Jacques Charles de Fitz-James, 5th Duke of Fitz-James (16 November 1743 – 11 August 1805) was a French-born nobleman.
He was a grandson of James FitzJames, 1st Duke of Berwick, himself an illegitimate son of King James II and VII by Arabella Churchill, herself a sister of the 1st Duke of MarlboroughThomson, G. M. (1987). The First Churchill: Life of the Duke of Marlborough. Morrow while his mother was a daughter of Charles Auguste de Goyon, Count of Gacé, Marshal of France.Louis de Rouvroy, duc de Saint-Simon, Mémoires, édition établie par Yves Coirault, t. 8, Paris, Editions Gallimard, tome 8, p. 1517. During the French Revolution, Fitz-James was also part of the Armée des Émigrés.Forneron, Henri (1834–1886), Histoire générale des émigrés pendant la Révolution française, Forneron, E. Plon, Nourrit (Paris), T.I, p. 264.
Marriage On 26 December 1768, he married Marie Claudine Sylvie de Bissy, daughter of Henri Charles Gabriel de Bissy, Count of Thiard.
Children Henriette Victoire de Fitz-James (born 10 October 1770) married the Marquis de Maillé. Charles Jean de Fitz-James (born 1773) Édouard de Fitz-James, 6th Duke of Fitz-James (10 January 1776 – 15 November 1838)
Titles 16 November 1743 – 22 March 1787: The Marquis of Fitz-JamesTitres, anoblissements et pairies de la restauration 1814-1830, pp 60 22 March 1787 – 11 August 1805: The Duke of Fitz-James, Peer of France
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