Régiment de Poly Cavalerie

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Régiment de Poly Cavalerie

Poly Saint Th cavalerie rev.png

Regimental standard
active 1667 to 1761
Country Grand Royal Coat of Arms of France & Navarre.svg France
Armed forces Royal Standard of the King of France, svg French armed forces
Branch of service cavalry
Type Heavy cavalry regiment
Strength 6 escadrons
Location Marney
Patron saint Maurice d'Agaune
motto Nec terrent, nec morantur
commander
commander Last: François Gaspard de Poly-Saint-Thiébaut, comte de Poly

The Régiment de Poly cavalerie was a regiment of heavy cavalry in the Kingdom of France . Erected on the occasion of the War of Devolution , it was dissolved again with the increasing decline in French participation in the Seven Years' War .

Lineup and name changes

  • July 8, 1667: Formation as Régiment de Tilladet cavalerie
  • 1679: Renamed the Régiment de Souvré cavalerie
  • April 5, 1700: Renamed the Régiment de Beringhen cavalerie
  • March 15, 1718: Renamed the Régiment de Conti cavalerie
  • June 1, 1727: Renamed the Régiment du Chayla cavalerie
  • March 10, 1734: Renamed the Régiment d'Ancezune cavalerie
  • February 21, 1740: Renamed the Régiment du Rumain cavalerie
  • January 31, 1749: Renamed the Régiment de Poly cavalerie
  • December 1, 1761: Dissolution and incorporation into the Régiment d'Escouloubre cavalerie

Furnishing

Standard

The regiment carried six standards of yellow silk. The royal sun was depicted on the front, framed with ornaments, both in gold embroidery. Above it is the tape with King Louis XIV's motto : NEC PLURIBUS IMPAR .

On the back was a square with bevelled corners depicting a soaring eagle. Above it is the currency ribbon with the inscription Nec terrent, nec morantur . It was all embroidered in silver. It is unclear whether the surrounding fringes were made of gold or silver, there are contradicting information.

  • Régiment de Poly cavalerie, obverse

  • Régiment de Poly cavalerie, back

Uniforms

  • 1740 to 1757

  • 1757 to 1761

Mestres de camp-lieutenants, colonels-lieutenants and colonels

Mestre de camp was from 1569 to 1790 the rank designation for the regiment holder and / or the actual commander of a cavalry regiment. Should the mestre de camp be a person of the high nobility who had no interest in leading the regiment (such as the king or queen), the command was given to the “mestre de camp lieutenant” (or "Mestre de camp en second").

  • July 8, 1667: Jean-Baptiste de Cassagnet, marquis de Tilladet
  • 1679: Louis-Nicolas Le Tellier de Souvré, marquis de Souvré
  • April 5, 1700: Jacques Louis, comte de Beringhen
  • March 15, 1718: Louis Armand de Bourbon
  • June 1, 1727: Nicholas Joseph Balthazar de Langlade, vicomte du Chayla
  • March 10, 1734: Joseph André d'Ancezune d'Ormaison de Caderousse, marquis d'Ancezune
  • February 21, 1740: Charles Yves le Vicomte, chevalier, then comte du Rumain
  • January 31, 1749: François Gaspard de Poly-Saint-Thiébaut, comte de Poly

Home Garrison

Wars in which the regiment participated

Skirmish near Rhadern

literature

  • Pierre Lemau de la Jaisse: Cinquième abrégé de la carte générale du militaire de France, sur terre et sur mer. Depuis Novembre 1737 jusqu'en Décembre 1738. Gandouin et al., Paris 1739, OCLC 458013263 .
  • M. Pinard: Chronologie historique-militaire. Volume 4 ( digitized on Gallica ), 5 ( digitized ) and 7 ( digitized ). Claude Hérissant, Paris 1761, 1762 and 1764.

Footnotes

  1. ↑ Pierre Lemau de la Jaisse: Cinquième abrégé de la carte générale du militaire de France, sur terre et sur mer. Depuis Novembre 1737 jusqu'en Décembre 1738. Gandouin et al., Paris 1739, OCLC 458013263 .
  2. ↑ XXVII. You Rumain. In: François-Alexandre Aubert de La Chenaye-Desbois , Jacob Baron von Eggers: Dictionnaire militaire ou recueil alphabétique de tous les termes propres à la guerre etc. Volume 2. George Conrad Walther, Dresden 1751, Sp. 88 f. ( Full text in the Internet Archive ).

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