Armand Nompar de Caumont

Armand de Caumont, duc de La Force

Coat of arms of the Duc de La Force

Armand Nompar de Caumont , marquis , then 2nd duc de La Force, comte de Mussidan , baron de Castelnau and other lands (* around 1580 - † December 16, 1675 at his castle La Force in Périgord ), was a Maréchal de France .

Life

Armand de Caumont was the eldest son of Jacques Nompar de Caumont , one of the military leaders of the Huguenots , 1st Duc de La Force and Maréchal de France under Louis XIII and the grandson of Armand de Gontaut-Biron , Maréchal de France under Henri III. His mother was Charlotte de Gontaut-Biron (1561-1635).

Around 1600 he married Jeanne de La Rochefaton, dame de Saveilles (Département Charente). The couple had two children: Jacques, without descendants, who died in 1661, and Charlotte, wife of Henri de La Tour d'Auvergne, vicomte de Turenne , who also died childless.

On December 26, 1610 he was promoted to lieutenant captain of the Garde du corps du roi by Louis XIII.

On March 19, 1625, he was promoted to Maréchal de camp . During the war in Italy he managed to capture Saluzzo , Villafranca and Pancale. In Lorraine he fought against the troops of the German Empire and was able to win the battle of Raon .

Between 1632 and 1637 he was maître de la garde-robe du roi , an office he had taken over from the disgraced Henri de Talleyrand-Périgord .

He took part in the siege of Corbie and the battle of Fontarrabie .

After the death of his father in 1652 he inherited the Duché-pairie de La Force and was given the marshal's baton on August 29 of the same year.

Since he died without male descendants, the branch of the family in Périgord died out with his death. His titles went to his next brother, Henri Nompar de Caumont.

literature

Jacques-Nompar de Caumont, duc de La Force: Mémoires authentiques de Jacques Nompar de Caumont, duc de La Force, maréchal de France, et de ses deux fils, les marquis de Montpouillan et de Castelnaut. Charpentier, Paris 1843 ( digitized on Gallica ).
Histoire de Caumont. Les Derniers Seigneurs de Caumont. In: Généalogie en Aquitaine, Alain et Marie F. Boucherès.
La Force (Armand de Caumont, duc de). In: Grand Dictionnaire Universel du XIXe siècle. Erik Laforce's website.

Footnotes and individual references

^ Général Louis Susane: La Maison du roi compagnies des Gardes du corps. In: La Maison du roi. Histoire de la cavalerie française. J. Hetzel, Paris 1874, on Ancestramil .
^ William Duckett: Dictionnaire de la conversation et de la lecture. Volume 12. Firmin Didot frères, fils, Paris 1868, p. 52 ( digitized on Gallica ).
↑ Anselme de Sainte-Marie: Histoire généalogique et chronologique de la maison royale de France. Volume 8. Compagnie des Libraires Associez, Paris 1733, p. 576 ( full text in the Google book search).

Web links

Seigneurs de Caumont-La Force. In: Racines et histoire (PDF; 310 kB).

personal data
SURNAME	Nompar de Caumont, Armand
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Maréchal de France
DATE OF BIRTH	around 1580
DATE OF DEATH	December 16, 1675
Place of death	La Force (Dordogne)

[1] Général Louis Susane: La Maison du roi compagnies des Gardes du corps. In: La Maison du roi. Histoire de la cavalerie française. J. Hetzel, Paris 1874, on Ancestramil .

[2] William Duckett: Dictionnaire de la conversation et de la lecture. Volume 12. Firmin Didot frères, fils, Paris 1868, p. 52 ( digitized on Gallica ).

[3] Anselme de Sainte-Marie: Histoire généalogique et chronologique de la maison royale de France. Volume 8. Compagnie des Libraires Associez, Paris 1733, p. 576 ( full text in the Google book search).