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See also:LUXEMBURG, See also:FRANCOIS See also:HENRI DE MONTMORENCYBOUTEVILLE, See also:DUKE of (1628-1695), See also:marshal of See also:France, the comrade and successor of the See also:great See also:Conde, was See also:born at See also:Paris on the 8th of See also:January 1628. His See also:father, the See also:comte de See also:Montmorency-Bouteville, had been executed six months before his See also:birth for killing the See also:marquis de Beuvron in a See also:duel, but his aunt, See also:Charlotte de Montmorency, princess of Conde, took See also:charge of him and educated him with her son, the duc d'See also:Enghien. The See also:young Montmorency (or Bouteville as he was then called) attached himself to his See also:cousin, and shared his successes and reverses throughout the troubles of the See also:Fronde. He returned to France in 1659 and was pardoned, and Conde, then much attached to the duchesse de See also:Chatillon, Montmorency's See also:sister, contrived the See also:marriage of his adherent and cousin to the greatest heiress in France, Madeleine de Luxemburg-Piney, princesse de Tingry and heiress of the Luxemburg dukedom (1661), after which he was created duc de Luxembourg and peer of France. At the opening of the See also:War of See also:Devolution (1667-68), Conde, and consequently Luxemburg, had no command, but during the second See also:campaign he served as Conde's See also:lieutenant-See also:general in the See also:conquest of Franche Comte. During the four years of See also:peace which followed Luxemburg cultivated the faYour of See also:Louvois, and in 1672 held a high command against the Dutch. He defeated the See also:prince of See also:Orange at Woerden and ravaged See also:- HOLLAND
- HOLLAND, CHARLES (1733–1769)
- HOLLAND, COUNTY AND PROVINCE OF
- HOLLAND, HENRY FOX, 1ST BARON (1705–1774)
- HOLLAND, HENRY RICH, 1ST EARL OF (1S9o-,649)
- HOLLAND, HENRY RICHARD VASSALL FOX, 3RD
- HOLLAND, JOSIAH GILBERT (1819-1881)
- HOLLAND, PHILEMON (1552-1637)
- HOLLAND, RICHARD, or RICHARD DE HOLANDE (fl. 1450)
- HOLLAND, SIR HENRY, BART
Holland, and in 1673 made his famous See also:retreat from See also:Utrecht to Maestricht with only 20,000 men in See also:face of 70,000, an exploit which placed him in the first See also:rank of generals. In 1674 he was made See also:captain of the gardes du See also:corps, and in 1675 marshal of France. In r676 he was placed at the See also:head of the See also:army of the See also:Rhine, but failed to keep the duke of See also:Lorraine out of Philipsburg; in 1677 he stormed See also:Valenciennes; and in 1678 he defeated the prince of Orange, who attacked him at St See also:Denis after the See also:signature of the peace of See also:Nijmwegen. His reputation was now high, and it is reputed that he quarrelled with Louvois, who managed to involve him in the " affair of the poisons " (see LA VOISIN, See also:CATHERINE) and get him sent to the See also:Bastille. Rousset in his Hisloire de Louvois has shown that this See also:quarrel is probably apocryphal. There is no doubt that Luxemburg spent some months of i68o in the Bastille, but on his See also:release took up his See also:post at See also:court as capitaine See also:des gardes. When the war of 1690 See also:broke out, the 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 and Louvois recognized that Luxemburg was the only general See also:fit to See also:cope with the prince of Orange, and he was put in command of the army of See also:Flanders. On the 1st of See also:July 1690 he won a great victory over the prince of Waldeck at See also:Fleurus. In the following See also:year he commanded the army which covered the king's See also:siege of See also:Mons and defeated See also:- WILLIAM
- WILLIAM (1143-1214)
- WILLIAM (1227-1256)
- WILLIAM (1J33-1584)
- WILLIAM (A.S. Wilhelm, O. Norse Vilhidlmr; O. H. Ger. Willahelm, Willahalm, M. H. Ger. Willehelm, Willehalm, Mod.Ger. Wilhelm; Du. Willem; O. Fr. Villalme, Mod. Fr. Guillaume; from " will," Goth. vilja, and " helm," Goth. hilms, Old Norse hidlmr, meaning
- WILLIAM (c. 1130-C. 1190)
- WILLIAM, 13TH
William III.
