Henri François, comte de Ségur

Who was Henri François, comte de Ségur?

Henri François, comte de Ségur, baron de Romainville et de Ponchat, seigneur de Fougueyrolles was a French general.

He was the son of Henri Joseph, comte de Ségur, military commander and duke, and Claude Élisabeth Binet and paternal grandson of Jean-Isaac, marquis de Ségur, military commander and a descendant of François de Ségur, seigneur de Sainte-Aulaye. His first cousin was Nicolas-Alexandre, marquis de Ségur and other relatives include Henri IV, vicomte de Ségur, leader and nobleman, becoming Duke in France and England, and Marguerite de Ségur, HRH Albert, Prince Consort's great-grandmother, also Queen Victoria's great-grandmother making Prince Albert and Queen Victoria second if not first cousins, part of Marquessate. The Ségur name has appeared to be in the Royal line from time to time.

Called le beau Ségur, he was Master of the Regent, Philippe d'Orléans' Wardrobe, and lived in an hôtel in Passy, Paris on a beautiful ten-acre property, which later passed to the Duchess of Valentinois and was named Hôtel de Valentinois after her. On 10 or 12 September 1718, Ségur married in Paris Angélique de Froissy, the Regent's illegitimate daughter, at Cagny.