Regiment de Conti (1649)
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
- March 3, 1622: Adrien du Drac, baron d'Annevoux, Maréchal de camp
- Regimental owner without taking command
- June 4, 1649: Armand de Bourbon, prince de Conti
- February 21, 1666: Louis Armand I de Bourbon, prince de Conti
- 1685: François-Louis de Bourbon-Conti , comte de La Marche, then comte de Clermont, then prince de La Roche-sur-Yon, then prince de Conti, maréchal de camp, lieutenant-général des armées du Roi
- 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
- 1622: Siege of Montpellier
- 1629: Used in Champagne
- 1631: Deployment in Catalonia with the capture of Vic and Moyenvic
- 1636: Siege of Dole (May 28 to August 15)
- 1637: Fighting at Ivoy ( Wallonia ) and at Damvillers
- Garrison in Damvillers
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)
- 1667: Deployment in Flanders
- 1668: Used in Franche-Comté
War for Crete
- 1669: In defense of Candie
Dutch War (1672 to 1678)
- 1672: fighting in Holland
- August 11, 1674: Battle of Seneffe . The Mestre de camp en second, Pons Jean-Baptiste de Salignac, marquis de Fénelon, was fatally wounded here.
- 1676: Fighting at Condé , Bouchain , Aire
- 1677: Battle of Cassel , fighting at Valenciennes , siege of Saint-Omer
- 1678 to 1679: With the army on the Rhine
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
- Général Susane: Chronologie historique des corps de troupes à pied ( Memento of September 21, 2013 in the Internet Archive ). Librairie militaire de J. Dumaine, Paris 1976 (see 499. Annevoux , p. 45; excerpt from Histoire de l'infanterie française ; PDF; 4 kB)
Footnotes
- ↑ Cinquième abrégé général du militaire de France, sur terre et sur mer. Lemau de la Jaisse, Paris 1739