Charles de La Porte

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Charles de la Porte, duc de la Meilleraye, Anonymous, 17th century, Versailles Palace

Charles (II.) De La Porte (* 1602 in Paris ; † February 8, 1664 there ) was a French aristocrat and military. He became Marshal of France in 1639 and, shortly before his death, in 1663, Duc de la Meilleraye and Pair de France . He owed his rise to u. a. the fact that he was a cousin of Cardinal Richelieu .

Life

Charles de La Porte came from the Poitou . He was the son of Charles (I.) de La Porte and Claude de Champlais, was an orphan at an early age and came - like his cousin Armand - Jean de Plessis, who later became Cardinal Richelieu - under the tutelage of his uncle Amador de La Porte , who took care of his upbringing ensured.

Charles de La Porte was appointed Lieutenant General of Brittany in 1632 , was Grand Master of the Artillery of France in 1634 , Lieutenant General des armées du roi in 1635 and was made Marshal of France on June 29, 1639 .

His military successes included the occupation of Hesdin in 1639 (here he was appointed marshal), the siege and submission of Bapaume in 1641, as well as the subsequent submission of Perpignan and Salses-le-Château after a ten-month siege (November 4, 1641 to September 9, 1641) September 1642).

He was Seigneur du Boisliet, de La Lunardière, de La Jobelinière, de Villeneuve; et de la Meilleraye ,.

He became Seigneur de Parthenay (bought in 1641) et de Saint-Maixent , de Sillé-le-Guillaume , de Secondigny , he was also governor of Nantes (city and castle) and Port-Louis (he was commissioned as governor of Port-Louis to make the fortress impregnable, as governor of Nantes he was responsible for Jean-François Paul de Gondi , the Cardinal de Retz, to escape in 1654). In 1648 he was appointed Surintendant des Finances .

Charles de La Porte was made Marquis and in 1663 Duc de La Meilleraye and Pair de France ; the new duchy was formed from Parthenay, Beaulieu and the district of La Gâtine (with the capital Secondigny).

family

In 1630 he married Marie Coiffié de Ruzé d'Effiat, daughter of Antoine Coëffier de Ruzé , Marquis d'Effiat (Richelieu's friend, who became Marshal of France the following year) and sister of Cinq-Mars (who was executed in 1642). From his marriage he had a son, Armand-Charles de La Porte (1632-1713), who was 14 years old as the successor to his father's Grand Master of the Artillery of France and in 1661 married Hortense Mancini , the niece of Cardinal Mazarin .

His wife died on April 22, 1633, four years later (1637) he married Marie de Cossé, * 1621, † May 14, 1710, daughter of François de Cossé, Duc de Brissac. This marriage left no offspring.

From a relationship with Catherine Fleury he had a son, Charles de Montgogué, whom he legitimized in 1653.

literature

  • Père Anselme , Histoire généalogique et chronologique de la maison royale de France ... , Volume 4, 1728, pp. 624f
  • Maria Cavaillès, Arnaud Clairand, Raphaël Supiot, Albéric Verdon (eds.), Les La Meilleraye, destin d'une famille aux XVIIe et XVIIIe siècles , Archives municipales et Musée municipal, Parthenay, 2014, ISBN 978-2-9540203-2- 7th
  • Henri Griffet, Histoire du règne de Louis XIII, roi de France et de Navarre , Volume 3, Paris 1758,
  • Le Mareschal de la Meilleraye , in: Charles Perrault , Les Hommes illustres qui ont paru en France pendant ce siècl e, 1700, Volume 2, pp. 17-18

Remarks

  1. ↑ Griffet, p. 335
  2. ↑ Père Anselme; the last four Seigneurien were already in his grandfather's possession, La Lunardière is a district of Fenioux (Deux-Sèvres)
  3. ↑ La Meilleraye in Beaulieu-sous-Parthenay he inherited from his father
personal data
SURNAME La Porte, Charles de
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Meilleraye, Charles de La Porte de
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Marshal of France, Surintendant des Finances
DATE OF BIRTH 1602
PLACE OF BIRTH Paris
DATE OF DEATH February 8, 1664
Place of death Paris