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Capt. David Digues de la Touche (né Digues; 15 November 1671 – 17 October 1745), also styled Monsieur des Rompures; was a French soldier who settled in Dublin and and founded the bank La Touche & Sons, the precursor to the Bank of Ireland.

The patriarch of the La Touche family, his descendants were influential in banking, politics, educational reform, and philanthropy. They included five Members of Parliament, civil servant Sir James La Touche, ornithologist John David Digues La Touche; and Rose La Touche, whose romance with John Ruskin led to her tragic death at age 25.

Origin

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Digues de la Touches was born at Château de la Touche in Mer, Orléanais


into the minor French nobility land-owners. La granada The Digues family is believed to have originated in Spain coming from the name Diego. The shield in the Digues' coat of arms is the same as those of the Kingdom of Granada, differenced with the addition of a chief: Argent, a pomegranate proper, slipped and leaved gules; on a chief of the last two mullets of the field


argent, a pomegranate proper, couped, gules, on a chief of the last, two mullets of the field

or, seeded proper, leaves vert [1] [a]

Denis Digues, Councillor Secretary of the King's Chamber and Commissaire de la Marine du Ponant, who was born about 1582. He married Judith, widow of Jacob Isambart, Seigneur de la Brosse Salerne, and daughter of Francois Dutens, Seigneur de la Touche et de la Motte, and of Michelle Maillard, from whom these rights came.

Their children were : (1) Louis de la Brosse Salerne (who settled in Holland), (2) Denis (of whom later), (3) Judith, d.s.a. (4) Marie, m. Paul, Seigneur de Buisson, and (5) Anne, m. Isaie Guymet, Seigneur de Beaulieu.


Denis Digues, second of the name, Seigneur de la Touche and de la Motte, Gentleman Archer of the Guard of his Royal Highness Gaston of France was born at the Chateau de la Brosse Salerne, August 11, 1627, and baptized at the Protestant Church of Mer four days later ; he married (first) Madeleine Jacquet, who died without issue, (second) Madeleine, daughter of the late Paul de Planche, Councillor to the King.

By the marriage of Denis Digues de la Touche with Madeleine de Planche were nine children :

1. Paul, Chevalier, Seigneur de la Touche et de la Motte, Captain of Infantry, Chevalier de Saint Lazarre de Jerusalem et de Notre Dame de Mont Carmel ; he abjured Calvinism. Of his descendants the last died in 1745, when the senior branch thus became extinct.

2. Daniel, Monsieur de la Motte, settled at Amsterdam, where he married three times and left issue.

3. Louis, also settled at Amsterdam, and married there, at the Protestant Church of Lordun, Anne Catherine Catillon. Some years afterwards they returned to France and abjured the Protestant religion before Bishop David-Nicolas Bertier, Bishop of Blois. This branch became extinct in 1809.

4. David (founder of the Irish branch, to be mentioned later).

5. Henri, died young.

6. Matthieu Paul, supposed to have settled in England and to be the author of a grammar published in 1696 at Amsterdam and entitled L'Art de bien parler Français. Pierre de la Touche (died 1730) This work, which is in two volumes, is dedicated to the Duke of Gloucester. Smiles mentions these facts, both of which, however, appear doubtful.1

7. Susan, ^

8. Madeleine, !>so far as is known, they died unmarried.

9. Judith,


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married in 1615 Judith Duten dame de la Touche et de la Motte, daughter of François Dutens, seigneur de la Touche et de la Motte, et Michelle Maillard died

Dunois, Blois, Orléans, Holland and Ireland.


Grandfather was Denis Digues, seigneur de la Brosse-Salerne (1582 – 1 September 1629) Councillor Secretary of the King's Chamber and Commissaire de la Marine du Ponant


, from whom two branches of the Digues family desc

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Digues was the fourth son of Denys Digues, seigneur de la Touche et de la Motte, nobleman, and his second wife Madeleine Deplanche. of Château de la Touche, Blois, France

[4] A refugee, Loire Valley Digues fled France for Holland after the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes, and for William of Orange during the Williamite War in Ireland.[5] He and his descendants adopted the surname La Touche and became prominent in banking, politics, and philanthropy in Ireland.[6]

Exile

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A Huguenot refugee from the Loire Valley, La Touche served at the Battle of the Boyne and founded the bank La Touche & Sons in Dublin. A and

Dublin

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who settled in Dublin, where he established a silk, poplin and cambric business.


he established La Touche Bank.


Notes

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  1. ^ French: d'argent a une grenade ouverte de gueules, tigée et feuilée de sinople; au chef de gueles charge de deux étoiles du champ

References

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  1. ^ Burke, Bernard (1863). A Genealogical and Heraldic Dictionary of the Landed Gentry of Great Britain and Ireland. Harrison. p. 838. Retrieved 29 September 2024.
  2. ^ La Touche, Annette M (1917). "Some Records of the Family of Digues de la Touche". Proceedings of the Huguenot Society of London. 11. Huguenot Society of London.: 227. Retrieved 29 September 2024.
  3. ^ Magny, Vicomte Ludovic de (1865). Le Nobiliaire universel: ou Recueil général des généalogies historiques et véridiques des maisons nobles de l'Europe (in French). Editeur non identifié. pp. 1–5. Retrieved 29 September 2024.
  4. ^ Urwick, William (1868). "His Ancestry and Parentage". Biographic sketches of the late James Digges La Touche. Retrieved 28 September 2024.
  5. ^ Beaumont, Daniel. "La Touche, David Digues I". Dictionary of Irish Biography. Royal Irish Academy.
  6. ^ Young, M. F. (1914). "The La Touche Family of Harristown, County Kildare". Journal of the County Kildare Archaeological Society. VII: 33.
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