Roger II de Saint-Lary

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Roger II. De Saint-Lary (born December 10, 1562 - † July 13, 1646 in Paris ) was a favorite of Kings Henry III. and Henry IV of France. He was Duc de Bellegarde , Marquis de Versoy, Seigneur de Baron de Termes, Pair de France .

biography

He was the son of Jean de Saint-Lary († 1586), Seigneur de Termes et de Montastruc, Governor of Metz , and Anne de Villemur († 1586), thus the nephew of Roger I de Saint-Lary . His cousin Jean Louis de Nogaret de La Valette (the son of his aunt Jeanne de Saint-Lary) introduced him to the French court. In 1586 he inherited his father's property, in 1587 he became Seigneur et Baron de Bellegarde through the death of his cousin César de Saint-Lary .

He was one of the Catholics Heinrich IV. After the death of Heinrich III. 1589 followed. He supported him during the Huguenot Wars and was showered with honors by him - but who also took away his mistress: In November 1590 - while the siege of Paris dragged on - Roger de Saint-Lary had to introduce his mistress Gabrielle d'Estrées to the king , both traveled to Coeuvres , where Gabrielle lived. Shortly afterwards she was the king's mistress.

On May 12, 1592 he became governor of Quillebeuf , in 1595 he became governor of Burgundy and Bresse, on December 7, 1595 he was Chevalier des Ordres du Roi .

Henry IV appointed him Grand Stable Master of France in 1605 . He gave up this office in 1611 in favor of his brother César-Auguste de Saint-Lary. He became surintendant de la Maison et Premier Gentilhomme de la Chambre de Gaston de France (* 1608). Louis XIII appointed him Duke of Bellegarde and Peer of France in September 1619 , making Saint-Lary's estate in Seurre (Burgundy) a duchy under the name Bellegarde. When his brother died in 1621, Roger de Saint-Lary took over the office of master stable again.

In the very difficult years of 1629 and 1630, when Maria de 'Medici and the Duke of Orléans allegedly allied against Cardinal Richelieu , there were rumors that Bellegarde was carrying her agreements with her in a precious necklace. After the Journée des dupes (November 11, 1630), when Gaston failed in an attempt to raise an army against the king, the Duke of Bellegarde let him move through the province he administered to Lorraine and then tried to hunt people against the in Burgundy Collect king. When the king found out about this, he moved to Burgundy with an army. Bellegarde fled after the king Dijon conquered and the Parlement was forced to issue an edict against Gaston's followers (15 October 1631). The office of governor of Burgundy was entrusted to Henri II. De Bourbon, prince de Condé . The following year, after Richelieu's victory, Roger de Saint-Lary was pardoned and was able to return to France.

The Duke of Bellegarde died in 1646 at the age of 83 without legitimate descendants, his body was buried in the Jesuit church in Dijon , his heart in the Jesuit church of Paris on rue Saint-Antoine (today St-Paul-St-Louis ).

Marriage, liaisons and offspring

In 1596 he married Anne de Bueil († 1631), daughter of Honorat de Bueil, Seigneur de Fontaines and Chevalier des Ordres du Roi, and Anne de Bueil, thus maternal granddaughter of Louis IV. De Bueil , Count of Sancerre ( House Bueil ); the marriage remained childless.

From a liaison with an unknown woman, he had an illegitimate son, Pierre de Bellegarde, dit le Chevalier de Montbrun , Seigneur de Souscarrière at Grosbois en Brie, who was legitimized in April 1628.

It is also known that in addition to Gabrielle d'Estrées, he also counted Louise Marguerite de Lorraine, princesse de Conti among his mistresses.

literature

  • Père Anselme , Histoire généalogique de la maison royale de la France et des grands officiers de la couronne , Volume 4, 1728, pp. 306-307
  • François-Alexandre Aubert de La Chenaye-Desbois , Dictionnaire de la Noblesse , Volume 18, 1873, Column 118f
  • Mlle de Guise , Les amours du Grand Alcandre , Volume 1, 1786
  • Dictionnaire de biography française , 1932–2005
  • Alanson Lloyd Moote, Louis XIII, the Just , University of California Press, 1989

Remarks

  1. ↑ Père Anselme, Aubert; when specifying “10. January 1563 ”in the Dictionnaire de biographie française it concerns a calculation error, since Père Anselme states that he died on July 13, 1646 at the age of 83 years, 7 months and 3 days
  2. ↑ in detail in Les Amours du Grand Alcandre Volume 1, 1786, pp. 12ff
  3. ↑ Moote, Chapter 10
  4. ↑ Moote, Chapter 11
  5. ↑ See also: Gédéon Tallemant des Réaux , Les Historiettes de Tallemant des Réaux , Volume 4, 1834, pp. 186ff
  6. ↑ Les Amours du Grand Alcandre Volume 1, 1786, p. 4, p. 12ff
personal data
SURNAME Saint-Lary, Roger II. De
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Duc de Bellegarde
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French nobleman, grand stable master of France
DATE OF BIRTH December 10, 1562
DATE OF DEATH July 13, 1646
Place of death Paris