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See also:BONNIVET, See also:GUILLAUME See also:GOUFFIER, SEIGNEUR DE (c. 1488—1525) , See also:French soldier, was the younger See also:brother of Artus Gouffier, seigneur de Boisy, See also:tutor of See also:Francis I. of See also:France. Bonnivet was brought up with Francis, and after the See also:young See also:- KING
- KING (O. Eng. cyning, abbreviated into cyng, cing; cf. O. H. G. chun- kuning, chun- kunig, M.H.G. kiinic, kiinec, kiinc, Mod. Ger. Konig, O. Norse konungr, kongr, Swed. konung, kung)
- KING [OF OCKHAM], PETER KING, 1ST BARON (1669-1734)
- KING, CHARLES WILLIAM (1818-1888)
- KING, CLARENCE (1842–1901)
- KING, EDWARD (1612–1637)
- KING, EDWARD (1829–1910)
- KING, HENRY (1591-1669)
- KING, RUFUS (1755–1827)
- KING, THOMAS (1730–1805)
- KING, WILLIAM (1650-1729)
- KING, WILLIAM (1663–1712)
king's See also:accession he became one of the most powerful of the royal favourites. In 1515 he was made See also:admiral of France. In the imperial See also:election of 1519 he superintended the candidature of Francis, and spent vast sums of See also:money in his efforts to secure the votes of the See also:electors, but without success. He was the implacable enemy of the See also:- CONSTABLE (0. Fr. connestable, Fr. connetable, Med. Lat. comestabilis, conestabilis, constabularius, from the Lat. comes stabuli, count of the stable)
- CONSTABLE, ARCHIBALD (1774-1827)
- CONSTABLE, HENRY (1562-1613)
- CONSTABLE, JOHN (1776-1837)
- CONSTABLE, SIR MARMADUKE (c. 1455-1518)
constable de See also:Bourbon and contributed to his downfall. In command of the See also:army of See also:Navarre in 1521, he occupied See also:Fuenterrabia and was probably responsible for its non-restoration and for the consequent renewal of hostilities. He succeeded See also:Marshal See also:Lautrec in 1523 in the command of the army of See also:Italy and entered the Milanese, but was defeated and forced to effect a disastrous See also:retreat, in which the See also:chevalier See also:Bayard perished. He was one of the See also:principal commanders of the army which Francis led into Italy at the end of 1524, and died at the See also:battle of See also:Pavia on the 24th of See also:February 1525. See also:Bran-thine says that it was at Bonnivet's See also:suggestion that the battle
of Pavia was fought, and that, seeing the disaster he had caused, he courted and found See also:death heroically in the fight. In spite of his failures as a See also:general and diplomatist, his handsome See also:face and brilliant wit enabled him to retain throughout his See also:life the intimacy and confidence of his king. He was a See also:man of licentious life.
According to Brant8me he was the successful See also:rival of the king for the favours of Madame de Chhteaubriand, and if we may believe him to have been—as is very probable—the See also:hero of the See also:fourth See also:story of the Heptameron, See also:Marguerite d'See also:Angouleme had occasion to resist his importunities.
End of Article: BONNIVET, GUILLAUME GOUFFIER, SEIGNEUR DE (c. 1488—1525)
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