Jean-Baptiste de La Baume-Montrevel

Jean-Baptiste de La Baume-Montrevel (* 1593 in Pesmes ; † December 22, 1641 in Gray ) was a Burgundian nobleman and soldier in the Spanish service during the Thirty Years War and in particular during the years 1634 to 1644, in which this war the Devastated Free County of Burgundy .

Life

Jean-Baptiste de La Baume-Montrevel was the youngest son of Antoine de La Baume, 8th Comte de Montrevel, and Nicole de Montmartin, and the one among his siblings who was designated for the clergy. He became prior of Marboz , but resigned and switched to a military career.

With the death of his brother Philibert de La Baume-Montrevel in 1613, who left no sons, he became the 4th Marquis de Saint-Martin-le-Châtel, Baron de Pesmes et de Bourguignon; he was also Seigneur de Saint-Romain, Baron de Montmartin et de Vaudrey .

In his military career he became governor of Dole in 1630 . In 1634 he was captain of the guard of Cardinal Infante Ferdinand of Spain († 1641). On March 20, 1637 he was appointed governor of the Free County of Burgundy and later that year (as successor to Gérard de Joux de Watteville, Marquis de Conflans) commander in chief of the troops of the Free County of Burgundy. He retained the strategy of his predecessor and distributed the last troops, which had not fallen in the defeat of Cornod (March 13, 1637), to the main cities of the Free County. He also kept Jean Girardot de Nozeroy as head of the armies, who will stand by him as a negotiator until the end. He negotiated regularly with the Duchy of Lorraine and the Empire about the dispatch of new reinforcements, some of which he also received. In 1638 he was under the command of Charles of Lorraine , who brought together all the troops of the Free County (Burgundy, Spanish, Lorraine and German), and then fought in the victory of Poligny (June 19, 1638), which, however, had a break in cooperation with his Allies represented: La Baume wanted to pursue the French in their retreat and thus use the victory, while Charles of Lorraine preferred to withdraw to Salins, whereby he suffered a defeat in another battle at Poligny six days later. Until 1639 he visited the various cities of the free county to strengthen and fortify them. He supported guerrilla initiatives that were particularly successful in the Upper Jura.

In January 1640 he traveled to the Spanish Netherlands for his wedding after the papal dispensation had been granted on May 5, 1639. He married Princess Lambertine von Ligne (* June 23, 1593 - February 14, 1651), daughter of Lamoral 1st Prince of Ligne and Anne Marie de Melun, by marriage contract, which was signed in Spontin Castle on February 7, 1640 , the widow of his brother Philibert and of Christoph von Ostfriesland († 1636)

On his return he found that the Parliament and some regions of the Free County of Burgundy - Baume-les-Dames , Clerval and Montbéliard - no longer supported him and refused to billet his soldiers. But also in the Bailliage d'Aval (today the Jura), where the population no longer tolerated the presence of Colonel de Saix's soldiers. He does not give in and thus came into conflict with the parliament. Despite a series of victories in the Bresse by d'Arnans, his authority was increasingly called into question, especially since Cardinal Infante Ferdinand of Austria, his protector, died on November 9, 1641. He himself died shortly afterwards, on December 22nd, 1641, of the plague in Gray , his brief marriage remained without descendants. Claude de Bauffremont, Baron de Scey, who had already been appointed governor by the parliament in 1640, but Madrid did not approve, now succeeded him as governor of the Free County of Burgundy and commander in chief of the troops of the Free County.

literature

• Detlev Schwennicke , European Family Tables , Volume 15, 1993, Plate 54
• Gérard Louis, La guerre de Dix Ans, 1634-1644 , Presses Universitaires de Franche-Comté, 1998, ISBN 978-2-251-60651-4 ,
• François Pernot, La Franche-Comté espagnole: à travers les archives de Simancas, une autre histoire des Franc-Comtois et de leurs relations avec l'Espagne de 1493 à 1678 , Presses Universitaires de Franche-Comté, 2003, ISBN 978-2- 84867-032-4

Remarks

1. ↑ He is to be distinguished from Ernst Christoph von Ostfriesland , Count von Rietberg († 1640), the imperial general sergeant who was married to Philibert's daughter
2. ↑ Louis
3. ↑ Louis
4. ↑ Schwennicke
5. ^ Pernot