Regiment de Conti (1649)

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Regiment d'Annevoux
Regiment de Conti

Rég de Conti 1649.png

Regimental flag
active 1622 to 1698
Country Blason France modern.svg France
Armed forces Blason France modern.svg french army
Armed forces army
Branch of service infantry
Type regiment
Patron saint Saint-Maurice d'Agaune

The Régiment de Conti was a royal French infantry regiment in the 17th century.

Lineup and significant changes

  • March 3, 1622: Established as Régiment d'Annevoux
  • February 14, 1623: Retired
  • April 29, 1625: Re-establishment of the Régiment d'Annevoux
  • May 1625: Retired
  • October 26, 1629: re-establishment of the Régiment d'Annevoux
  • June 4, 1649: Renamed the Régiment de Conti
  • January 20, 1650: released
  • February 26, 1651: Re-establishment of the Regiment de Conti
  • September 13, 1651: released
  • March 11, 1654: re-establishment of the Regiment de Conti
  • June 1685: Reduction, eight companies were incorporated into the Régiment de Picardie and eight companies into the Régiment de Piémont .
  • 1698: After the regiment owner, the prince de Conti , became King of Poland, the regiment was disbanded.

Flags

The regiment carried three flags, including a white body flag.

Mestres de camp / Colonels

Mestre de camp was from 1569 to 1661 and from 1730 to 1780 the denomination of rank for the regiment holder and / or for the officer in charge of the regiment. The name "Colonel" was used from 1721 to 1730, from 1791 to 1793 and from 1803 onwards.

Should the Mestre de camp / Colonel be a person of the high nobility who had no interest in leading the regiment, the command was given to the “Mestre de camp lieutenant” (or “Mestre de camp en second”) or the Leave a colonel lieutenant or colonel en second.

Regimental owner, at the same time commander
Regimental owner without taking command
Regimental commanders on behalf of the regiment owner
Mestres de camp lieutenants
  • 4th June 1649: Chevalier de La Rochefoucauld
  • ? Louis de Bourgogne, seigneur de Mautour en Brie
  • April 4, 1657 to February 20, 1660: Jacques de Rangueil
  • ? Marquis d'Arcy
Colonels lieutenants
  • February 2, 1662: Robert Edme Léonard de Razès, marquis de Monismes
  • August 1, 1671: Pons Jean-Baptiste de Salignac, marquis de Fénelon
  • May 3, 1675: Louis de Lenet, marquis de Larray
  • December 1680: Achilles Carloman Philogène Brulart, chevalier de Sillery

Calls

Thirty Years War (until 1648) and Wars of Religion

War of the Fronde (1648 to 1653) and Franco-Spanish War (1635 to 1659)

  • 1649: On November 18, the prince de Conti sided with Parliament and against the reign of Queen Mother Anna of Austria .
  • May 5, 1652: Participation in the Battle of Étampes
  • 1654: Relocation to Catalonia under the command of Mestre de camp-lieutenant Louis de Bourgogne de Mautour. Participation in the sieges of Villefranche , Puigcerdà and Roses .

War of Devolution (1667 to 1668)

War for Crete

Dutch War (1672 to 1678)

War of the Palatinate Succession (1688 to 1697)

  • 1688 to 1696: in the army on the Rhine

literature

  • Pinard: Chronique historique-militaire. Volumes 1, 4, 6 and 8. Claude Hérissant, Paris 1760, 1761, 1763 and 1778.

Web links

Footnotes

  1. Cinquième abrégé général du militaire de France, sur terre et sur mer. Lemau de la Jaisse, Paris 1739