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{{Short description|French nobleman (1878–1908)}}
{{infobox noble
| name         = Emmanuel d'Albert
|image=Duc du Chaulnes 1908 page 239 (cropped).jpg
| title        = 11th [[Duke of Chaulnes]]
| other_titles = [[Duke of Picquigny]], [[Marquis de Dangeau|Marquis of Dangeau]]
| full name = Emmanuel Théodore Bernard Marie d'Albert
| birth_date   = {{birth date|1878|04|10|df=yes}}
| birth_place  = [[Paris]], France
| death_date   = {{death date and age|1908|04|24|1878|04|10|df=yes}}
| death_place  = Paris, France
| mother = Princess Sophie Galitzine
|father = [[Paul d'Albert, 10th Duke of Chaulnes]]
| spouse       = {{marriage|[[Theodora d'Albert, Duchess of Chaulnes|Theodora Mary Shonts]]|16 February 1908}}
| issue        = Emmanuel d'Albert
}}
'''Emmanuel d'Albert, 11th [[Duke of Chaulnes]]''' (''Emmanuel Théodore Bernard Marie''; 10 April 1878 – 24 April 1908) was a French nobleman.
==Early life==
[[File:Portrait de Madame Sophie Galitzine, Duchess of Chaulnes.jpg|thumb|left|Portrait of his mother, Princess Sophie Galitzine, by [[Charles Joshua Chaplin]], 1878]]
Born in Paris on 10 April 1878. He was the eldest son of Princess Sophie [[House of Golitsyn|Galitzine]] (1858–1883), and [[Paul d'Albert, 10th Duke of Chaulnes]] and [[Picquigny]] (1852–1881), who both died young.<ref name="europeanheraldry">{{cite web |title=Maison d'Albert de Luynes |url=https://www.europeanheraldry.org/france/families/maison-dalbert-de-luynes/ |website=www.europeanheraldry.org |publisher=European Heraldry |access-date=10 November 2020 |archive-date=27 February 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210227220845/https://europeanheraldry.org/france/families/maison-dalbert-de-luynes/ |url-status=dead }}</ref> His sister, Marie Thérèse d'Albert de Luynes,<ref name="Morenas1934">{{cite book |last1=Morenas |first1=Henri Jougla de |title=Grand armorial de France: catalogue général des armoiries des familles nobles de France. ... |date=1934 |publisher=Les éditions héraldiques |pages=138–139 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=BXdgwQEACAAJ |access-date=11 November 2020 |language=fr}}</ref> was married in 1894 to [[Louis de Crussol d'Uzès]], 14th [[Duke of Uzès]] (a son of the 12th Duke of Uzès and [[Anne de Rochechouart de Mortemart]]).<ref name="1907Profile"/><ref name="Duchéuzes">{{cite web |title=The House of Crussol - Chateau du Duché d'Uzès entre mer et Cévennes. Cité médiévale, le Duché (XIème - XVIIIème siècle) propose une étonnante promenade dans l'Histoire Uzès,Povence,Chateau, Duc de Crussol, Duché, Ducale, Gard, Pont du Gard, vin, cave à vin |url=http://www.uzes.com/en/maison/genealogie.php |website=www.uzes.com |publisher=Le Duché |access-date=27 June 2020}}</ref>{{refn|group=lower-alpha|Simone Louise Laure de Crussol (1870–1946), the elder sister of his brother-in-law [[Louis de Crussol d'Uzès]], 14th [[Duke of Uzès]], was married to his cousin, Honoré d'Albert, 10th Duke of Luynes (1868–1924) (both were grandsons of [[Honoré-Louis d'Albert de Luynes]], [[Duke of Chevreuse]] (1823–1854)) and were parents of [[Philippe d'Albert de Luynes]], 11th Duke of Luynes.<ref name="Duchéuzes"/>}} After the early death of both of his parents, Emmanuel and his sister were brought up in the home of their aunt, Yolande the [[dowager]] Duchess of Luynes.<ref name="1907Engagement"/>
