Michel du Motier, Marquis de La Fayette

Michel Louis Christophe Roch Gilbert Motier, Marquis de La Fayette[1] (13 August 1731 – 9 July 1759) was a colonel in the French Grenadiers.

[2] The marquis title and Lord of Chavaniac passed to him from his elder brother, Jacques-Roch du Motier (1711–1734), upon his death on January 18, 1734 while fighting the Austrians at Milan in the War of Polish Succession.

[3] The Marquis de La Fayette was a colonel in the French Grenadiers and was a Knight of the Order of Saint Louis.

[6] Her maternal grandfather was the Comte de La Rivière, until his death in 1770 commander of the Mousquetaires du Roi, or Black Musketeers, King Louis XV's personal horse guard.

[5] Perhaps devastated by the loss of her husband, she went to live in Paris with her father and grandfather,[7] leaving their son to be raised in Chavaniac-Lafayette by his paternal grandmother, Mme de Chavaniac, who had brought the château into the family with her dowry.