Montmorency Thore, Guillaume de

The fifth son of the connable of France, Anna de Montmorency and Madeleine of Savoy.

After the death of his elder brother Gabriel de Montmorency at the battle of Dreux, the king transferred Guillaume to command his ordinance company of 50 copies. With this detachment he accompanied Charles IX on a trip to Bayonne in 1565. In 1567 he participated with his father in the Battle of Saint-Denis .

After the death of the constable, he became the lord de Tore in Tonnerua, de Handel, Dangeu, Montberon, Masi, La Prue in Pau and other lands.

In 1570 he participated in the coronation of Elizabeth of Austria , was granted the title of knight of the Order of St. Michael , and in 1572, after the resignation of his brother, Marshal Damville , he became colonel general of the Piedmontese light cavalry.

In 1574, the Montmorency brothers joined the discontented party , grouped around the Duke of Alanson . The elder brother, Marshal Montmorency , was arrested, and Marshal Damville in Languedoc raised a rebellion, which marked the beginning of the Fifth Religious War (1574-1576). Guillaume, along with his brother Charles de Meruy, fled to Switzerland and Germany.

In early October 1575, he crossed the Meuse with two thousand German reitars , 500 French nobles and a large detachment of arquebusiers. According to legend, the Queen Mother Catherine de Medici threatened to send the heads of her older brothers if he invaded the country with foreign mercenaries, to which Senor de Tore angrily replied: “If the Queen does what she said, there will be nothing left in France that could to avoid the traces of my revenge ”( Si la reine fait ce qu'elle dit, il n'a rien en France où je ne laisse des marques de ma vengeance ).

On October 10, the Montmorency squad stumbled upon 10 thousand. the army of Henry de Guise guarding the crossing of the Marne , and was defeated at the Battle of Dormann . In pursuit of the rebels, Guise received a wound in the face, due to which he was nicknamed "Tagged."

Subsequently, Senor de Tore reconciled with King Henry III , commanded his troops to the war against the Huguenots in Languedoc, and in 1583, at the request of the Duke of Anjou, acted as mediator in negotiations with the monarch.

In 1589, he helped his relative, Louis de Montmorency-Butville, bring Senlis to the side of the king and protect the city from the forces of the Catholic League .

1st wife (1561): Leonor d'Yumiere (d. 03/18/1563), the only daughter of Jean d'Iumiere, a knight of the Order of St. Michael, and Sidoni de Marvillier, court lady of Eleanor of Austria , niece of Charlotte d'Yumiere, wife of Francois de Montmorency La Rochepo

2nd wife (4.10.1581): Anna de Lalen (d. 02.1613), daughter of Antoine II de Lalen , Count van Hoogstraten, Knight of the Order of the Golden Fleece , and Eleanor de Montmorency, Ladies van Gorn and de Montigny

Children:

• Madeleine de Montmorency (1582-10.1615), Dame de Montberon, Baroness de Handel, Torah and Dangeu. Husband (06/19/1597): Henri de Luxembourg-Linyi , Duke de Pine-Luxembourg, Prince de Tengry (1582-1616), son of Francois de Luxembourg-Linyi
• Guillaume de Montmorency (1594-1614), seigneur de Toret and Dangeu

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