Born September 6, 1757, at Chavaniac, France, Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette was the son of Michel du Motier and Marie de La Rivière. He was orphaned young and inherited a fortune and the title of marquis from his maternal grandfather. The elder La Fayette named his son in honor of George Washington, under whom he served in the Revolutionary War. Marie Joseph Paul Yves Roche Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette was born in 1757. “The Hero of the Two Worlds” had a function in both the American and French revolutions. His father was killed while fighting against the British in the Seven Years' War (1756–63). A long-established military family, an ancestor had served with Joan of Arc at the Siege of Orleans during the Hundred Years' War. His name is also spelled Lafayette. If there was a rock star of the American Revolution, it was a man who went by an impressively lengthy name: Marie Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette. His mother was Marie Louise Jolie de La Rivière. His father "Louis Christophe du Motier" was Marquis of La Fayette in his own right. He believed in Enlightenment, and played an important role both in the American War of Independence and the French Revolution. His mother and grandfather died when he was thirteen, leaving him a … Gilbert du Motier, marquis de La Fayette (Marie Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert; 6 September 1757 – 20 May 1834) was a French artistocrat, politician and Liberal thinker. Marie Adrienne Françoise de Noailles, Marquise de La Fayette (2 November 1759 – 24 December 1807), was a French marchioness. Marquis de Lafayette, in full Marie-Joseph-Paul-Yves-Roch-Gilbert du Motier, marquis de Lafayette, Lafayette also spelled La Fayette, (born September 6, 1757, Chavaniac, France—died May 20, 1834, Paris), French aristocrat who fought in the Continental Army with the American colonists against the British in the American Revolution. Before his second birthday, his father, Michel de Lafayette, was killed at the battle of Minden during the Seven Year's War. She was from an aristocratic family from the north part of France. Orphaned at the age of 13, this young noble descended from an illustrious Auvergnois family. Children Marie-Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette (French pronunciation: [maʁki də la fajɛt]; 6 September 1757 – 20 May 1834), in the United States often known simply as Lafayette, was a French aristocrat and military officer who fought in the American Revolutionary War. [2] El linaje de Lafayette parece ser uno de los más antiguos en Auvernia. Marie Adrienne Françoise de Noailles, Marquise de La Fayette (2 November 1759 – 24 December 1807), was a French marchioness. Gilbert du Motier was born at the "château de Chavaniac" in southern France. Marie-Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette (French pronunciation: [maʁki də la fajɛt]; 6 September 1757 – 20 May 1834), in the United States often known simply as Lafayette, was a French aristocrat and military officer who fought in the American Revolutionary War. Marie Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette was born on September 6, 1757, in the province of Auvergne, France. MARQUIS DE LAFAYETTE (1757–1834) Marie-Joseph-Paul-Yves-Roch-Gilbert du Motier de Lafayette was born on September 6, 1757, in Chavaniac, France, to an aristocratic family. Marie Joseph Paul Yves Roche Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette, was born into a family of noble military lineage on September 6, 1757, in Chavaniac, France. Gilbert Motier de La Fayette (1380 – 22 February 1462) Seigneur of La Fayette, Pontgibaud, Ayes, Nébouzac, Saint-Romain and Montel-de-Gelat was a Marshal of France and an ancestor of Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette Hijo de Michel Louis Cristophe Roch Gilbert Paulette du Motier, Marqués de Lafayette, coronel de granaderos, y de Marie Louise de La Rivière, nació en el Château de Chavaniac, en Chavaniac, cerca de Le Puy-en-Velay, en la provincia de Auvernia (hoy, Alto Loira).