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  1. The fief La Fayette was raised to a marquisate by Letters patent in about 1690. [1]Brigadier des armées René-Armand Count and Marquis de La Fayette (1659–1694), son of Madame de La Fayette (1634–1693), and François Motier, comte de La Fayette (1616–1683), died on 12 September 1694 of an illness in Landau during the Nine Years' War.

  2. Oct 19, 2024 · Early Life Lafayette was born on September 6, 1757, to Michel du Motier and Marie Louise Jolie de La Rivière on the family’s estate in Auvergne in central France. Lafayette’s ancestors had fought for France since the Crusades, and he was especially proud of his father, who was killed in the Seven Years’ War when the boy was just two years old. Read more about: Marquis de Lafayette (1757 ...

  3. Kempeneer, Pieter. Brussels (Belgium), 1503, 1580. Pieter Kempeneer, known in Spain as Pedro de Campaña, had a significant presence in Sevillian painting during his stay in that city between 1537 and his return to Brussels in 1562. That was a period of extraordinary economic, artist and social development for Seville, and Campaña had much in ...

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    Correspondence, letterbooks, writings, speeches, reports, minutes, notes, military records, financial and legal documents, family papers, broadsides, and other papers relating chiefly to the marqui...
    Includes Lafayette's annotated draft of the Declaration of the Rights of Man and a holograph manuscript of the secret code used by Lafayette and George Washington during the American Revolution. Al...
    Lafayette's correspondents include John Adams, John Quincy Adams, Simón Bolívar, James Fenimore Cooper, Charles James Fox, Andrew Jackson, John Jay, Thomas Jefferson, La Colombe, Louis XVIII, Jam...
    Lafayette family papers include those of Lafayette's wife Marie Adrienne de Noailles, marquise de Lafayette; of his children, Anastasie du Motier de La Fayette, comtesse de La Tour-Maubourg; Virgin...
    Lafayette, Marie Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert Du Motier, marquis de, 1757-1834
    Jarnac, Charles Rosalie de Rohan-Chabot, comte de
    Jarnac, Louis Charles Guillaume de Rohan-Chabot, comte de, 1780-1875
    Jarnac, Philippe-Ferdinand-Auguste de Rohan-Chabot, comte de, 1815-1875
    - Adams, John,--1735-1826
    - Adams, John Quincy,--1767-1848
    - Bolívar, Simón,--1783-1830
    - Cooper, James Fenimore,--1789-1851
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    - Researchers wishing to cite this collection should include the following information: Reel number, Marquis de Lafayette Papers [microfilm], Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
    - Selections from the Marquis de Lafayette Papers available through the Cleveland State University Library Special Collections's Marquis de Lafayette webpage at https://www.clevelandmemory.org/lafa...
    - Microfilm edition only available, no. 21,228.

    Library of Congress Manuscript Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA dcu http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/mss.home

    Open to research; other restrictions apply. Contact the Manuscript Reading Room for further information.

  4. Pieter de Kempeneer (born 1503, Brussels, Burgundy [now in Belgium]—died 1580) was a Flemish religious painter and designer of tapestries, chiefly active in Sevilla, Spain, where he was called Pedro Campaña. By 1537 he had settled in Sevilla and apparently remained there until shortly before 1563, when he was appointed director of the ...

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  5. The life of Pieter de Kempeneer, better known as Pedro de Campana, is documented almost exclusively in Spanish sources, for the artist, who was born in Brussels around 1503, lived and worked in Seville from 1537 to 1561. His local renown was especially propagated in the late sixteenth century by Francisco Pacheco, who discussed in detail only ...

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  7. Sep 6, 2016 · Remarkably, his path would intersect with the Marquis de Lafayette twenty-eight years later during the American Revolutionary War. Known today simply as Lafayette, the Marquis was born on September 6, 1757 to Michel Louis Christophe Roch Gilbert Paulette du Motier, Marquis de La Fayette, Colonel of the Grenadiers, and his wife, Marie Louise Jolie de La Rivière, at Château de Chavaniac, in ...