Category:Charles de Chambray, sieur de Poncé

sieur de Poncé (Ponsay, Ponssay, Poussay)

Died 19 November 1641 at Poncé Castle (today: Poncé-sur-le-Loir)

Son of Gilles de Chambray (died in 1602) and his second wife Louise d’Alonville (marriage in 1580). Gilles de Chambray's first wife, married in 1567, was Esther de Coutance. Married in 1629 to Catherine du Mur (Dumur, du Meur). Children: Jean IV de Chambry (born in 1629, died in 1662), Jeanne de Chambray (born in 1622; married to Nicolas de Thiville, comte de Bapaulme; died in 1664), Colombe de Chambray (born in 1629; married in 1648 to Pierre de Durcet).

Knight of the Order of the King, Lord of the Castles of Poncé, Hauteville, les Loges and Chevelu

• Dictionnaire de la noblesse, vol. 4, 2nd ed., Paris: La Veuve Duchesne 1772, 173 (04tYAAAAMAAJ)

• ‘De Chambray’, in: Nobiliaire universel de France, vol. 30, Paris: Bureau du Nobiliaire universel, 1815, 116-131, esp. 128 (DbEUAAAAQAAJ)

• Lucien Merlet, Registres et minutes des notaires du comté de Dunois (1369 à 1676). Inventaire sommaire, Chartres: Garnier 1886, 312 (TSJISXhaH38C)

• Emmanuel Toublet, ‘Les peintures murales de Poncé’, in: Revue historique et archéologique du Maine, 30 (1891), 129-176, esp. 171-172 (WHlHAAAAYAAJ)