Jean De Beaumanoir (1551 – 17 November 1614),

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and afterwards

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de Lavardin, count of Nègrepelisse by marriage, was a French

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Early life

Son of Charles de Beaumanoir, baron de Lavardin and Marguerite de Chourses.

Career

De Beaumanoir served first in the Protestant army during the French Wars of Religion, but switched his support to the

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forces after the

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. His father was killed in the massacre, after which De Beaumanoir fought against Henry of Navarre. When Henry became king of France, Lavardin changed over to his side, and was made a marshal of France. He was governor of

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, commanded an army in

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in 1602, was

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extraordinary to

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in 1612, and died in Paris 1614.

Personal life

De Beaumanoir married Catherine de Carmaing. Together, they were the parents of: * Charles de Beaumanoir (1586–1637),

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. * Henri de Beaumanoir, Marquis de Lavardin (d. 1633), who married Marguerite de La Baume, a daughter of Rostaing de la Baume, comte de Suze and sister of

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. De Beaumanoir died on 17 November 1614 in Paris.

Descendants

Through his second son Henri, he was a grandfather of Madeleine de Beaumanoir; Henri de Beaumanoir, Marquis de Lavardin (d. 1644) and Philibert Emmanuel de Beaumanoir. He was a great-grandfather of Henri Charles de Beaumanoir, Marquis de Lavardin (1643–1701), who was sent as ambassador to

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in 1689, on the occasion of a difference between

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and

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References

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