His father became the Duke of Chaulnes, because his father (Emmanuel's grandfather), [[Honoré-Louis d'Albert de Luynes]], [[Duke of Chevreuse]], predeceased his grandfather (Emmanuel's great-grandfather), [[Honoré Théodoric d'Albert de Luynes]], 8th [[Duke of Luynes]], of Chevreuse and of Chaulnes.<ref name="Histoire1868">{{cite book |last1=père) |first1=Anselme (de Sainte Marie |title=Histoire généalogique et chronologique de la Maison royale de France: des pairs, grands officiers de la couronne et de la maison du roy, et des anciens barons du royaume ... |date=1868 |publisher=Editions du Palais Royal |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Yqk-AQAAMAAJ |access-date=11 November 2020 |language=fr}}</ref><ref name="Sereville1975">{{cite book |last1=Sereville |first1=E. de |last2=Simon |first2=F. de Saint |title=Dictionnaire de la noblesse française |date=1975 |publisher=la Société française au XX- siècle |page=103 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-UBgzQEACAAJ |access-date=11 November 2020 |language=fr}}</ref> His aunt, Marie Julie d'Albert de Luynes, was the wife of Elzéar [[House of Sabran|de Sabran-Pontevès]], 3rd Duke of Sabran, and his uncle was [[Charles Honoré Emmanuel d'Albert de Luynes]], 9th Duke of Luynes (husband of Yolande [[Duc de La Rochefoucauld|de La Rochefoucauld]]).<ref name="gallian2007"/>{{refn|group=lower-alpha|His aunt, Yolande [[Duc de La Rochefoucauld|de La Rochefoucauld]] (1849–1905), was a daughter of [[:fr:Sosthène II de La Rochefoucauld|Sosthène II de La Rochefoucauld]], 4th [[Duke of Doudeauville]] and Princess Yolande, a daughter of Prince [[Jules de Polignac]], the 7th [[Prime Minister of France]].<ref name="Annuaire1908">{{cite book |title=Annuaire de la noblesse de France |date=1908 |publisher=Au Bureau de la publication |page=95 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=vGM_AQAAMAAJ |access-date=9 November 2020 |language=fr}}</ref>}} His maternal grandparents were Augustin Petrovitch, Prince Galitzine (son of Prince [[Pyotr Alexeyevich Golitsyn]])<ref name="Golitsyn1864">{{cite book |last1=Golitsyn |first1=Prince Augustin Petrovitch |title=Le Saint-Siège et la Russie. |date=1864 |publisher=A.-L. Hérold |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=76q8zQEACAAJ |access-date=12 November 2020 |language=fr}}</ref><ref name="Golitsyn1870">{{cite book |last1=Golitsyn |first1=Prince Augustin Petrovitch |title=Mme Potemkin, née princesse Galitzin. |date=1870 |publisher=S. Raçon |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=nHfSZwEACAAJ |access-date=12 November 2020 |language=fr}}</ref> and Stéphanie Marie Bernadette Louise de la Roche Aymon (a daughter of Antoine de La Roche-Aymon, Marquis [[Charles Antoine de La Roche-Aymon|de La Roche-Aymon]] and Marie Louise Vallet [[Pierre-Charles Villeneuve|de Villeneuve]]),<ref name="gallian2007"/> who owned the [[Château de Châtain]] in [[Arfeuille-Châtain]].<ref name="Lemaître1982">{{cite book |last1=Lemaître |first1=Maurice |title=Journal d'un militant |date=1982 |publisher=Maurice Lemaître |isbn=978-2-904019-00-5 |page=13 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=p00uAAAAIAAJ |access-date=12 November 2020 |language=fr}}</ref>
==Career==
[[File:Dampierre en Yvelines Chateau 02.jpg|thumb|right|[[Château de Dampierre]]]]
Upon his father's early death in 1881, three year old Emmanuel became the [[Duke of Chaulnes]] and [[Picquigny]].{{refn|group=lower-alpha|The [[baron]]y of [[Picquigny]] came into the Albert family upon the 1620 marriage of [[Honoré d'Albert (1581–1649)|Honoré d'Albert]] and Charlotte Eugénie d'Ailly, who was heir to a family holding the titles of Count of Chaulnes (created in December 1563), [[Vidame]] d'[[Amiens]] and Baron de Picquigny.<ref name="Bausset1817">{{cite book |last1=Bausset |first1=Louis François |title=Histoire de Fénélon, archevêque de Cambrai: 4 |date=1817 |publisher=Lebel |page=195 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=IOVNAAAAcAAJ |access-date=11 November 2020 |language=fr}}</ref>}} He also used the courtesy title of Marquis of Dangeau.{{refn|group=lower-alpha|The [[Marquis de Dangeau|marquisate of Dangeau]] came into the Albert family in 1720 through the 1694 marriage of Marie Anne Jeanne de Courcillon (the eldest daughter of [[Philippe de Courcillon de Dangeau]]) and Honoré Charles d'Albert de Luynes, elder brother of [[Louis Auguste d'Albert d'Ailly]], 4th Duke of Chaulnes.}}
