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Genealogy profile for Marie Dauger de Cavoye Genealogy for Marie Dauger de Cavoye (1631 - d.) family tree on Geni, with over 190 million profiles of ancestors and living relatives. A few weeks ago I commenced my quest to search for the truth behind the legend of the Man in the Iron Mask. The Man in the Iron Mask (French: L'Homme au Masque de Fer; c. 1640 – 19 November 1703) was an unidentified prisoner who was arrested in 1669 or 1670 and subsequently held in a number of French prisons, including the Bastille and the Fortress of Pignerol (modern Pinerolo, Italy). After searching the archives of the Cavoye family, Duvivier was able to establish that the last recorded reference to Eustache Dauger de Cavoye was January 1668, just eighteen months before the imprisonment of Eustache Dauger in … Historians believe that Dauger began to lose his mind and fall into the Chambre Ardent Affair (The Affaire of Poisons). If one can imagine Eustache Dauger as a member of the King’s household with close ties of loyalty to the Montespan family, one might also imagine him playing spy and agent against the King. The problem with the theory that de Cavoye is the same Eustache Dauger as the man said to be punished in the iron mask, is that he de Cavoye was being held in Saint-Lazare prison, while the Man in the Iron Mask was in Pignerol. He is buried in the graveyard of the church Saint-Paul-Saint-Louis in Paris. They had eleven children, among them (and this is not Batiffol, this is me googling) Louis d’Oger, marquis de Cavoye, who was prominent at the court of the Sun King, and Eustache Dauger de Cavoye, who was at one point suspected by the historians to be the famous Man in the Iron Mask. His tombstone says his name was Marchiali. He was held in the Według teorii profesora Paula Sonnino z University of California Człowiekiem w Żelaznej Masce był kamerdyner Eustache Dauger de Cavoye. Furthermore, there is significant evidence that de Cavoye died in the 1680s, well before the more famous Eustache Dauger. W zamku d’If znajduje się tablica z napisem Prison dite de l‘Homme au Masque de Fer. Having tried to bring as much salacious gossip to the fore as possible, I reached the conclusion that the man was not the libertine, possible back street abortionist and devil worshipping rapist Eustache Dauger de Cavoye. Other sources also give the names Marchioly, or Marchialy. It is known that a real Eustache Dauger de Cavoye, the son of a captain in Cardinal Richelieu’s guards, did exist, born in 1637. Further, he ultimately also joined the army but eventually was forced to resign in disgrace after killing a young boy in a drunken brawl. Do dziś nie wiadomo dlaczego musiał nosić maskę i dlaczego pozostawał pod ścisłym nadzorem. The writer who traced the prisoner named Eustache Dauger to Eustache Dauger de Cavoye was Maurice Duvivier, whose book on the Iron Mask was published in 1932. His service in the military has been well documented but little is known about him afterwards. Eustache Dauger de Cavoye was a wealthy man born to a good family and his mother had worked for the queen of France. When he was first imprisoned, the identity of the man was given as Eustache Dauger. Daughter of Guillaume de Lort de Sérignan, seigneur de Sérignan ur de and Marie de Bonnet Wife of François Ogier, seigneur de Cavoye Mother of Eustache Ogier de Cavoye; Constance Dauger de Cavoye; Pierre Dauger de Cavoye; Charlotte Dauger de Cavoye; Louise Henriette Dauger de Cavoye No doubt he would have been the one who first informed the Archbishop of the King’s adulterous relationship with Madame de Montespan. Découvrez gratuitement l'arbre généalogique de Eustache Dauger de Cavoye pour tout savoir sur ses origines et son histoire familiale.