[260] Philibert de Nérestan, knight of Malta, and captain of the bodyguard of Henri IV, was as celebrated for his admirable qualities of mind and heart as for the antiquity of his birth. He was grand master of the Orders of St. Lazarus and Notre-Dame du Mont Carmel, the latter of which was instituted by the sovereign at his intercession. [261] Matthieu, _Hist, des Derniers Troubles_, book ii. p. 438. Péréfixe, vol. ii. pp. 406, 407. [262] L'Etoile, vol. iii. p. 242. [263] _Mémoires,_ vol. v. p. 185. [264] L'Etoile, vol. iii. p. 243. [265] Charlotte, eldest daughter of Henri, Duc de Montmorency, High Constable of France. [266] L'Etoile, vol. iii. pp. 247-249. [267] Jean Defunctis, Lieutenant criminal of the Provost of Paris.--_Hist. Chron. de la Chancell. de France_, p. 316. [268] Wraxall, Note quoted from _Le Laboureur sur Castelnau_, vol. v. p. 356. [269] Pedro Henriques Azevedo, Condé de Fuentes, succeeded to the command of the Spanish army on the demise of the Archduke Ernest. [270] Ambroise Spinola, Marques de los Balbazez, one of the most distinguished generals of the seventeenth century, was the descendant of an illustrious family of Geneva, whose branches spread alike over Italy and Spain. He was born in 1569, and first bore arms in Flanders. In 1604, being in command of the army, he took Ostend, and in consequence of his important services was appointed General of the Spanish troops in the Low Countries. When opposed to Prince Maurice of Nassau, he counterbalanced alike his renown and his success; and in 1629, when serving in Piedmont, he took the town of Casal, but died in the following year of vexation at having failed to reduce the fortress of that city.