# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/benigne-dauvergne-de-saint-mars
# Generated: 2026-08-15T18:30:52.711Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/benigne-dauvergne-de-saint-mars"
name: "Bénigne Dauvergne de Saint-Mars"
slug: "benigne-dauvergne-de-saint-mars"
description: "Bénigne d'Auvergne de Saint-Mars was a French prison governor in the late 17th and early 18th century. He is best known as the apparent keeper of the Man in the Iron Mask. According to letters written by Saint-Mars to various officials and ministers of France, he had in his custody a prisoner of State, whom he carried with him from Pinerolo to the Lérins Islands, and later to the Bastille."
tagline: "French prison governor"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/St-mars.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "France"
  isoCode: "FR"
profileType:
  name: "Other"
  slug: "other"
birthDate: "1626"
deathDate: "1708-09-18"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           48.34
  momentum:             11.05263157894737
  historical:           5.722898666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     40
  profileCompleteness:  65
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/ch0405772/"
    handle:    "ch0405772"
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B%C3%A9nigne_Dauvergne_de_Saint-Mars"
    title: "Bénigne Dauvergne de Saint-Mars"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://bg.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%91%D0%B5%D0%BD%D0%B8%D0%BD_%D0%94%D0%BE%D0%B2%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%BD_%D0%B4%D1%8C%D0%BE_%D0%A1%D0%B5%D0%BD-%D0%9C%D0%B0%D1%80"
    title: "Бенин Доверн дьо Сен-Мар"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/B%C3%A9nigne_Dauvergne_de_Saint-Mars"
    title: "Bénigne Dauvergne de Saint-Mars"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EB%B2%A0%EB%8B%88%EB%89%B4_%EB%8F%84%EB%B2%A0%EB%A5%B4%EB%89%B4_%EB%93%9C_%EC%83%9D%EB%A7%88%EB%A5%B4%EC%8A%A4"
    title: "베니뉴 도베르뉴 드 생마르스"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/B%C3%A9nigne_Dauvergne_de_Saint-Mars"
    title: "Bénigne Dauvergne de Saint-Mars"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/B%C3%A9nigne_Dauvergne_de_Saint-Mars"
    title: "Bénigne Dauvergne de Saint-Mars"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q348806"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump