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MONTGOMERY, See also:GABRIEL, SEIGNEUR DE LORGES, See also:COMTE DE (c. 1530-1574) , See also:French soldier, became a See also:lieutenant in the See also:king of See also:France's Scottish See also:guards, of which his See also:father was See also:captain, and engaged in See also:police operations against the Protestants. Having inadvertently caused the See also:death of King See also:Henry II. in a See also:tournament (See also:June 30, 1559) he was disgraced and retired to his estates in See also:Normandy. He studied theological questions and espoused the cause of the Reformers. In 1562 he allied himself with the See also:prince of See also:Conde, took See also:Bourges, and defended See also:Rouen from See also:September to See also:October 1562 against the royal See also:army. In the third See also:War of See also:Religion he occupied Bearn and Bigorre (1569). Escaping from the See also:massacre of St See also:Bartholomew, he went to See also:England and returned with a See also:fleet for the See also:relief of La Rochelle (1573), but soon had to withdraw to See also:Cornwall. Returning to Normandy in 1574, he defended See also:Domfront, which was being besieged by See also:Marshal de Matignon, but was forced to capitulate on the 25th of May. He was sentenced to death by the See also:parlement, and beheaded in See also:Paris on the 26th of June 1574. See L Marlet, Le Comte de Montgomery (Paris, 1890).

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