John Gaspar Ferdinand de Marchin, Comte de Granville
John Gaspar Ferdinand de Marchin, or Marsin, Comte de Granville (1601–1673) was a Walloon military commander from the Spanish Netherlands.
Life
At the age of thirteen Marchin was enlisted in the regiment of the
Louis II de Bourbon, Prince de Condé
.
By 1647, he was lieutenant general and in command of the Army in
Louis XIV. He was imprisoned in Perpignan for 13 months. When the peace was signed on 30 July 1653, Marchin, like Condé, refused the amnesty and went to Spain where Philip IV
appointed him company commander in his army.
In 1658
Knight of the Garter
.
He participated in the disastrous campaign in the
John of Austria (1663–1664). He also led the Spanish troops against the French in the north of France, where he was defeated in 1667 by François de Créquy
.
Marchin then retired to his estate at
Modave Castle
, where he spent his entire fortune on its restoration, which took 15 years.
Family
Marchin married Marie de Balzac d'Entragues, daughter of the Marquis de Clermont, counsellor to the King of France.
They had two children :
- Battle of Turin.
- Agnes de Marsin, died young.