Gaspard de Saulx, seigneur de Tavannes

Gaspard de Saulx on a portrait drawing from the Atelier Clouet, 16th century.

Gaspard de Saulx, seigneur de Tavannes (* 1509 in Dijon , † 1573 at Sully Castle in Sully ) was a French general and marshal of France .

Gaspard de Saulx de Tavannes came to the French court as a page, and then devoted himself to the military career. He distinguished himself in the wars under Franz I and Heinrich II , and proved to be one of the most fanatical leaders of the Catholic party during the Huguenot Wars . After the victories of Jarnac and Moncontour , he became marshal in 1570 and personally inflamed the Paris mob to murder the Protestants on Bartholomew's Night in 1572.

He died in 1573 at Sully Castle near Autun.

His letters to Charles IX. were published in 1857, Lettres diverses von Barthélemy in 1858. His son Jean de Saulx de Tavannes (Lyon 1657) wrote his biography.

His son Guillaume de Saulx de Tavannes (1553-1633), left behind Mémoires historiques , ranging from 1560 to 1596 (Paris 1625).

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Saulx, Jean de, vicomte de Tavannes ([c. 1620]; reprint 1822). Mémoires de très-noble et très-illustre Gaspard de Saulx, seigneur de Tavannes, mareschal de France, admiral des mers de Levant, governor de Provence, conseiller du roy, et capitaine de cent hommes d'armes , reprinted in Collection complèt̀e des méḿoires relatifs à ̀l'histoire de France , printed by M. Petitot. Paris: Foucault. Vols. 23 , 24 , & 25 . OCLC 39499947 .

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SURNAME	Tavannes, Gaspard de Saulx, seigneur de
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	French general and marshal of France
DATE OF BIRTH	1509
PLACE OF BIRTH	Dijon
DATE OF DEATH	1573
Place of death	Sully castle, Sully