Charles III de CrÃ©quy

Charles III. de Poix- Créquy, sieur de Blanche Fort, prince de Poix, duc de Créquy, also Créqui, (* 1623, † February 13, 1687 in Paris) was a French general and diplomat.

Charles de Créquy was the eldest son of Marshal Charles de Blanche Fort de Créquy, duc de Lesdiguières ( 1578-1638 ). Charles served in the campaigns of 1642 and 1645 during the Thirty Years' War, and in 1649 in Catalonia. After the siege of Orbitello In 1646 he was appointed by the King to Lieutenant General. Through his faithful service during the minority of the King, he gained the favor of the queen, Anne of Austria and Cardinal Mazarin, and was raised in 1652 to the Duke of Créquy and peer of France.

The last half of his life were spent on the farm, where he was First Lord Chamberlain, an office which had bought him his grandfather. In 1659 he was sent before the wedding of the Dauphin with the Infanta Maria Theresa gifts for Spain and 1660 in a similar mission to Bavaria. He was from 1662 to 1665 and ambassador to Rome in 1677 in England.

Charles de Créquy died on February 13, 1687 in Paris; his peerage became extinct.

His only daughter Marguerite and Madeleine married Charles - Belgique - Hollande de La TREMOILLE, duc de Thouars (1655-1709), of the Principality of Poix 1718 to the widow of Jean- François, marquis de Noailles sold.