The Duke was "a familiar figure in sporting circles" and was "well known for his interest in athletics and all forms or outdoor diversion."<ref name="1907Engagement"/> He was a member of the ''Cercle de la Rue Royale'' (a venue for idling, smoking cigars, discussing politics and the stock market), Cercle Hoche, and of the Société Sportive de l'Ile de Puteaux.<ref name="1907Engagement"/>
==Personal life==
[[File:Theodora Shonts, later Duchesse de Chaulnes, portrait bust LCCN2014680632.jpg|thumb|right|His wife, [[Theodora d'Albert, Duchess of Chaulnes]] (''née'' Shonts) in 1900, before she married the Duke.]]
According to a 1907 profile in ''[[The New York Times]]'', the Duke of Chaulnes was "good looking, amiable, well educated, and possessed of charming manners." He had a house in the [[8th arrondissement of Paris]] (in Avenue Van-Dyck in the [[Parc Monceau]] quarter) and a hereditary château in the French [[Departments of France|department]] of [[Sarthe]],<ref name="1907Engagement">{{cite news |last1=Times |first1=Special to The New York |title=MISS SHONTS MAY WED FRENCH DUKE; Her Father Might Consent to Arrange the Customary Settlement. A QUESTION Of HAPPINESS Miss Shonts and Her Mother Show Favor to Titled Suitor -- Duchess May Visit Them. |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1907/03/25/archives/miss-shonts-may-wed-french-duke-her-father-might-consent-to-arrange.html |access-date=10 November 2020 |work=[[The New York Times]] |date=25 March 1907}}</ref> but his income was small and it was reportedly well known in Paris that "for years he has been seeking a rich, American wife."<ref name="1907Profile">{{cite news |title=Plenty of Romance in the Story of the Next American Duchess; Long Ago Miss Shonts Predicted What is to Happen, While the Duc de Chaulnes Is Rapidly Becoming an American. |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1907/11/24/archives/plenty-of-romance-in-the-story-of-the-next-american-duchess-long.html |access-date=12 November 2020 |work=[[The New York Times]] |date=24 November 1907}}</ref>
In 1902, his engagement was announced to American heiress Ena Gebhard, a daughter of prominent merchant William H. Gebhard. She had been living in Paris for a number of years.<ref name="1902Engagement">{{cite news |title=TO MARRY A FRENCH DUKE; Daughter of William Gebhard Engaged to the Due de Chaulnes et de Picquigny. |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1902/03/21/archives/to-marry-a-french-duke-j-daughter-of-william-gebhard-engaged-to-the.html |access-date=10 November 2020 |work=[[The New York Times]] |date=21 March 1902}}</ref> Ena was a cousin of [[Frederick Gebhard]] and [[Isabelle Gebhard Neilson]] (mother of Cathleen Gebhard Neilson, wife of [[Reginald Claypoole Vanderbilt]]).<ref name="1902Wedding">{{cite news |last1=Times |first1=Special to The New York |title=REGINALD VANDERBILT TO WED MISS NEILSON; Formal Announcement of Their Engagement Made. The Young Couple the Recipients of Congratulations at Newport -- Sketches of Their Ancestry -- Their Romantic Courtship. |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1902/08/05/archives/reginald-vanderbilt-to-wed-miss-neilson-formal-announcement-of.html |access-date=12 November 2020 |work=[[The New York Times]] |date=5 August 1902}}</ref><ref name="WHGObit1905">{{cite news |title=William H. Gebhard. |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1905/05/26/archives/william-h-gebhard.html |access-date=12 November 2020 |work=[[The New York Times]] |date=26 May 1905}}</ref> The engagement was broken off before they married however.