Jean Baptiste Budes de Guébriant

Jean Baptiste Budes de Guébriant by Balthasar Moncornet , ca.1642 .

Jean Baptiste Budes von Guébriant (* 1602 in Plessis-Budes , †  November 24, 1643 in Rottweil in the Dominican monastery ) was a marshal of France .

Guébriant came from an old noble family of Brittany and fought in the Thirty Years War from 1635 under Duke Bernhard von Weimar in Germany. After his death, Guébriant concluded a contract with the Weimar officers on October 9, 1639 , by which the duke's troops came under French command. In June 1641 he helped defeat the imperial troops at Wolfenbüttel and at the end of the year led his army to the Lower Rhine .

After his elevation to Marshal, he defeated the imperial general Lamboy near Kempen in January 1642 and in autumn came to the aid of the Swedes who had got into trouble under Torstenson near Leipzig . At the beginning of 1643 he fought in Württemberg , but was pushed across the Rhine . Cardinal Mazarin gave the motto: "Rottweil is the gateway to Swabia". In an effort to expand the war to Bavaria , he besieged Rottweil twice , initially unsuccessfully in July. The second siege took place in November, when Guébriant was shattered by a bullet in his right elbow and his arm had to be removed. On the sixth day of the sieges, the French shot a breach at the Mehlsack, the tower on the southwest corner of the Rottweiler city fortifications. The intimidated Bavarian commander in Rottweil surrendered the city to the enemy on November 19, 1643, despite violent objections from the council and the citizens, and the French moved in. The wounded Guébriant had Rottenmünster bring him to the Dominican monastery. His wound had gangrene . On November 24th, Guébriant died in the Dominican monastery. In the winter battle of Tuttlingen on November 24, 1643, the imperial troops under Mercy defeated the French so that they had to retreat across the Rhine. After a few days of occupation, Rottweil was liberated again. The French under Reinhold von Rosen buried the entrails of the dead marshal in the choir of the Dominican Church and took the body of Guébriants to France, where he was buried in the Notre-Dame Cathedral in Paris, so the saying came about:

Since Marshal Guébriant's heart is hot and d´Kuttla z'Rottweil glaze. (Marshal Guébriant left his heart and bowels in Rottweil.)

The wounded General Georg Christoph von Taupadel was also in Rottweil at the same time .

literature

• Le Patrimoine des Communes des Côtes-d'Armor. Volume 2. Flohic, Charenton-le-Pont 1998, ISBN 2-84234-030-2 , p. 749.