Frederic-Maurice's son,
Godefroy Maurice de La Tour d'Auvergne (1641–1721), was the first member of his family to become a truly sovereign duke of Bouillon. This happened in 1678 when the
Duchy of Bouillon was finally reconquered from the Spaniards by the
Marshal de Créquy. Apart from his ducal titles, Godefroy-Maurice also held the title of
Count of Évreux. He became the
Grand Chamberlain of France in 1658 and governor of Auvergne in 1662. All these titles would remain in the La Tour d'Auvergne family for more than a century. The family were created
Foreign Princes in France in 1651, this entitled them to the style of
[Most Serene] Highness at the French court in which they lived. , comte d'Évreux, builder of
Élysée Palace. Portrait by
Hyacinthe Rigaud (ca. 1720), now in the
Metropolitan Museum Godefroy-Maurice's younger brother, Count Frederic Maurice de La Tour d'Auvergne (1642–1707), was a prominent general in the service of the Dutch. He married Henrietta von
Hohenzollern (1648–1698), heiress to the marquessate of
Bergen-op-Zoom, a title which passed to their children. After their line became extinct in 1732, Bergen devolved upon
Count Palatine Johann Christian von Sulzbach (1700–1733), who had married an heiress,
Marie Henriette Leopoldine de La Tour d'Auvergne, in 1722. Godefroy-Maurice's wife,
Marie Anne Mancini (1649–1714), best remembered for her literary pursuits and for her patronage of
La Fontaine, was a niece of
Cardinal Mazarin. Their eldest son Louis married the heiress to the dukedom of
Ventadour but predeceased his parents. The Duchy of Bouillon and other titles passed to their second son, Emmanuel Théodose (1668–1730), whose fourth wife was
Louise Henriette Françoise de Lorraine. Another son, Frédéric-Jules, Prince d'Auvergne (1672–1733), married an Irish adventuress.
Charles Godefroy de La Tour d'Auvergne (1706–1771) was Emmanuel-Théodose's son and the 5th Duke of Bouillon. His wife was his brother's widow,
Maria Karolina Sobieska, the granddaughter of King
John Sobieski of Poland. Their only daughter,
Marie Louise Henriette Jeanne de La Tour, was a famous adventuress and was guillotined in 1793. Although officially married to
Jules de Rohan, Duke of Montbazon, she had an illegitimate son who died in infancy by her cousin,
Charles Edward Stuart,
Jacobite claimant to the thrones of
England and
Scotland. Her brother,
Godefroy Charles Henri de La Tour d'Auvergne (1728–1792), was the 6th Duke of Bouillon. He married
Louise de Lorraine, known prior to marriage as
Mademoiselle de Marsan. He served with distinction in the
Seven Years' War and was elected to the Royal Academy of Sculpture and Painting in 1777. In just three months, he squandered almost a million livres on his mistress, an opera singer, thus bringing his family to the verge of ruin. Although the 6th duke embraced the
French Revolution enthusiastically, the
Duchy of Bouillon was annexed by the Republic within three years after his death. His only son, Jacques Léopold Charles Godefroy, incapacitated by a road accident, died in 1802, leaving no issue of his marriage to a Princess of
Hesse-Rheinfels. As a consequence, the main line of the La Tour d'Auvergne family became extinct. == Bouillon Succession ==