Henri de Schomberg

Henri de Schomberg (1575–1632), comte de Nanteuil, was a Marshal of France during the reign of Louis XIII.^[1]

Schomberg was born at Paris. Superintendent of Finances from 1619 to 1622. He became Marshal of France in 1625.

In 1628, Schomberg rescued Toiras in the Siege of Saint-Martin-de-Ré with an army of 6,000 men and some cavalry.^[2] Together with Toiras he pursued the retreated English army of the Duke of Buckingham, with great loss being sustained by the latter.^[3]

Henri de Schomberg commanded Royal troops against the Huguenot rebellions, at the Siege of Privas.

In 1632 he defeated Henri II de Montmorency at the battle of Castelnaudary (September 1, 1632). One of his daughters married the prince de Guéméné.

Notes

^ Glozier, p.5
^ Commentaries on the life and reign of Charles the First p.114 [1]
^ Commentaries on the life and reign of Charles the First p.114 [2]

References

Matthew Glozier Marshal Schomberg 1615-1690, "the ablest soldier of his age": international soldiering and the formation of state armies in seventeenth-century Europe Sussex Academic Press, 2005 ISBN 1903900603

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