Charles III of Créquy

Charles III of Blanchefort-Créquy (born in 1623 - died the February 13rd 1687), knight, marquis of Créquy, prince of Pitch, knight of the orders of the king, first gentleman of his room, governor of Paris and lieutenant-general of the armies of the king, was a soldier and diplomatic French 17th century.

Biography

Charles III of Créquy was the oldest son of the marshal Charles II of Blanchefort-Créquy (v. 1575 - 1638) and the grandson of the marshal François de Bonne of Lesdiguières (1543 - 1626), last Connétable of France. Charles served in the royal armies during the Thirty Year old Guerre of 1642 with 1645 and in Catalogne in 1649. After the Head office of Orbitello (1646), it was named lieutenant-general of the armies of the king.

To thank it for its good and faithful services during the minority for the king, the queen Anne of Austria and the cardinal Mazarin did it count de Créquy and raised it with the dignity of Pair of France in 1652.

Thereafter, it was in favor of Charles III that the king Louis XIV set up the ground of Poix in duchy-peerage, by letters patent data with Melun in June 1662, recorded at the Parliament of Paris, on December 15th, 1663, under the terms of the letters of surannation, of the 11 of the same month, and in the room of the accounts, on April 12th, 1677.

This peerage was extinct after the death of his/her only daughter Madeleine de Créquy who had married Charles Belgium Holland of Trémoille. Duchy-peerage included/understood the town of Pitch, the Viscount of Esquennes, the châtellenie of Agnières, the grounds and seigniories of Arnehou, Blangy, Cempuis, Croixrault, Eramecourt, Escantu, Essilières, Frettemolle, Hélincourt. the Street Notre-Dame, Saint-Clearly and Vandricourt

He was ambassador with Rome in 1662. He was insulted there by the Corsican Garde of the pope Alexandre VII which drew on its hotel and wounded its people. Louis XIV required that the governor of Rome, nephew of the pope, come in person to make him excuses for this insult and that a pyramid was high with Rome in remembering repair.

See too

Family of Créquy

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