François de La Grange d'Arquian

François II. De La Grange d'Arquian , called le maréchal de Montigny (* around 1554, † September 9, 1617 ), Seigneur de Montigny et de Séry , Baron des Aix en Berry , was a French military man, Marshal of France and Lieutenant -général pour Paris et l' Île-de-France .

biography

François de La Grange is the son of Charles de La Grange and Louise de Rochechouart, his younger brother is Lieutenant Colonel Antoine de La Grange d'Arquien . He grew up in the vicinity of King Henry III. and became at the court Gentilhomme ordinaire de la chambre du roi de France, Capitaine de cent Gentilshommes de sa Maison et des gardes de la porte , Premier Maître d'hôtel .

He was promoted to Mestre de camp and General of the Cavalerie légère , and to Governor of Berry , of Blois , Dunois , Vendôme , Gien , and of the Trois-Évêchés (Metz, Toul and Verdun). On December 7, 1595 he was accepted into the Ordre du Saint-Esprit .

François de La Grange fought - like his brother Antoine - during the wars of religion on the royalist side against both the Huguenots and the Catholic League . At the Battle of Coutras (1587) he commanded the Gendarmerie de France , was captured by the King of Navarre , but released again.

Under Henry IV he lifted the siege of Aubigny in 1591, in 1592 he fought in the siege of Rouen , then in the battle of Aumale, and in 1595 in the battle of Fontaine-Française . In 1597 he commanded the Cavalerie légère during the siege of Amiens . On June 2, 1600 he was appointed Lieutenant-général pour Paris et l'Île-de-France , that is, deputy to the governor, who was Henry IV himself at the time.

Louis XIII made him Marshal of France on September 14, 1615. François de La Grange d'Arquian died two years later, on September 9, 1617, at the age of 63. He was buried in a chapel in Bourges Cathedral.

marriage and family

François de La Grange d'Arquian married on August 1, 1582 in Fontainebleau Gabrielle de Crévant († May 6, 1643), daughter of Claude de Crévant, Seigneur de Beauvais en Touraine, and Marguerite de Hallewyn. The couple had three children:

• Aimé de La Grange (* probably 1587 - † July 1, 1590, 3 years old)
• Henri-Antoine de La Grange d'Argquien, Seigneur de Montigny, Governor of Verdun; ⚭ October 11, 1621 Marie Le Cirier, Dame de Neufchelles, daughter of Louis Le Cirier, Seigneur de Neufchelles, and Marie d'Aubray
• Jacqueline de La Grange d'Arquian († August 8, 1632 in Saint-Aignan); ⚭ May 4, 1604 Honorat de Beauvilliers, Comte de Saint-Aignan (* May 26, 1579; † after February 22, 1622) ( House of Beauvilliers )

literature

• Louis Moréri , Le grand dictionnaire historique , Volume 4, chez Brunel, 1740, pp. 185f

Web links

• Étienne Pattou: Familles de La Grange et de La Grange-Trianon , p. 2 ( accessed online on April 15, 2020)