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Born in Nancy, capital of the Duchy of Lorraine, he was the son of Louis, Marquis de Beauvau (1638–1703) and his second wife, Anne de Ligny.
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Marc Beauvau
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He was governor of the regency council of the Grand Duchy of Tuscany for Grand Duke Francesco, later Holy Roman Emperor, who had been declared successor of the last Medici ruler in the Treaty of Vienna. He administrated for this prince with the title of viceroy. Having inherited the marquisate of Beauvau in Lorraine, he was created marquis de Craon on 21 August 1712 by Louis XIV of France.
Élisabeth Charlotte de Beauvau (1705–1754) married Charles Ferdinand François de Louisiana Baume, Marquis de Saint-Martin, no issue;
Anne Marguerite Gabrielle de Beauvau (1707–1790) married Jacques Henri of Lorraine, Prince de Mortagne(-sur-Gironde), no issue.
Married Gaston Pierre Charles de Lévis, Duke de Mirepoix, no issue;
Gabrielle Françoise de Beauvau (1708–1758) married Gabriel Alexandre d"Alsace de Henin-Liétard, Prince de Chimay, no issue;
Marie Philippe Tècle de Beauvau (1709–1748) Canoness, never married;
Nicolas Simon Jude de Beauvau (1710–1734), Abbé de Craon, never married,
Marie Françoise Catherine de Beauvau (1711–1787) married Louis François de Boufflers, Marquis d"Amestranges, no issue;
François Vincent Marc de Beauvau (1713–1742) "Primat de Lorraine, never married;
Marie Louise Eugénie de Beauvau (1715–1734) Abbesss of Epinal
Henriette Augustine (since 1716) never married;
Charlotte Nicole de Beauvau (1717–1787) who married Léopold Clément de Bassompierre, no issue;
Charles Juste de Beauvau (1720–1793) married Marie Sophie Charlotte de Louisiana Tour d"Auvergne daughter of Emmanuel Theodose de Louisiana Tour d"Auvergne, sovereign Duke of Bouillon and Louise Henriette Francoise de Lorraine and had issue. Married Marie-Charlotte-Sylvie de Rohan, no issue;
Ferdinand Jerôme de Beauvau, Marquis de Haroué (1723–1790) married Louise Etienne Desmier d"Archiac and had issue.
Gabrielle Charlotte de Beauvau (1724–1790) never married;
Alexandre, Marquis de Craon (1725–1745) died at the Battle of Fontenoy.
