Pierre de Montesquiou d'Artagnan
Pierre de Montesquiou d'Artagnan , Comte d'Artagnan, (* 1640 ; † August 12, 1725 in Plessis-Picquet ) was a French military man and Marshal of France.
Life
He was the fourth son of Henri I de Montesquiou, Seigneur d'Artagnan, and Jeanne de Gassion, daughter of Jean de Gassion , and cousin of Charles d'Artagnan de Batz-Castelmore , the model of the literary figure of d'Artagnan by Alexandre Dumas .
Pierre de Montesquiou was sent to the school of the Oratorians (Académie Royale de Juilly) in 1655 and in 1660 was a page with Cardinal Mazarin and in 1664 a royal page. He was a musketeer in the Régiment des Gardes françaises for twenty-three years . In 1667 he fought in the Netherlands against the Bishop of Munster and in 1668 he took part in the sieges of Douai , Tournai , Lille and Besançon under Louis II. De Bourbon, prince de Condé . In 1672 he took part in the attempted conquest of the Netherlands by Louis XIV and fought in the battle of Seneffe in 1674 . From 1678 he commanded a company, was appointed Brigadier des armées du roi in 1688 , Maréchal de camp in 1691 and Lieutenant-General in 1696 . In the Palatinate War of Succession he took part in the Battle of Fleurus in 1690 , in 1692 in the Battle of Steenkerke , the Siege of Namur and in 1693 in the Battle of Neerwinden . The king made him governor of Arras and lieutenant-général des Artois in 1693 and gave him a regiment of infantry. In 1698 he left the Régiment des Gardes françaises and received accommodation from the King in the Palace of Versailles, as well as various pensions, which enabled him to acquire the Palace of Plessis-Picquet in 1699. At court he was on good terms with Madame de Maintenon and the Duke and Duchess of Maine. He fought in Flanders in the War of the Spanish Succession , conquered Diest in 1705 , fought in the Battle of Ramillies (1706), in the Battle of Oudenaarde (1708) and commanded the attack on the Red Fort during the siege of Ghent (1708), which made him the Appointment as lord of Pont-à-Marcq. In 1709 he captured the Warneton fortress , taking 800 prisoners. His prominent role in the Battle of Malplaquet , in which he was wounded and three horses under him were killed, played a major role in an orderly retreat; as a result, on September 15, 1709 he was appointed Marshal of France . Originally he wanted to call himself Marshal of Montesquiou (the name he had inherited from his father), but that failed because of resistance from Condé, who did not want the name of the murderer of his grandfather Louis I de Bourbon, prince de Condé was honored. He was known at court as Marshal d'Artagnan. When he got into financial difficulties due to necessary renovations at the castle in 1709, the king paid the debts after intervention by Madame de Maintenon. In 1712 he fought under Marshal Villars in the battle of Denain, which was victorious for the French .
From 1716 to 1720 he was involved as a commander in Brittany in the suppression of an uprising ( Pontcallec conspiracy ). In October 1720 he became a commander in Languedoc , Provence and the Cevennes.
In 1700, as a (childless) widower, he married Élisabeth l'Hermite d'Hieville, who was over thirty years his junior. Nicolas de Largillière's wedding pictures exist in the Museum of Arras. In 1701 the son Louis de Montesquiou was born, who died in 1717 as a colonel of the infantry. One daughter died as a child. He died in his castle. His grave in the village church disappeared during the French Revolution. The castle fell to the nephew Paul d'Artagnan and remained in the family's possession until 1755.
literature
- Pierre de Montesquiou, Le vrai d'Artagnan ..., Ed. Lacour-Ollé 2002
- E. Chouteau, Le Maréchal de Montesquiou et sa femme Elisabeth l'Hermite d'Hiéville, Le Puy-en-Velay, 1935
- René Pottier, Histoire d'un village, le Plessis-Robinson. Nouvelles éditions Latines, 1941, reprinted 1996
- Alain Valtat, Histoire du Plessis-Robinson, Impr. Marianne, 1972.
- Jacques Ledeux, Le Plessis-Robinson, neuf siècles au fil de l'Histoire, Boulogne éd. TerraMare, 2009
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| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Montesquiou d'Artagnan, Pierre de |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French Marshal |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1640 |
| DATE OF DEATH | August 12, 1725 |
| Place of death | Plessis-Picquet |