Jean Baptiste de Croy

Lineage and Family

Croy was the son of Ferdinand Francois Joseph de Croy-Solre, Duke of Havre. His brother Charles Antoine Joseph, the 4th Duke of Havre, was killed during the Battle of Saragossa in 1710 and Croy succeeded him as Duke. His sister, Marie Therese Josephe married Landgrave Philip of Hesse-Darmstadt

Croy married Marie Anne Cesarine Lante Montefeltro della Rovere, of the House of della Rovere; the daughter of Antonio Lante Montefeltro della Rovere. This line of the House of Croy came to an end in 1839, when the 7th Duke of Havre and Croy died in Paris aged 95, having outlived all of his sons.