Géraud Michel de Pierredon

Count Géraud Michel de Pierredon (22 April 1916, Magné - 17 November 2006, Magné, Vienne) served as Ambassador of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta to France from 1982.[1]

Cross pro Merito Melitensi

Life

The son of His Excellency Count Thierry Michel de Pierredon and Princess Mabel Constance de Polignac, his family were created papal counts in 1882.

The family own Château de la Roche, near Magné in France, where the Museum of the Knights of Malta is located. The Count wrote several books on the Sovereign Military Order of Malta and was a Bailiff Grand Cross of the Order.

His elder daughter, Countess Marie-Ange Michel de Pierredon (born 1953), who married firstly in 1995 (divorced) the 5th Earl of Liverpool,[2] is a Dame of Honour and Devotion of the Order of Malta.[3] Countess Liliane Fawcett (born 1956), his younger daughter, has two daughters by her hedge fund manager husband, Christopher Fawcett.[4]

References
  1. "Obituary of H.E. Bailiff the Count Michel de Pierredon". Sovereign Military Order of Malta (SMOM). 26 November 2006. Archived from the original on 12 May 2011.
  2. www.burkespeerage.com
  3. www.thepeerage.com
  4. www.coram.org.uk
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