Person:Charles O'Brien, 6th Viscount Clare (1)

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Charles O'Brien, 6th Viscount Clare
b.17 Mar 1699
d.9 Sep 1761 Montpellier, Hérault, France
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  1. Charles O'Brien, 6th Viscount Clare1699 - 1761
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  • H.  Charles O'Brien, 6th Viscount Clare1699 - 1761
  • W.  Marie Genevieve Louise Gauthier (add)
  1. Charles O'Brien, 7th Viscount Clare1757 - 1774
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Name Charles O'Brien, 6th Viscount Clare
Gender Male
Birth[1] 17 Mar 1699
Marriage to Marie Genevieve Louise Gauthier (add)
Death[1] 9 Sep 1761 Montpellier, Hérault, France
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Charles O'Brien, (17 March 16999 September 1761), 6th Viscount Clare (titular 9th Earl of Thomond) was an Irish military officer in French service, known to posterity as the Maréchal de Thomond.

Charles O'Brien was the son of Charles O'Brien, 5th Viscount Clare and Charlotte Bulkeley, the sister of Anne, second wife of James FitzJames, 1st Duke of Berwick and Marshal of France. He fought for France against Spain in 1718 with the rank of colonel in the service of his father's regiment and later fought in the War of the Polish Succession in the siege of Philippsburg in June 1734, where he was wounded. He gained the rank of Maréchal de Camp in 1735 in the service of the King's Armies. O'Brien also fought in the Battle of Dettingen in 1743 and in the Battle of Fontenoy in 1745.

O'Brien was invested as a Knight, L'Ordre du Saint-Esprit of France on 2 February 1746 at the chapel of Versailles, Île-de-France, France. He held the office of Governor of Neuf-Brisach in Alsace, and was Commander-in-Chief of the province of Languedoc. In 1757 he was made a Marshal of France. He died on 9 September 1761, aged 62, at Montpellier, France.

O'Brien married Marie Genevieve Louise Gautier, daughter of François Gautier, marquis de Chiffreville, in 1755 and had three children:

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  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Charles O'Brien, 6th Viscount Clare, in Wikipedia: The Free Encyclopedia.
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