Antoine IV d'Estrées

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Antoine IV. D'Estrées (Fantasy Portrait of an Unknown Painter, 19th Century French School, Paris, Musée de l'Armée )

Antoine IV. D'Estrées (* around 1529 , † May 11, 1609 ) was a French nobleman and military man . He is best known as the father of Gabrielle d'Estrées .

In 1568 he became a knight in the Ordre de Saint-Michel and in 1578 a knight in the Ordre du Saint-Esprit (one of 24 appointments by Henry III ). He was Governor, Seneschal and First Baron des Boulonnais , Viscount de Soissons and Viscount de Bercy , Seigneur , Châtelain et Marquis de Cœuvres , Governor of La Fère , Governor of Paris and Île-de-France , Grand Master of the Artillery of France (from Henry IV. Appointed at the Siege of Amiens (1597)).

origin

Antoine d'Estrées belongs to the Estrées family . He is the son of Jean I. d'Estrées , Comte d ' Orbec , Seigneur de Cœuvres, and Catherine de Bourbon-Vendome-Ligny (around 1580 – around 1630), daughter of Jacques de Bourbon, Bâtard de Vendôme (son of the count Jean VIII. De Bourbon, comte de Vendôme and his mistress Philippote de Gournay).

Military career

Antoine d'Estrées was in the service of three French kings: Charles IX. , Heinrich III. and Henry IV. He began as a tax collector in Orbec , fought in the siege of Metz by Charles V , in the battle of Saint-Quentin (1557) , in which he was captured, and in the battle of Moncontour (1569), where he commanded the artillery in the absence of his father.

In 1569 he became captain of an army unit of 50 men in Beaulieu-lès-Loches . He was appointed Capitaine général of the artillery as a disease representative for his father-in-law Jean Babou , the successor of his father Jean d'Estrées.

On January 6, 1570 he became Premier Gentilhomme of the minor François-Hercule de Valois, duc d'Alençon , three days later Governor of the Duke's Apanage ( Évreux , Conches-en-Ouche , Breteuil, Passa and Beaumont, the counties of Dreux and Le Perche .). On July 9, 1570, he took the oath in Gaillon as an advisor to the king in his Conseil privé.

In 1576 he was appointed captain and governor of Boulogne and the Boulonnais. In 1578 he received 50,000 livres from the king in recognition of his “great and remarkable service”.

In 1585 Coeuvres was raised to marquisate and he was appointed the first Marquis de Coeuvres. In 1586 he became lieutenant general of Picardy, in 1591 governor of Noyon and La Fère .

In 1592 his daughter Gabrielle became the mistress of Henry IV. From 1593 to 1594, Antoine d'Estrées was then governor of Paris and the Île-de-France . In 1597 he was appointed Grand Master of Artillery of France in Pas-en-Artois .

Gabrielle d'Estrées died in April 1599. Antoine d'Estrées subsequently resigned from his offices. He died ten years later.

Marriage and offspring

Antoine d'Estrées married on February 14, 1559 in Chartres Françoise Babou de La Bourdaisière (* around 1542), daughter of Jean Babou , Seigneur de La Boudaisière , Comte de Sagonne and Grand Master of the Artillery of France, and Françoise Robertet. She was murdered on June 9, 1592 in Issoire in a riot in connection with the clashes of the Holy League , as was her lover, Yves IV. D'Alègre, the city's governor.

Children who Antoine d'Estrées had from Françoise Babou are:

literature

  • Père Anselme , Histoire généalogique et chronologique de la Maison Royale de France , Volume 4, pp. 592ff, Volume 8, pp. 184f

Remarks

  1. ↑ a b c Père Anselme, Volume 4, pp. 592ff
  2. ↑ a b c d e f g Père Anselme, Volume 8, pp. 184f
  3. ^ Père Anselme, Volume 4, p. 599
  4. ↑ Père Anselme, Volume 4, p. 600
personal data
SURNAME d'Estrées, Antoine IV.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French nobleman and military
DATE OF BIRTH around 1529
DATE OF DEATH May 11, 1609