A Gallant of Lorraine; vol. 1 of 2: François, Seigneur de Bassompierre, Marquis d'Haronel, Maréchal de France, 1579-1646Williams, H. Noel (Hugh Noel)
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A Gallant of Lorraine; vol. 1 of 2: François, Seigneur de Bassompierre, Marquis d'Haronel, Maréchal de France, 1579-1646
Williams, H. Noel (Hugh Noel)
Bassompierre, François de, 1579-1646; France -- Court and courtiers; France -- History -- Bourbons, 1589-1789
“The King went to visit M. de Nerestang, who, seeing how severely he
had been wounded, was not doing badly, and would have been cured if
they had left him in the hands of the surgeon Lion. But the other
executioners of surgeons importuned the King so much, when he was at
Brissac, that seven days after he was wounded, when he was going on
well, they took him out of Lion’s hands to place him in those of the
King’s surgeons; and he only lived two days longer.”
[134] Créquy was colonel of the French Guards, and in this action was
in command of a brigade.
[135] The property of the Catholic Church in Béarn and Lower Navarre
had been confiscated by Jeanne d’Albret in 1569, and applied to the
maintenance of pastors of the Reformed faith and works of public
utility.
[136] Jacques Nomper de Caumont (1558-1652). He greatly distinguished
himself in the Thirty Years’ War, and was made a marshal of France and
subsequently duke and peer.
[137] This son, who received the names of Louis Charles and to whom
Louis XIII stood godfather, became the second Duc de Luynes, and
enjoyed some celebrity in the latter part of the seventeenth century
through his connection with Port-Royal. He translated into French the
_Méditations_ of Descartes, wrote under a _nom de guerre_ several
books of devotion, and was the father of the pious Duc de Chevreuse,
the friend of Fénelon.
[138] Don Diego Zapata.
[139] Doña Maria Sidonia, second wife of the count.
[140] Don Pedro Acunha y Tellez-Giron, third Duke of Ossuña
(1579-1624). He had been Viceroy of Naples, and one of the three
chiefs of the conspiracy against Venice which was to have delivered
the city into the power of Spain on Ascension Day, 1618. Suspected
of having aspired to make himself King of Naples, he was recalled in
1620. He died in prison in 1624.
[141] The late King, Henri IV.
[142] Enrico de Avila y Guzman.
[143] Antonio de Toledo, fifth duke of Alba, grandson of the
celebrated Duke of Alba.
[144] Rodriguez de Mendoza, second son of Diego de Mendoza, Count of
Saldagna. He became sixth Duke del Infantado by his marriage with Anna
de Mendoza, Duchess del Infantado, daughter of his elder brother.
[145] The office of mayor-domo mayor was equivalent to that of Grand
Master of the King’s Household in France.
[146] A convent of the barefooted Carmelites in the centre of the town.
[147] He was a Dominican monk and filled the office of Grand
Inquisitor.
[148] Philip III’s eldest son, afterwards Philip IV. Born on April 8,
1605, he had not yet completed his sixteenth year.
[149] The King’s second son; born September 14, 1607; died in 1632.
[150] Fernando, Cardinal Archbishop of Toledo, third son of Philip
III; born May 17, 1609; died in 1641.
[151] The new Queen, Élisabeth of France.
[152] A convent of Hieronymite monks, situated a little way from
Madrid.
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