François de Roncherolles

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François de Roncherolles (* probably 1551; † May 17, 1589 at Senlis ) was a French nobleman and military. He was Seigneur de Mainneville et de Longchamp, and Governor of Paris as a representative of the Catholic League .

biography

François de Roncherolles is the second son of Philippe de Rocherolles († 1570), Seigneur de Roncherolles, Baron de Heuqueville et Pont-Saint-Pierre etc., and Suzanne de Guisencourt, his first wife.

He was Seigneur de Mainneville, Vieuville et de Longchamp, Chevalier de l'Ordre du Roi (i.e. the Ordre de Saint-Michel ), Gentilhomme ordinaire de la Chambre du Roi, Lieutenant de la Compagnie d'ordonnance du Comte de Soissons , and Governor de Soissons et du Soissonnois.

His zeal in supporting Catholicism, to which his family was inviolably bound, drew him into the Catholic League. In 1589 he became governor of Paris. In addition, on May 17, 1590 he was in command of the Catholic army under the Duke of Aumale at the Battle of Senlis . In this battle he continued to fight, although the other commanders and most of the army had fled, until he was overwhelmed and killed by the overwhelming force of the attackers. He was buried in Paris in the Chapelle d'Orléans of the Celestine Convent , the necropolis of the House of Orléans .

Marriage and offspring

He married Hélène d'O, daughter of Charles II. D'O, Seigneur de Baillet-en-France , de Franconville etc., and Madeleine de l'Hôpital de Vitry. They had a son, Pierre de Roncherolles, Seigneur, Châtelain et Haut-justicier de Mainneville, Longchamp, du Mesnil-sous-Vienne , de Villers, etc. (* probably 1579, † October 3, 1658 at the age of 79); Pierre married on January 17, 1603 Marie Sublet († January 22, 1639), daughter of Michel Sublet, Seigneur d'Heudicourt, general manager and contrôleur général des finances, and Marie Boulier.

Hélène d'O († October 14, 1613) married René I du Bec, Marquis de Vardes, Chevalier des Ordres du Roi (i.e. in particular the Ordre du Saint-Esprit ), governor of La Capelle , on January 20, 1591 and the Thiérache .

literature

Web link

  • Étienne Pattou, Maison de Roncherolles , p. 7 ( online , accessed April 18, 2020)

Remarks

  1. ^ Jean-Pierre Babelon, Nouvelle Histoire de Paris - Paris au XVIe siècle , 1986, p. 527; Moréri (1759) describes him as Lieutenant-General for the Duke of Mayenne in the Governorate of Paris and the Île-de-France
  2. ↑ They are the parents of (1) René II. Du Bec, Marquis de Vardes, who married Jacqueline de Bueil , the former mistress of King Henry IV , and (2) Renée du Bec, known as la Maréchale de Guébriant as the wife of Jean Baptiste Budes de Guébriant , Marshal of France
personal data
SURNAME Roncherolles, François de
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French nobleman, governor of Paris
DATE OF BIRTH uncertain: 1551
DATE OF DEATH May 17, 1589
Place of death at Senlis