Hercule de Charnacé

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Hercule Girard Baron de Charnacé (born September 3, 1588 in Champigné , † 1637 in Breda , United Netherlands ) was a French diplomat during the Thirty Years War . He was instrumental in the Treaty of Altmark (1629) and signed the Treaty of Bärwalde (1631) as a representative of France . In 1633 he was the French ambassador to the Netherlands. In 1631 he was sent to the Bavarian court of Elector Maximilian I as Richelieu's special envoy .

During the siege of Breda (1637), Hercule de Charnacé was killed in action.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ www.ieg-mainz.de - 1629 IX 25 Armistice of Altmark ( Memento of the original from July 19, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.ieg-mainz.de
  2. ↑ Jörg-Peter Findeisen: The Thirty Years War , Styria, 1998, p. 182.
  3. ^ Samuel Freiherr von Pufendorf, Detlef Döring: Small lectures and writings , Vittorio Klostermann, 1995, p. 360.
  4. Jump up ↑ Jakob Christoph Iselin : Newly augmented historical and geographical general lexicon , Volume 1, 1726, p. 878.
personal data
SURNAME Charnacé, Hercule de
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Charnacé, Hercule Baron de; Charnacé, Hercule Girard de
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French diplomat during the Thirty Years War
DATE OF BIRTH September 3, 1588
PLACE OF BIRTH Champigné
DATE OF DEATH 1637
Place of death Breda , United Netherlands