Louis II. De La Trémoille

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Portrait of Louis II. De La Trémoille, Domenico Ghirlandaio or one of his pupils in the Musée Condé, Chantilly
Coat of arms of Louis II. De La Trémoille

Louis II. De La Trémoille , also written La Trémouille , (born September 20, 1460 in Bommiers (Indre), † February 24, 1525 near Pavia ) was a member of the House of La Trémoille, a French general and grandson of Georges' de La Trémoille , the favorite of King Charles VII.

Private life

Louis was the eldest son of Louis I. de La Trémoille (1431-1483) and Marguerite d'Amboise. He inherited his father as Seigneur de La Trémoille, Vicomte de Thouars , Prince de Talmond, Comte de Guînes et de Bénon , Baron de Sully , de Craon, de Montagu, de Mauléon et de l'Ile-Bouchard, Seigneur des Iles de Ré , de Rochefort and de Marans. He also held the office of Prime Minister Chambellan du Roi . On July 28, 1484, he married Gabrielle de Bourbon, daughter of Louis' de Bourbon , with whom he had a son Charles a year later. Louis survived Charles, who fell at Marignano in 1515 . Gabrielle also died on November 30, 1516. He then married Louise de Valentinois, daughter of Cesare Borgia, who was forty years his junior .

The general

La Trémoille commanded the army of Charles VIII in Guerre folle 1488 against the Duke of Brittany in the victorious battle of St. Aubin . In 1496 he won the breakthrough of the French through Lombardy near Fornovo . Louis XII. appointed him again in 1500 as commander in chief in Italy, as which he took Milan . In 1503, however, he fought unhappily in Naples against Gonzalo Fernández de Córdoba y Aguilar . He later participated in the battles of Novara (1513) and Marignano (1515). He also took part in the campaigns against the English in Picardy .

Louis II. De La Trémoille was killed by Spanish arquebusiers in the Battle of Pavia on February 24, 1525 . His grandson François de La Trémoille followed him as Viscount of Thouars .

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personal data
SURNAME La Trémoille, Louis II. De
ALTERNATIVE NAMES La Trémouille, Louis II. De
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French general and vice-count of Thouars
DATE OF BIRTH September 20, 1460
PLACE OF BIRTH Thouars
DATE OF DEATH February 24, 1525
Place of death at Pavia