Armand de Foucauld de Pontbriand
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Armand de Foucauld de Pontbriand (24 November 1751 – 2 September 1792) was a French Catholic prelate who served as vicar general of the Archdiocese of Arles and was one of the 191 Catholic Martyrs of September 1792, killed in the September Massacres during the French Revolution. He was beatified as a member of that group on 17 October 1926 by Pope Pius XI.
Armand de Foucauld de Pontbriand was born on 24 November 1751, at Château de Lascoux in Celles, Dordogne, the son of Henri de Foucauld (1712–1775), seigneur of Lascoux.[1] and Sibylle Marie du Lau d'Allemans. He belonged to the Pontbriand branch of the Foucauld (Périgord) family; he was the great-great uncle of Charles de Foucauld (1858–1916).
He took religious orders and became canon of Meaux in 1774. In 1781, he was summoned by his first cousin (maternal), Monseigneur Jean Marie du Lau, the archbishop of Arles, to become vicar general. In 1787, he received the Abbey of Solignac, near Limoges as a benefice, being the last in the line of abbots there.