François de Bonne de Créquy

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François de Bonne de Créquy (* around 1599; † January 1, 1677 in Grenoble , 77 years old) was a French nobleman and military. He was born as François de Blanchefort de Créquy , the name and coat of arms were changed in connection with his marriage to Catherine de Bonne (1619). It is to be distinguished from Marshal François de Créquy (1629–1687), his nephew.

Life

François de Blanchefort de Créquy is the son of Charles I de Créquy , Prince de Poix, 2nd Duc de Lesdiguières, Pair de France and Marshal of France , and Madeleine de Bonne, daughter of François de Bonne, duc de Lesdiguières , Pair de France, the last connétable in France , from his marriage to Claudine Bérenger. He was Comte de Canaples , then Comte de Sault , Seigneur d'Agoult, de Vesc, de Montlaur, et de Montauban, and from March 17, 1638 3rd Duc de Lesdiguières, Pair de France.

On May 31, 1605, his father, who had been Colonel of the Régiment de Créquy until then , took over the command of the Régiment des Gardes françaises and left François, then Comte de Canaples, the infantry regiment, which he took over on April 24, 1610. From 1611 François was referred to as Comte de Sault and the regiment as Régiment de Sault. François de Blanchefort remained chief of the regiment until his son François-Emmanuel de Bonne de Créquy took it over on November 10, 1665. During this time, the regiment took the Mantuan War of Succession and the French-Spanish war in part

On May 14, 1633 François de Bonne de Créquy was accepted into the Order of the Holy Spirit . At the death of his father on March 17, 1638 he was Lieutenant-général , on July 3, 1642 Governor of the Dauphiné . He held this office for 34 years.

Construction activity

He continued the expansion of the fortifications of Grenoble and gave the part his name, the construction of which began in 1639, but had to be stopped in 1640 due to lack of money. The work on the Enceinte Créqui was continued from 1670 to 1675 and completed with the construction of the Porte Créqui.

After the two heavy Isère floods of November 14th and 30th, 1651, he had the damaged bridges rebuilt, today's Passerelle Saint-Laurent and today's Pont Marius-Gontaud , which his grandfather started as a stone bridge in 1621 and completed in 1671 . In 1675 he began the Drac sewer system within Grenoble, which was completed in 1686 (now called Canal Jourdan).

Altarpiece in the chapel of the Sainte-Marie-d'en-Haut monastery ( Monument historique )

He and his wife donated the reredos in the chapel of the Sainte-Marie d'en-Haut monastery in Grenoble, which was carved by Nicolas Chapuis in 1662. François de Bonne de Créquy also designed the grand staircase in the Cour d'Honneur of Vizille Castle , built by the architect and mathematician Girard Desargues in 1653 .

marriage and family

François de Bonne de Créquy married by marriage contract on February 10, 1619 with papal dispensation Catherine de Bonne (* around 1605), the third daughter of the Connétable de Lesdiguières from his marriage to Marie Vignon, his mother's half-sister and thus his aunt; the marriage remained childless, she died in 1621. On December 3, 1632 he married Anne de La Madelaine (* around 1610, † July 2, 1656 in Paris), Marquise de Ragny, only daughter of Léonor de, in Charlus near Nevers La Madelaine and Hippolyte de Gondi. Your children are:

  • François-Emmanuel de Bonne de Créquy (December 1645 - May 3, 1685 in Saint-Germain-en-Laye ), 4th Duc de Lesdiguières, Pair de France, Comte de Sault, Governor of the Dauphiné (November 13, 1661 en survivance , in office in 1677); ∞ May 12, 1675 Paule-Marguerite Françoise de Gondi (March 12, 1655 - January 21, 1716), 1676 4th Marquise de La Garnache and Duchesse de Retz, Comtesse de Joigny , Baronne de Mortagne, only daughter of Pierre de Gondi , Duc de Retz, Pair de France, Comte de Joigny, and Françoise de Gondi, Duchesse de Retz
  • Charles-Nicolas de Créquy († November 28, 1674 on a campaign in Germany), Marquis de Ragny, colonel of cavalry, 1670 Lieutenant-général du Dauphiné

literature

  • Père Anselme , Histoire généalogique et chronologique ... , 3rd edition, Volume 4, 1728, p. 292

Web links

  • Étienne Pattou, Seigneurs de Créquy , p. 15 and p. 30 ( online , accessed June 8, 2020)

Remarks

  1. ↑ The spelling Créqui is only since the Revolution usual
  2. ↑ The regiment was in 1763 in de Flandre Régiment and 1791 in 19e régiment d'infantry renamed
  3. ↑ See the article on the regiment
  4. ↑ La Chapelle Baroque on Musée.Isère ( online , accessed June 8, 2020)
  5. ↑ Les Créqui et les Villeroy on Musée.Isère ( online , accessed June 8, 2020)
  6. ↑ Pattou; Père Anselme: when he died he was 36 years and 4 months old, d. H. he should have been born in December 1648
personal data
SURNAME Créquy, François de Bonne de
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Comte de Canaples, Comte de Sault, Duc de Lesdiguières
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French nobleman and military man, governor of the Dauphiné
DATE OF BIRTH uncertain: 1599
DATE OF DEATH January 1, 1677
Place of death Grenoble