Manassès de Pas
Manassès de Pas, Marquis de Feuquières (born June 1, 1590 in Saumur , † March 13, 1640 near Thionville ) was a French general under King Louis XIII. and Cardinal Richelieu's special envoy .
Life
The nobleman came from an old Artois family, known since the time of the Crusades , which got its name from the town of Pas in what is now the Pas-de-Calais department . She ruled Feuquières . Manassès entered military service at the age of 13, became Maréchal de camp (Major General) in 1625 , took part in eight campaigns as such from 1629 and rose to Lieutenant General in 1637.
He was captured by Huguenots during the siege of La Rochelle in 1628 . His ideas contributed a lot to the handover of the place. After that he was deployed in the south of France. Military tasks followed in Lorraine . He was entrusted with the establishment of a French garrison in Moyenvic .
In 1632 he went to Germany as Richelieu's envoy, was involved in discussions with Wallenstein , among other things , and kept in touch with the Protestant courts and the Heilbronner Bund . During these years, France encouraged the continued armed conflict between the princes and the Habsburg emperor. Feuquières negotiated a closer alliance between Sweden and France , which led to the Treaty of Paris (1634) .
In 1636 the Marquis became governor of the city and province of Verdun . He commanded the French units that operated together with the army of Duke Bernhard von Sachsen-Weimar . In 1637, 1638 and 1639 he took part in campaigns against the imperial mercenaries together with the duke, who was supported by France. In 1639 he besieged Diedenhofen in Lorraine . Feuquières offered stubborn resistance to the imperial general Octavio Piccolomini , who was approaching with superior strength , but was captured here after the lost battle on June 7, 1639 and died of his injuries sustained in battle on March 13, 1640.
The Marquis wrote Mémoires sur ses Négociations en Allemagne , which appeared in Paris in 1753 in 3 volumes.
His son Isaac de Pas, Marquis de Feuquières , represented French interests as ambassador in Stockholm and Madrid.
literature
- Manassès de Pas de Feuquières: Lettres et négociations du Marquis de Feuquières, ambassadeur extraordinaire du roi en Allemagne, en 1633 & 1634 .
- Feuquières . In: Nils Linder, John Rosén, Theodor Westrin, BF Olsson (eds.): Nordisk familjebok konversationslexikon och realencyklopedi . 1st edition. tape 4 : Duplicator Folkvandringen . Gernandts boktryckeri, Stockholm 1881, Sp. 1195 (Swedish, runeberg.org ).
- Feuquières . In: Theodor Westrin (Ed.): Nordisk familjebok konversationslexikon och realencyklopedi . 2nd Edition. tape 8 : Feiss-Fruktmögel . Nordisk familjeboks förlag, Stockholm 1908, Sp. 1196 (Swedish, runeberg.org ).
Web links
- Feuquières . Who was who in the Thirty Years War
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Pas, Manassès de |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Feuquières, Manassès de Pas Marquis de |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French general and envoy |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 1, 1590 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Saumur |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 13, 1640 |
| Place of death | at Thionville |