Charles I. de Blanchefort, marquis de Créquy

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Charles I. de Blanchefort, marquis de Créquy (print, location: Musée de la Révolution française )

Charles I. de Blanchefort, marquis de Créquy (also Créqui ), Prince of Poix, Knight of Blanchefort, Créquy, Fressin and Canaples, from 1626 Duke of Lesdiguières and Peer of France, Marquis of Vizille and Treffort, Count of Sault, Baron of Vienne-le-Chastel and La Tour-d'Aigues (* 1578 , † March 17, 1638 near Crema ) was a French military leader, Marshal of France and officer in one of the French guards .

Life

Charles was the son of Antoine de Blanchefort. He fought for the first time before Laon in 1594, was wounded at the siege of Saint-Jean-d'Angély in 1621 and was appointed Marshal in the same year.

In the Piedmontese campaign in support of Savoy in 1624 he was the deputy of the Connétable François de Bonne, duc de Lesdiguières , whose daughter he married Madeleine in 1595. After her death, his father-in-law made him marry Madeleine's half-sister Françoise. Furthermore, he inherited his goods and titles.

Charles was governor-general of the Dauphiné , became ambassador to Rome in 1633 and in Venice in 1636 . He fought in the Italian campaigns of 1630, 1635, 1636 and 1637. He fell at the siege of Crema in 1638.

Charles had a long-standing argument with Philip, the bastard of Savoy, which ended in 1599 with his killing him in a duel. In 1620 he defended the duc de Saint-Aignan , who was his prisoner of war, against persecution by Louis XIII.

Some of his letters are preserved in the National Library in Paris. His life was described by Nicolas Chorier (Grenoble 1683).

His eldest son François de Bonne de Créquy , duc de Lesdiguires (1600–1677), governor general and governor of the Dauphiné , took over the Bonne's name and coat of arms. The younger, Charles II. De Créquy , fell at the siege of Chambry in 1630. He left three sons: Charles III. de Blancheforrt , duc de Créquy, Alphonse de Créquy , comte de Canaples (1628–1711), who became the sixth and last Duke of Lesdiguières in 1703 after the older branch of the family had expired, and François de Créquy , marquis de Marines, Marshal of France .

See also Blanchefort House

personal data
SURNAME Charles I. de Blanchefort, marquis de Créquy
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Créquy de Blanchefort, Charles de
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French military leader; Marshal of France
DATE OF BIRTH 1578
DATE OF DEATH March 17, 1638
Place of death at Crema