke of La Rochefoucauld (1762) ::
Jean-Baptiste Louis Frédéric of La Rochefoucauld of Roye (1707–1746), Marquis of Roucy,
created Duke of Enville upon his 1732 marriage to his cousin, Marie Louise Nicole Elisabeth of La Rochefoucauld (1716–1797), eldest daughter of
Alexandre, the last Duke of La Rochfoucauld. As Alexandre had no surviving male heir, by letters patent of
Louis XV, the title Duke of La Rochefoucauld was transmitted to the male issue of Marie Louise Nicole Elisabeth on the condition that she married a member of the La Rochefoucauld family.
Louis-Alexandre of La Rochefoucauld (son of preceding) (1743–1792), 6th Duke of La Rochefoucauld upon the death of his maternal grandfather in 1762 and 2nd Duke of Enville upon the death of his father in 1746. He was known as Duke of La Rochefoucauld-Enville. Member of the
Académie des sciences, member of the
Assembly of notables in 1787, deputy of the nobility at the
French States-General of 1789. He was assassinated during the
September massacres in
Gisors; married (1) Pauline de Gand de
Mérode in 1762, (2) Alexandrine Charlotte de
Rohan-Chabot in 1780. As he died without heir, the title passed to his first cousin.
Dukes of Estissac (1737), Dukes of Liancourt (1765), then Dukes of La Rochefoucauld (1792 - confirmed at the restauration) and Duke of Anville (courtesy nowadays) ::
Louis François Armand of La Rochefoucauld (1695–1783) ( – ) of the younger branch of Roye, count of Roye, count of Roucy and count of Blanzac,
created Duke of Estissac upon his 1737 marriage to his cousin, Marie-Elisabeth of La Rochefoucauld (1718–1789) ( – ), youngest daughter of
Alexandre, the last Duke of La Rochfoucauld.
François XII of La Rochefoucauld (
Frans Alexander Frederik; 1747–1827) (son of preceding), 7th Duke of La Rochefoucauld,
created 1st
Duke of Liancourt in 1765, 2nd duke of Estissac, and inherited the Duke of La Rochefoucauld title from his cousin in 1792; married Félicité-Sophie of Lannion in 1764.
François XIII of La Rochefoucauld (
né François Armand Fréderic of La Rochefoucauld; 1765–1848) (son of preceding), 8th Duke of La Rochefoucauld, Duke of Estissac, then Duke of Liancourt (in 1828, he was authorized to substitute the title of Duke of Liancourt for that of Duke of Estissac and gave his brother
Alexandre, the title of Duke of Estissac, who thus founded the Estissac branch); Alexandre-François married
Adélaïde Pyvart de Chastullé, cousin of Joséphine de Beauharnais, she was first lady of the empress and we can see in the coronation painting of Napoléon, holding the gown of Joséphine. Their daughter Adèle Marie Hortense Françoise of Rochefoucauld (1793–1877) ( – ), married (1776–1839) – a brother-in-law of
Pauline Marie Bonaparte (1780–1825). Pauline, a sister of
Napoleon Bonaparte, became
Princess Borghese through her marriage to
Camillo Filippo Ludovico Borghese (1775–1832),
Prince of Sulmona and
Duke of Guastalla. Alexandre-François served as the French Ambassador to
Vienna (in Austria) (1805) and later to
The Hague (fr) (in the
Kingdom of Holland) (1808–1810), where he negotiated the
union of the Kingdom of Holland with France. During the "
Hundred Days", Napoleon appointed him as a
peer of France, a prestigious title that granted him a seat in the
Chamber of Peers, a legislative body composed of individuals chosen by the ruler (Napoleon) for their loyalty, influence, or status. He subsequently devoted himself to philanthropic work. In 1822, he became a deputy to the
Chamber of Deputies and aligned himself with the
constitutional royalists. He was again raised to the peerage in 1831. Alexandre-François's descendants became
Dukes of
Estissac and
Princes of La Rochefoucauld-Montbel. His other brother, the youngest of three siblings,
Frédéric Gaëtan (1779–1863), became Marquis of La Rochefoucauld-Liancourt, and, in 1793, married to Marie-Françoise de Tott.
François XIV of La Rochefoucauld (
né François Marie Auguste Armand of La Rochefoucauld; 1794–1874) (son of preceding), 9th Duke of La Rochefoucauld, in 1817, married to Zénaide Chapt of Rastignac (1798–1875) ( – and ).
François XV of La Rochefoucauld (
né François Augustin Ernest Marie; 1818–1879) (son of preceding), 10th Duke of La Rochefoucauld, in 1852, married Radegonde-Euphrasie Bouvery (1832–1901) ( – ).
François XVI of La Rochefoucauld (
né François Alfred Gaston of La Rochefoucauld; 1853–1925) (son of preceding), 11th Duke of La Rochefoucauld, in 1892, married Mattie-Elizabeth Mitchell (1866–1933) ( – ) (daughter of
U.S. Senator John H. Mitchell).
Alfred Gabriel Marie François of La Rochefoucauld (
né Alfred Gabriel Marie François; 1854–1926) ( – ) (brother of preceding), 12th Duke of La Rochefoucauld, the ducal title was transferred to him, in 1884, married Pauline Louise Marie Anne Albenais Fortunee Piscalory of Vaufreland (1864–1934). '''''' (1887–1970) (son of preceding), 13th Duke of La Rochefoucauld, 8th Duke of Liancourt,
Prince of Marcillac, Duke of Anville (courtesy) in 1917, married
Edmée Frish of Fels (1896–1991). ''''
(né'' François Marie Edmond Hubert of La Rochefoucauld; 1920–2011) (son of preceding), 14th Duke of La Rochefoucauld, 9th Duke of Liancourt, Prince of Marcillac, Duke of Anville (courtesy), (i) in 1946, married Marie-Louise Lucienne Meriaux (Jeannine Renée Petit; 1907–1995) (divorced in 1948), (ii) in 1950, married Sonia Marie Matossian (born 1931) ( – ) (divorced in 1961), and (iii) in 1967, married Jeanne-Marie Ruth Dorothée Églantine of Villiers of Terrage (1921–2004). Jeanne-Marie was a great-great granddaughter of
Édouard de Villiers du Terrage (1780–1855). François XVIII was a composer and violinist. He had been a violin student of Carmen Forté (1886–1964) at the
Paris Conservatory.
Solange Fasquelle (
née Solange Marie Andrée of La Rochefoucauld; 1933–2016), a writer of novels, was the younger sister of François XVIII and wife (married 1954) of publisher
Jean-Claude Fasquelle (1930–2021) (divorced 2000).
François XIX of La Rochefoucauld (François-Alexandre Marie Joseph of La Rochefoucauld; born 1958) (son of preceding and his 2nd wife, Sonia Marie Matossian), 15th Duke of La Rochefoucauld, 10th Duke of Liancourt, Duke of Anville (courtesy), Prince of Marcillac, in 1984, married Michèle Suzanne Etter (born 1948), who was previously married to
Philippe Paul Michel Augier (born 1949).
François XX of La Rochefoucauld (François-Xavier of La Rochefoucauld; born 1986) (son of preceding), 11th Duke of Liancourt, Prince of Marcillac, duc d'Anville (courtesy), heir to the ducal title of La Rochefoucauld and house chief seat. On 29 June 2024, he married Inga Grigorenko (maiden), born in
Tallinn, Estonia. ==Dukes of Estissac (since 1839) ==