Antoine d'Amboise

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Coat of arms of the d'Amboise family

Antoine d'Amboise, sieur de Neuilly d'Amboise (* 1605 , † December 2, 1650 in Paris ), was the son of François d'Amboise , maître des requêtes of King Henri IV , and grandson of Jean d'Amboise , chamberlain and personal physician to the king.

Military career

In 1625 he joined the "Régiment de Plessy-Joigny", which then became the Régiment de Touraine . In July 1627 he commanded a company during the siege of La Rochelle .

In 1629 he was appointed "Lieutenant de l'artillerie de France" and Governor of the Arsenal .

In 1635 he was involved as Mestre de camp à la suite des Régiment de Touraine under Henri II. De Rohan in the campaign in the Valtellina .

Clos Lucé Castle in Amboise

Between 1637 and 1643 he took part in various campaigns and particularly drew attention to himself in the battle near Cencio, the siege of Chivasso , Evrée, Tortosa and in the battle near Salces - in which he was wounded.

In July 1639 he took over command of the regiment after the previous Mestre de camp lieutenant, Isaac Frézeau, marquis de La Frézelière, had fallen before Hesdin .

In front of the Trino Fortress , he was able to distinguish himself again and was mentioned with the words The Mestre de camp d'Amboise stood out for its strength and for the verve it was able to give the world .

On August 24th he was by King Ludwig XIII. promoted to maréchal de camp (valid from August 30, 1643) and appointed governor of the citadel of Trino. On August 1, 1648 he was wounded again in the battle near Vercelli .

In 1649 d'Amboise returned to France with his regiment and was used to fight the Fronde . After his death in December of the following year, command of the regiment was passed on to his three-year-old son, Charles-Jules de Neuilly d'Amboise , as Mestre de camp en second .

family

On October 20, 1632, he married Anne de la Hillière, daughter of Jean de la Hillière, governor of Amboise and of Amboise Castle . Her maternal grandmother was Antoinette de Montmorency, her paternal grandfather Michel de Gast, favorite of King Henri III.

Courtyard of the Hôtel Scipion

In Paris he acquired the "Hôtel Scipion", which had been built by the financier and banker Scipion Sardini.

Shortly after his wedding, he swapped the Hôtel Scipion for the Clos-Lucé country estate in Amboise.

On August 14, 1647, his son and only descendant Charles-Jules d'Amboise was born. His godmother was Christina of France , he became a protégé of Cardinal Mazarin .

Antoine de Neuilly d'Amboise died on December 2, 1650 in Paris.

literature

  • Jean-Baptiste-Pierre Jullien de Courcelles : Dictionnaire historique et biographique des généraux français, depuis le onzième siècle jusqu'en 1820. Volume 1. De Courcelles / Arthus Bertrand, Paris 1820 ( full text in the Google book search; see also references) .
  • M. Pinard: Chronologie historique-militaire. Volume 6. Claude Hérissant, Paris 1763, p. 179 f. ( Digitized on Gallica ; see also Bibliography).
  • L'histoire du 43 e regiment d'infanterie. 1890, p. 14 f.
  • Gazette de France. November 28, 1639, August 16, 1641, September 19 and October 9, 1643, etc.
  • Gérard Troupeau: Neuillé-le-Lierre. Une paroisse tourangelle de l'ancien régime. Éditions CLD, Tours 2005, ISBN 2-85443-479-X .
  • Private archive of the d'Amboise family (Livre rouge) .

Footnotes

  1. ^ A title, not a military rank
  2. ↑ Since the regiment was directly under the crown, the king was automatically the regiment owner and de jure mestre de camp. The de facto commander could therefore only be Mestre de camp lieutenant. The Mestre de camp à la suite was the deputy regimental commander.
  3. ↑ The actual power of command was also handled here by a mestre de camp à la suite.
  4. ↑ Has been listed as a classé monument historique since 1899.
personal data
SURNAME d'Amboise, Antoine
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French military, Maréchal de camp des Ancien Régime
DATE OF BIRTH 1605
DATE OF DEATH December 2, 1650
Place of death Paris