Gramont family

For the town in France, see Gramont, Tarn-et-Garonne.

Gramont is the name of an old French noble family, whose name is connected to the city Gramont, Agramont in Spanish, in the south French province of Labourd.

Key Representatives

• Antoine III de Gramont (1604-1678), Military officer and diplomat, with the title Maréchal de France.
• Antoine V de Gramont (1671-1725), Duke of Gramont (also named Duke of Guiche), 1724 Maréchal de France, nephew of the previous.
• Antoine-Geneviève-Héraclius-Agénor de Gramont (1789-1854), duc de Gramont (Duke of Gramont), court figure with close relations to the Bourbons.
• Agenor, duc de Gramont, Duke of Gramont and Prince of Bidache, (1819-1880), French diplomat and statesman.
• Gabriel Antoine Armand, Comte de Gramont (1908-1943), a hero of the French Resistance.
• Sanche de Gramont (1932- ), son of the previous, gave up his titles and became a naturalized citizen of the United States under the name Ted Morgan.

Biography

• W. H. Lewis: Assault on Olympus; the rise of the House of Gramont between 1604 and 1678, New York, Harcourt, Brace (1958)