<ref name="TEC2013">{{cite news |title=American Heiresses Be Warned! PUCK Waxes Lyrical Over The Downsides Of An International Match Of Cash For Coronets! |url=http://theesotericcuriosa.blogspot.com/2013/02/american-heiresses-be-warned-puck-waxes.html |access-date=12 November 2020 |work=The Esoteric Curiosa |date=23 February 2013 |language=en}}</ref>
In 1906, another engagement to an American heiress was announced, this time to [[Theodora d'Albert, Duchess of Chaulnes|Theodora Mary Shonts]] (1882–1966) of [[New York City]]. She was the youngest daughter of [[Theodore P. Shonts|Theodore Perry Shonts]],<ref name="1921Estate">{{cite news |title=SHONTS WILL PROBATED.; Testament Similar to That Admitted Here Accepted in Chicago. (Published 1921) |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1921/09/03/archives/shonts-will-probated-testament-similar-to-that-admitted-here.html |access-date=12 November 2020 |work=[[The New York Times]] |date=3 September 1921}}</ref> the President of the [[Isthmian Canal Commission|Panama Canal Commission]] who was then living at [[Whittemore House (Washington, D.C.)|1526 New Hampshire Avenue]] in [[Washington, D.C.]]<ref name="1906Engagement">{{cite news |last1=Cablegram |first1=Special |title=MISS THEODORA SHONTS WILL BE A DUCHESS; Her Engagement to Duc de Chaulnes Announced. ROMANCE BEGAN IN FRANCE The Bride-to-Be Is the Youngest Daughter of the President of the Panama Canal Commission. |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1906/11/28/archives/miss-theodora-shonts-will-be-a-duchess-her-engagement-to-duc-de.html |access-date=10 November 2020 |work=[[The New York Times]] |date=28 November 1906}}</ref>{{refn|group=lower-alpha|Theodora's younger sister, Marguerite Shonts, later married Rutherford Bingham, the son of Gen. [[Theodore A. Bingham]], former [[New York City Police Commissioner]], in 1917.<ref name="1917Wedding">{{cite news |title=MISS JANE MORGAN WED TO GEO. NICHOLS; Elder Daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J.P. Morgan Married in St. John's, Lattingtown, L.I. MARGUERITE SHONTS WEDS The Bride of Rutherfurd Bingham in St. Thomas's--Nuptials of Miss Johns and L.S. Kirtland. Bride Walks with Her Father. Bingham-Shonts. Miss Aileen Sedgwick Weds. Lieut. Commander Dowell Marries. Bride of L.S. Kirtland. Miss Finn Weds Ignace Panzer. Walters--Dauer. Lieutenant Gillespie Weds Miss Burne. Franklin-Kenyon. Mrs. Aphie James Weds. Swan-Pells. (Published 1917) |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1917/11/15/archives/miss-jane-morgan-wed-to-geo-nichols-elder-daughter-of-mr-and-mrs-jp.html |access-date=12 November 2020 |work=[[The New York Times]] |date=15 November 1917}}</ref>}} They married on 16 February 1908 at 132 [[35th Street (Manhattan)|East 35th Street]], the home of the bride's father in New York City.<ref name="1908Details">{{cite news |title=SHONTS WEDDING PLANS.; Miss Shonts's Marriage to the Duc de Chaulnes to Take Place at Noon Feb. 15. (Published 1908) |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1908/02/01/archives/shonts-wedding-plans-miss-shontss-marriage-to-the-duc-de-chaulnes.html |access-date=12 November 2020 |work=[[The New York Times]] |date=1 February 1908}}</ref><ref name="1908Wedding">{{cite news |title=MISS SHONTS IS BRIDE OF FRENCH DUKE |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=LAH19080216.2.7&e=-------en--20--1--txt-txIN--------1 |access-date=12 November 2020 |work=[[Los Angeles Herald]] |issue=137 |date=16 February 1908|volume = 35}}</ref><ref name="1908NYTWedding">{{cite news |title=MISS SHONTS BRIDE OF DUC DE CHAULNES; Marriage Ceremony Performed After the French Fashion Before Hundreds of Guests. ONE UNTOWARD INCIDENT Party of Wedding Guests Held Up Between Floors for Fifteen Minutes In the Elevator. MISS SHONTS BRIDE OF DUC DE CHAULNES (Published 1908) |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1908/02/16/archives/miss-shonts-bride-of-duc-de-chaulnes-marriage-ceremony-performed.html |access-date=12 November 2020 |work=[[The New York Times]] |date=16 February 1908}}</ref> Less than three months after they married, the Duke died. Theodora gave birth to their son in November of the same year:<ref name="1908birth"/><ref name="1908Overjoyed">{{cite news |last1=TIMES |first1=Special Cable to THE NEW YORK |title=SHONTS OVERJOYED AT BIRTH OF DUKE; Dances About with Duchesse d'Uzes -- French Relations in Nobility Are Also Happy. BOY IS NAMED FOR FATHER Eleven Members of the Shonts Family in Paris -- Every Courtesy Shown by de Chaulnes's Relatives. |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1908/11/18/archives/shonts-overjoyed-at-birth-of-duke-dances-about-with-duchesse-duzes.html |access-date=12 November 2020 |work=[[The New York Times]] |date=18 November 1908}}</ref>
* [[Emmanuel Théodore d'Albert de Luynes|Emmanuel Théodore Bernard Marie d'Albert, 12th Duke of Chaulnes]] (born posthumously 1908–1980)<ref name="gallian2007"/>
Tragically, like his grandfather and father before him, the Duke of Chaulnes died young with all three men dying at or around thirty years old. Emmanuel died from heart failure (reportedly due in part to an addiction to [[morphine]] pills), in the arms of his wife, on 24 April 1908 in his apartment in the Hotel Langham in the Rue du Boccador in Paris.<ref name="1908Obit">{{cite news |title=Duc de Chaulnes Dies in Arms of Wife |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=SFC19080425.2.11&e=-------en--20--1--txt-txIN--------1 |access-date=10 November 2020 |work=[[San Francisco Call]] |issue=147 |date=25 April 1908|volume = 103}}</ref> The Duke was interred at his family's estate, [[Château de Dampierre]],<ref name="1908Burial">{{cite news |title=Duc de Chaulnes Buried. |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1908/04/29/archives/duc-de-chaulnes-buried.html |access-date=12 November 2020 |work=[[The New York Times]] |date=29 April 1908}}</ref> where Theodora spent the beginning of her widowhood.<ref name="1908birth">{{cite news |title=HEIR TO DUC DE CHAULNES; Son Born to Widowed Duchess, Daughter of Theodore Shonts. |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1908/11/17/archives/heir-to-duc-de-chaulnes-son-born-to-widowed-duchess-daughter-of.html |access-date=12 November 2020 |work=[[The New York Times]] |date=17 November 1908}}</ref> His widow lived another fifty-eight years until her death on 19 October 1966.<ref name="gallian2007">{{cite web |title=Généalogie des familles nobles {{!}} ALBERT de LUYNES |url=http://jean.gallian.free.fr/comm2/Images/genealog/albert/p2a.pdf |website=jean.gallian.free.fr |access-date=12 November 2020 |date=2007}}</ref><ref name="1909Engagement">{{cite news |last1=TIMES |first1=Special Cable to THE NEW YORK |title=NOT ENGAGED TO MURAT.; Duchess de Chaulnes Says She Does Not Know Prince. |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1909/07/17/archives/not-engaged-to-murat-duchess-de-chaulnes-says-she-does-not-know.html |access-date=12 November 2020 |work=[[The New York Times]] |date=17 July 1909}}</ref>
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