Claude de Beauharnais (French pronunciation: [klod də boaʁnɛ]; 22 September 1674 – 15 January 1738) was a French nobleman.
He was sieur de Beaumont et de Bellechauve, captain des vaisseaux du roi, and a knight of the Order of Saint Louis.
Another brother, Charles, served as Governor of New France from 1726 to 1746.
Claude de Beauharnois never resided in the colony but three times commanded the ships that restocked the troops in New France.
[1] In 1713, Claude de Beauharnais married Renée Hardouineau (daughter of Pierre Hardouineau, seigneur de La Laudanière and his wife Renée Le Pays de Beauville).