François de Cossé, 13th Duke of Brissac

François de Cossé, 13th Duke of Brissac (19 February 1929 – 6 April 2021), was a French aristocrat and landowner.[1] He held the French noble title of Duke of Brissac from 1993 until his death in 2021.

François de Cossé
Arms of the Cossé family
President of the Jockey-Club de Paris
In office
1997–2014
13th Duke of Brissac
In office
4 April 1993 – 6 April 2021
Preceded byPierre de Cossé
Succeeded byCharles-André de Cossé
Grand Master of the Order of Saint Lazarus
In office
1986–2004
Personal details
Born
Eugène Marie Timoléon François de Cossé

19 February 1929
Le Creusot, France
Died6 April 2021(2021-04-06) (aged 92)
Charcé-Saint-Ellier-sur-Aubance, France

Biography

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Château de Brissac

He was the son of Pierre de Cossé, 12th Duke of Brissac, and his wife, Marie Zélie Antoinette Eugénie Schneider. She was the daughter of industrialist Eugène Schneider II.

In 1958, he married Jacqueline Alice Marie de Contades, with whom he had four children

  1. Agnès Alexandra Marie Bienvenue de Cossé
  2. Charles André Raymond Timoléon Aymard Hubert Marie de Cossé, 14th Duke of Brissac
  3. Angélique Patricia Marie, Marie Antoinette Elvire de Cossé
  4. Pierre Emmanuel Timoléon Marie Raymond de Cossé

He served as President of the Jockey-Club de Paris from 1997 to 2014, and he was Grand Master of the Order of Saint Lazarus from 1986 to 2004. He was the proprietor of the Château de Brissac in Brissac-Quincé.[2]

The 13th Duke of Brissac died at his Château de la Roche in Charcé-Saint-Ellier-sur-Aubance on 6 April 2021, at the age of 92.[3]

Bibliography

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  • Les Brissac (1952)
  • Les Brissac et l'histoire (1973)
  • L'histoire de la maison Cossé-Brissac (1987)

References

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  1. ^ "François de Cossé-Brissac, XIIIe duc de Brissac". Geni.
  2. ^ "Brissac, l'Histoire en héritage". Le Figaro (in French). 11 July 2008.
  3. ^ "Nécrologie. Eugène-François de Cossé, XIIIe duc de Brissac". Ouest-France (in French). 7 April 2021.

Further reading

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Chaffanjon, Arnaud (22 March 1985). "Le duc de Brissac: 60 ans au Jockey-Club et 8 ans de présidence". Point de Vue, Images du Monde. 36 (1912): 27–28.

French nobility
Preceded by Duke of Brissac
1993–2021
Succeeded by
Charles-André de Cossé