Jean Armand de Maillé-Brézé
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Jean Armand de Maillé-Brézé, Duke of Fronsac, Marquis de Brézé (born October 18, 1619 in Milly-le-Meugon , † June 14, 1646 before Orbetello ) was a French admiral .
Life
He was born into one of the most powerful families in France at the time. His father was Urbain de Maillé-Brézé , Marquis de Brézé, Marshal of France , his uncle Cardinal Richelieu , King Louis XIII. First Minister , and his brother-in-law Louis II. De Bourbon, prince de Condé , (better known as le Grand Condé ), what was the First Prince of the Blood . The family seat was the Brézé Castle .
It was thanks to his uncle that at the age of 17 he received the title of grand-maître de la navigation (Grand Master of the Navy), one of King Louis XIII's. newly created title for Cardinal Richelieu, which was equivalent to Admiral of France .
He was one of the leading figures in the Eighty Years' War and defeated the Spanish fleet on July 20, 1640 in the battle of Cádiz and then took Villafraca. In 1641 he was sent to Portugal to assist the Portuguese in the war of restoration against Spain. In 1642 he fought back Spanish forces near Barcelona and almost completely destroyed a Spanish fleet near Cartagena on July 3, 1643. On June 16, 1646, he was killed by a cannonball in the battle of Orbetello ; France lost the battle against the Spanish fleet.
His remains were buried in the chapel of Milly-le-Meugon, near the castle walls.
Honors
Three ships were named after him in his honor:
- The ship of the line Brézé (1646–1665) equipped with 46 cannons
- The French destroyer Maillé Brézé (1931-1940) of the Vauquelin class , which was destroyed in 1940 in the accidental explosion of one of its torpedoes near Greenock .
- The French destroyer Maillé-Brézé (1953-1988) of the T 47 class , which is currently in a museum in Nantes is
literature
- Louis Gabriel Michaud . "Maillé-Brézé". Biography universelle ancienne et Moderne: histoire par ordre alphabétique de la vie publique et privée de tous les hommes avec la collaboration de plus de 300 savants et littérateurs français ou étrangers
- La Bruyère, René, La marine de Richelieu; Maillé-Brézé, général des galères, grand amiral (1619-1646) , Plon, Paris, 1945, 245 pages.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ LE MAILLE-BREZE , accessed on March 3, 2019
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Maillé-Brézé, Jean Armand de |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Maillé-Brézé, Jean Armand de, Duke of Fronsac, Marquis de Brézé |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French admiral |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 18, 1619 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Milly-le-Meugon |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 14, 1646 |
| Place of death | at Orbetello |