Henri de La Ferté-Senneterre
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Henri II, Duc de La Ferté-Senneterre (* 1599 in France ; † September 27, 1681 ibid) was a French nobleman and officer, Maréchal-duc de La Ferté Maréchal de France since 1651 and Governor of Lorraine , Peer of France and porter des Ordre du Saint-Esprit .
biography
He came from the noble family de Saint-Nectaire (different spelling "Senétère"), which was based in the Auvergne . His father, Henri I er de La Ferté-Senneterre was ambassador to England and Rome, as well as the Ministre d'État . He was the grandson of Maréchal Claude de La Châtre de La Maisonfort . Intended for military service, he fought for the first time under Moritz von Nassau , the leader of the Protestant Dutch against the ruling Spain there.
Back in France, the young officer was ordered to siege the Calvinist rebel town of La Rochelle . The siege, under the command of Armand Jean du Plessis de Richelieu, lasted from 1627 to 1628. During this time, La Ferté became Capitaine in a regiment that his father had set up.
In 1632 the French troops invaded Lorraine and La Ferté found himself with the army outside Nancy in 1633 . On September 25, they moved into the town of 16,000 inhabitants, which the Lorraine commander, the Marquis de Mouis, had previously left with the garrison.
Promoted to the Mestre de camp , he fought successfully with the same army on June 29, 1639 at Hesdin against the Spaniards and was rewarded by King Louis XIII. promoted to maréchal de camp . On May 19, 1643, the day the king died, he fought against the Spaniards in the Battle of Rocroi , where he commanded the French left wing and was wounded four times. His father was a good friend of the mother of the new king and regent of France, Anna of Austria , possibly because of this he was appointed governor of Lorraine in 1643. The force, which he could have 1644, consisted of 23 companies line infantry and a company of Swiss , which in the old town of Nancy in garrison were, as well as seven other companies line infantry in the new town. There was also an unknown number of riders. In 1648 he was appointed lieutenant général and on January 5, 1651 promoted to Maréchal de France . In that year he established an infantry regiment, of which he was the owner and which therefore bore the name "Régiment de La Ferté-Senneterre". This regiment existed as 51 e régiment d 'infanterie until its dissolution in 1984. During the uprising of the fronde des princes (1650-1652) , a civil war that divided France between 1648 and 1652, he stood by Anne d'Autriche and Jules Mazarin .
In the battle of Valenciennes in 1656 he was captured by the Spaniards and had to be ransomed by King Louis XIV.
Although La Ferté was known for punishing minor offenses such as petty theft among his soldiers with the utmost severity, he himself lived on his lands without paying any attention to right or wrong.
As a reward for his services, the Marquisat de La Ferté-Senneterre was raised to the status of Pairie de France by Louis XIV in November 1665 .
The marshal died on September 27, 1681
family
His first marriage was Charlotte de Bauves, daughter of Henri des Boves, Baron de Contenant, Maréchal de camp and Councilor of State , and Philippe de Châteaubriand .
In his second marriage on April 25, 1655, he married the widowed Madeleine d'Angennes, dame de La Loupe, daughter of Charles d'Angennes, seigneur de La Loupe, baron d'Ambreville, and Marie du Raynier. Madeleine already had a child from Charles-Paris d'Orléans , Duc de Longueville
Children:
- Henri-François (January 23, 1657 † August 1, 1703), duc de La Ferté-Senneterre, Lieutenant-général and Pair de France ;
- Louis (June 2, 1659 † May 7, 1732), seigneur de La Loupe, Jesuit priest;
- Catherine Henriette (March 1662 †?), Married to François de Bullion, marquis de Longchesnes;
- Hannibal Jules (August 6, 1665 † 1702), Abbé of Saint-Jean-d'Angély , Knight of the Order of Malta ;
- Cécile Adélaïde (October 2, 1673 † January 14, 1720), married to Louis César, marquis de Rabodanges.
literature
- Manuel Bazaille: 1643. Le retour d'Attila. In: La Revue Lorraine Populaire. No. 180, October 2004, ISSN 0338-1978 .
Footnotes
- ↑ also Henri II de Saint-Nectaire called
- ↑ There are three different ways of writing the name
- ^ Encyclopédie des gens du monde. Volume 16. Treuttel et Würtz, Paris 1842, p. 53 .
- ↑ drowned in the Rhine during the siege of Philippsburg (1688)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | La Ferté-Senneterre, Henri de |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French nobleman and officer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1599 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | France |
| DATE OF DEATH | September 27, 1681 |
| Place of death | France |