of See also:England at Leuze on See also:September 18, 1691. Again in the confiscated in 1806, and which were given by the See also:congress to the
next campaign he covered the king's siege of See also:Namur, and defeated William at See also:Steenkirk (q.v.) on See also:June 5, 1692; and on July 29, 1693, he won his greatest victory over his old adversary at See also:Neerwinden, after which he was called le tapissier de Notre See also:Dame from the number of captured See also:colours that he sent to the See also:cathedral. He wa4 received with See also:enthusiasm at Paris by all but the king, who looked coldly on a relative and adherent of the Condes. St See also:Simon describes in the first See also:volume of his See also:Memoirs how, instead of ranking as eighteenth peer of France according to his patent of 1661, he claimed through his wife to be duc de Piney of an old creation of 1571, which would See also:place him second on the See also:roll. The affair is described with St Simon's usual See also:interest in the See also:peerage, and was chiefly checked through his assiduity. In the campaign of 1694, Luxemburg did little in Flanders, except that he conducted a famous See also:march from Vignamont to Tournay in face of the enemy. On his return to See also:Versailles for the See also:winter he See also:fell See also:ill, and died on January 4, 1695. In his last moments he was attended by the famous Jesuit See also:priest See also:Bourdaloue, who said on his See also:death, " I have not lived his See also:life, but I would wish to See also:die his death." Luxemburg's morals were See also:bad even in those times, and he had shown little sign of religious conviction. But as a general he was Conde's grandest See also:- PUPIL (Lat. pupillus, orphan, minor, dim. of pupus, boy, allied to puer, from root pm- or peu-, to beget, cf. "pupa," Lat. for " doll," the name given to the stage intervening between the larval and imaginal stages in certain insects)
pupil. Though slothful like Conde in the management of a campaign, at the moment of See also:battle he seemed seized with happy inspirations, against which no ardour of William's and no steadiness of Dutch or See also:English soldiers could stand. His death and See also:Catinat's disgrace See also:close the second See also:period of the military See also:history of the reign of See also:- LOUIS
- LOUIS (804–876)
- LOUIS (893–911)
- LOUIS, JOSEPH DOMINIQUE, BARON (1755-1837)
- LOUIS, or LEWIS (from the Frankish Chlodowich, Chlodwig, Latinized as Chlodowius, Lodhuwicus, Lodhuvicus, whence-in the Strassburg oath of 842-0. Fr. Lodhuwigs, then Chlovis, Loys and later Louis, whence Span. Luiz and—through the Angevin kings—Hungarian
Louis XIV., and! Catinat and Luxemburg, though inferior to Conde and See also:Turenne, were far See also:superior to Tallard and See also:Villeroi. He was distinguished for a pungent wit. One of his retorts referred to his deformity. " I never can See also:beat that cursed humpback," William was reputed to have said of him. " How does he know I have a hump ? " retorted Luxemburg, " he has never seen my back." He See also:left four sons, the youngest of whom was a marshal of France as Marechal de Montmorency.
See, besides the various memoirs and histories of the See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time, Beau-See also:rain's Histoire militaire du duc de Luxembourg (See also:Hague and Paris, 1756) ; Memoires pour servir a l'histoire du marechal duc de Luxembourg (Hague and Paris, 1758) ; Courcelles, Dictionnaire des generaux See also:francais (Paris, 1823), vol. viii. There are some interesting facts in Desormeaux's Histoire de la maison de Montmorency (1764), vols. iv. and v. Camille Rousset's Louvois and the See also:recent See also:biography of Luxemburg by See also:Count de See also:Segur (1907) should also be studied.
End of Article: LUXEMBURG, FRANCOIS HENRI DE MONTMORENCYBOUTEVILLE, DUKE
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