GRAMMONT, or GRAMONT, PIIILLIBERT, Count of, a celebrated French courtier, son of Anthony, duke of Grammont, was b. about 1621. While still very young he served as a volunteer under Conde and Turenne, and distinguished himself by the most chivalric bravery. At the court of Louis XIV., with this reputation added to his youth, noble birth, a handsome person, fine talents and accomplishments, a lively wit, and strangely good fortune at play, at which lie won such amounts as to support even his extravagant expenditures, it is no wonder that lie became a favorite. Ile was tinguished for his gallantries, and even bad the audacity to aspire to be the rival of the king in the affections of one of his favorites. This caused him to be banished from France; and he found a pleasant refuge and congenial society in the gay and licentious court of Charles IT. of England. Here, after many adventures, he engaged to marry
Eliza Hamilton, sister of Alithony, count Hamilton, but slipped out of London without fulfilling his promise. Two of the lady's brothers set off in pursuit of the forgetful Frenchman, and coming up with him at Dover, asked him "if lie had not forgotten something." "Oil, to be sure," replied Grammont, "I have forgotten to marry your sister;" and returned to to complete his engagement. He then went to his wife became one of the ladies of the court of Maria Theresa of Austria. By this marriage daughters, one of whom Howard, mar quis of Stratford, and the other became abbess of Poussay, in Lorraine. He died in 1707. See Memoirs of the Comte de Gram moat by his brother-in-law, Anthony, count Hamilton (edited by sir Walter Scott in 1811; reprinted in Bohn's "extra volumes").