Regiment de Toustain cavalerie

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Regiment de Toustain cavalerie

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Regimental standard
active 1665 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 Saarlouis
Patron saint Maurice d'Agaune
motto Nec terrent, nec morantur
commander
commander Last: Marquis de Toustain de Viray

The Régiment de Toustain cavalerie was a heavy cavalry regiment 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

  • December 7, 1665: Formation as Régiment de Montauban cavalerie
  • 1670: Renamed the Régiment de Beringhen cavalerie
  • 1676: Renamed the Régiment de Livry cavalerie
  • February 22, 1689: Renamed the Régiment de Clermont cavalerie
  • 1702: Renamed the Régiment de Bartillat cavalerie
  • 1706: Renamed the Régiment de Lenoncourt cavalerie
  • 1735: Renamed the Régiment d'Heudicourt cavalerie
  • 1748: Renamed the Régiment de Lenoncourt cavalerie
  • 1758: Renamed the Régiment de Toustain cavalerie
  • 1761: Dissolution and incorporation into the Régiment Royal-Lorraine cavalerie

Furnishing

Standard

The regiment carried four standards of green 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 (at least temporarily) the coat of arms of the Counts of Heudicourt with their motto Si fractus illabitur orbis . Embroidery and fringes were done in gold.

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”).

  • December 7, 1665: René de La Tour du Pin, comte de Montauban
  • 1670: Chevalier de Beringhen
  • 1676: Comte de Livry
  • February 22, 1689: Georges Henri de Clermont d'Amboise, marquis de Clermont Saint-Aignan
  • 1702: Comte de Bartillat
  • 1706: Marquis de Lenoncourt
  • 1735: Comte d'Heudicourt
  • 1748: Marquis de Lenoncourt
  • 1758: Marquis de Toustain de Viray

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. ↑ XLVII. Lenoncourt. 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. 96 f. ( Full text in the Internet Archive ).

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