Jean VI d'Aumont
Jean VI d'Aumont | |
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Seigneur de Aumont | |
Other titles | Marshal of France |
Born | Châteauroux, Kingdom of France | January 1522
Died | 19 August 1595 Château de Comper, Kingdom of France | (aged 73)
Family | Maison d'Aumont |
Spouse(s) | Antoinette Chabot |
Father | Pierre III d'Aumont |
Mother | Françoise de Sully |
Jean VI d'Aumont (1522-1595) was a soldier and Marshal of France. He served as Marshal under Henri III, campaigning against the Protestants in 1585. He would not however conduct the campaign with much enthusiasm, and after clamour at court he would be replaced by
Early life and family
Aumont was from an old noble family, which is recorded as far back as the thirteenth century.[1]
Reign of Henri III
Campaigning
In 1585 Aumont was granted command of an army by Henri and sent to campaign in
Day of the Barricades
Aumont was among those nobles who in 1588, was less concerned with matters of the
Assassination of the duke of Guise
While staying at
Fighting the ligue
The king was now unable to avoid open war with the ligue. To this end Aumont was tasked to lead in March 1589 with leading the main body of the loyalist army. His forces headed out from Tours to make an attempt to besiege Le Mans. In April his forces found themselves in Angers and were able to hold off a ligue attempt on the town. Shortly thereafter in light of the dire situation in the country Henri made a rapprochement with Navarre and the two allied against the ligue.[9]
With the king's death a short while later, Aumont was among the nobility that recognised
Reign of Henri IV
Aumont campaigned in Burgundy for Navarre in 1591, sweeping all before him in the countryside. He was however unable to make inroads into the ligue bastions of
Sources
- Harding, Robert (1978). Anatomy of a Power Elite: the Provincial Governors in Early Modern France. Yale University Press.
- Knecht, Robert (2016). Hero or Tyrant? Henry III, King of France, 1574-1589. Routledge.
- Knecht, Robert (2010). The French Wars of Religion, 1559-1598. Routledge.
- Morenas, Henri (1934). Grand Armorial de France. Ėditions Heraldique.
- Salmon, J.H.M (1975). Society in Crisis: France during the Sixteenth Century. Metheun & Co.
References
- ^ Morenas 1934, p. 284.
- ^ Knecht 2016, p. 239.
- ^ Knecht 2016, p. 240.
- ^ Salmon 1975, p. 245.
- ^ Knecht 2010, pp. 119–121.
- ^ Knecht 2016, p. 263.
- ^ Knecht 2010, p. 121.
- ^ Knecht 2010, p. 122.
- ^ Knecht 2016, p. 291.
- ^ Salmon 1975, p. 258.
- ^ Knecht 2016, p. 309.
- ^ Salmon 1975, p. 265.
- ^ Harding 1978, p. 223.
- ^ http://angot.lamayenne.fr/notice/T1C01_BIO0105
- ^ Salmon 1975, p. 267.
- ^ Harding 1978, p. 77.
- ^ Salmon 1975, p. 294.