Isaac de Portau

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Portrait of Porthos on a coin

Isaac de Portau , called Porthos , (born February 2, 1617 in Pau , † after 1643) was a musketeer in the Compagnie du Roi (King's Company - 1st Company) of the Mousquetaires de la garde of King Louis XIII.

He inspired Gatien de Courtilz de Sandras and then Alexandre Dumas to his fictional character "Porthos" in his novel " The Three Musketeers ".

Life

He came from a Protestant family from Audaux in Béarn ( Pyrénées-Atlantiques ). His father was a secretary to the King and the Government of Lower Navarre (Basse-Navarre). As an important personality, he acquired a rule and was raised to the lower nobility.

Like Athos , he entered the army and was able to get a job in the company of François de Guillon , seigneur des Essarts in the Régiment des Gardes françaises . Essarts was the brother-in-law of Monsieur de Tréville , who was a captain-lieutenant in the regiment of the royal musketeers and who was later able to get Porthos and d'Artagnan a job here.

From 1640 he took part in the campaigns of the year in the company of d'Artagnan. In 1642 he returned to Perpignan and was then to be found in Lyon . In 1643 he left the Musketeers. He is mentioned one last time as the ammunition supervisor of the Navarrenx fortress (Pyrénées Atlantiques).

Afterwards his track is lost, nobody knows anything about the circumstances or the time of his death.

(The 13th July 1712 is variously given as the day of death and the church of St. Martin in Pau as the burial place . However, the former has not been proven and nothing of the kind is mentioned in the church history of St. Martin.)

Footnotes

  1. ↑ de facto therefore the representative of the king who was the captain

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personal data
SURNAME Portau, Isaac de
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Porthos
BRIEF DESCRIPTION musketeer
DATE OF BIRTH February 2, 1617
PLACE OF BIRTH Pau
DATE OF DEATH after 1643