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MONTMORENCY, ANNE

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Originally appearing in Volume V18, Page 788 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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MONTMORENCY, See also:ANNE , Due DE (1493—1567), See also:constable of See also:France, was See also:born at See also:Chantilly, and was brought up with the future See also:King See also:Francis I., whom he followed into See also:Italy in 1515, distinguishing himself especially at Marignano. In 1516 he became See also:governor of See also:Novara; in 1520 he was See also:present at the See also:Field of See also:Cloth of See also:Gold, and afterwards had See also:charge of important negotiations in See also:England. Successful in the See also:defence of See also:Mezieres (1521), and as See also:commander of the Swiss troops in the See also:Italian See also:campaign of the same See also:year, he was made See also:marshal of France in 1522, accompanied Francis into Italy in 1524, and was taken prisoner at See also:Pavia in 1525. Released soon afterwards, he was one of the negotiators of the treaty of See also:Madrid, and in 1530 reconducted the king's sons into France. On the renewal of the See also:war by See also:Charles V.'s invasion of France in 1536, Montmorency compelled the See also:emperor to raise the See also:siege of See also:Marseilles; he afterwards accompanied the king of France into See also:Picardy, and on the termination of the See also:Netherlands campaign marched to the See also:relief of See also:Turin. In 1538, on the ratification of the ten years' truce, he was rewarded with the See also:office of constable, but in 1541 he See also:fell into disgrace, and did not return to public See also:life until the See also:accession of See also:Henry II. in 1547. In 1548 he repressed the insurrections in the See also:south-See also:west, particularly at See also:Bordeaux, with See also:great severity, and in 1549-50 conducted the war in the Boulonnais, negotiating the treaty for the surrender of See also:Boulogne on the 24th of See also:March 1550. In 1551 his See also:barony was erected into a duchy. Soon afterwards his armies found employment in the See also:north-See also:east in connexion with the seizure of See also:Metz, See also:Toul and See also:Verdun by the See also:French king. His See also:attempt to relieve St Quentin resulted in his defeat and captivity (Aug. 1o, 1557), and he did not regain his See also:liberty until the See also:peace of Cateau-Cambresis in 1559. Supplanted in the See also:interval by the Guises, he was treated with coldness by the new king, Francis II., and compelled to give up his See also:master-See also:ship of the royal See also:household—his son, however, being appointed marshal by way of See also:indemnity.

On the accession of Charles IX. in 156o he resumed his offices and dignities, and, uniting with his former enemies, the Guises, played an important See also:

part in the Huguenot war of 1562. Though the arms of his party were victorious at See also:Dreux, he himself fell into the hands of the enemy, and was not liberated until the treaty of See also:Amboise (March 19, 1563). In 1567 he again triumphed at St See also:Denis, but received the See also:death-See also:blow of which he died at See also:Paris, on the 15th of March, 1567. See F. Decrue, Anne de Montmorency (Paris, 1885), and Anne, duc de Montmorency (Paris, 1889).

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