Claude de Bourdeille

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Claude de Bourdeille, comte de Montrésor (* 1606 , † 1663 ) was a French nobleman who emerged in the intrigues of the first half of the 17th century. He is also known as a recruiter.

Life

The Count of Montrésor was the great-nephew of the writer Pierre de Bourdeille, seigneur de Brantôme . In 1635 he became one of the favorites of Jean-Baptiste Gaston de Bourbon, duc d'Orléans , the younger brother of King Louis XIII. Bourdeille, Orléans and Louis de Bourbon-Condé, comte de Soissons jointly prepared the attack on Richelieu , which failed in 1636 in the camp at Amiens .

Claude de Bourdeille then retired to his estates for six years, but in 1642 he joined the Cinq Mars Conspiracy, which was also directed against Richelieu. Their failure forced him to flee to England.

Richelieu's death in the same year allowed him to return, but his participation in the likewise failed Cabale des Importants (led by François de Vendôme and the Duchesse de Chevreuse ), which was now directed against Jules Mazarin , led to another exile, this time in the Netherlands.

Returning to France one more time, he again joined the Duchesse of the Chevreuse and now the Cardinal von Retz and thus the Fronde , which this time brought him imprisonment first in the Bastille and then in the Vincennes Castle . In 1653 he submitted to Mazarin and then withdrew from the public.

literature

  • Montrésor, Claude de Bourdeille, Comte de . In: Encyclopædia Britannica . 11th edition. tape 18 : Medal - Mumps . London 1911, p. 792 (English, full text [ Wikisource ]).
  • Mémoires du Comte de Montrésor . In: Jean Joseph François Poujoulat, Joseph Fr. Michaud: Nouvelle collection des mémoires pour servir à l'histoire de France, depuis le XIIIe siècle jusqu'à la fin du XVIIIe; précédés de notices pour caractériser chaque auteur des mémoires et son époque; suivi de l'analyse des documents historiques qui s'y rapportent . 1838, books.google.com
  • Mémoires du Comte de Montrésor . In: Jean Joseph François Poujoulat, Joseph Fr. Michaud: Nouvelle collection des mémoires pour servir à l'histoire de France, depuis le XIIIe siècle jusqu'à la fin du XVIIIe; précédés de notices pour caractériser chaque auteur des mémoires et son époque; suivi de l'analyse des documents historiques qui s'y rapportent . 1851, books.google.com