Jean Baptiste Colbert, Marquis of Torcy

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Jean Baptiste Colbert
Marquis of Torcy
Portrait by François de Troy, between 1701 and 1706.
Full name	Jean Baptiste Colbert
Born	14 September 1665 Paris, France
Died	2 septembre 1746 (aged 80) Chaillot, Paris, France
Noble family	Colbert family
Spouse(s)	Catherine Félicité Arnauld (1696)
Issue	Jean Baptiste Joachim, Marquis of Croissy
Father	Charles Colbert, Marquis of Croissy
Mother	Marguerite Béraud

Jean Baptiste Colbert, Marquis of Torcy (14 September 1665 – 2 September 1746), generally called Colbert de Torcy, was a French diplomat, who negotiated some of the most important treaties towards the end of Louis XIV's reign, notably the treaty (1700) that occasioned the War of the Spanish Succession (1701–1714), in which the dying Charles II of Spain named Louis XIV's grandson, Philippe of France, Duke of Anjou, heir to the Spanish throne, eventually founding the line of Bourbons of Spain.