Corisande de Gramont, Countess of Tankerville (5 October 1782 – 23 January 1865), styled Lady Ossulston from 1806 to 1822, was a French noblewoman and the wife of Charles Bennet, 5th Earl of Tankerville.
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Biography
Birth and background
Corisande Armandine Sophie Léonie Hélène de Gramont was born on 5 October 1782 in Paris, France. She was likely named after the Countess of Guiche, Diane d'Andoins (1554–1621), who was called La Belle Corisande ("The Beautiful Corisande").
Corisande was the eldest child and first daughter of the Duke of Guiche, Antoine Louis Marie de Gramont, and his wife, Aglaé de Polignac. Her parents married two years before her birth in July 1780. Corisande had a younger sister and brother: Aglaé (1787–1842) and Héraclius (1789–1855).
Early life
As the granddaughter of Yolande de Polastron, the Polignac family were given benefits from the queen. Corisande and her younger siblings lived at the court of Marie Antoinette in the Palace of Versailles.