Gabriel Ier de Montgomery

Biography

Wire of Jacques Ier de Lorges, count de Montgomery, originating in Scotland, captain distinguished from the Scottish Guard attached to the service of François I {{er}} and of Claude of Bouxière, rams of Ducey, it is the author of the fatal blow to the eye, at the time of a tournament in Paris, close to the Hôtel of the Small towers, which cost the life Henri II on July 1st 1559 which failed several days lasting in spite of the care of its surgeon Ambroise Paré. Although the king exonerated Montgomery of any fault and exonerated it of any blame on its bed of death, the woman of the king, Catherine de Médicis which, until there, had played only one minor part, never ceased pursueing Montgomery of her vindication: banished court as of following day, this one had its hello only with one escape careful in England, where it adhered to the Réforme of which it became, of return in France, one of the spearheads in Normandy like one of the commanders able of the admiral de Coligny, illustrating side protesting in the Wars of religion. It transformed the Saint-Germain vault of its castle into sermon Protesting. He married Isabeau of Tiral (also called Elisabeth of the Key) (1550-1593), of which he had four boys and four girls, of which Gabriel II of Montgomery, builder of the castle of Ducey.

In May 1562, it took, during the first war of religion, the town of Bourges that its troops ransacked. He faced the marshal of Matignon in Normandy and was, at the time of the third war of religion (1569 - 1570), one of the large captains of the camp protesting in the campaigns in Guyenne, Périgord, Quercy and Béarn. During the Battle of Jarnac, it tried without success to release Condé. It was among the few refugees to survive the Massacre of the St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre when, wisely withdrawn from the city after the attempted murder of its mentor Coligny, a wounded Huguenot crossed the the Seine to the stroke to inform it. Its head was put at price and of the hunters of premium pursued it until in England where Catherine de Médicis claimed its extradition on several occasions. The queen Elisabeth made him answer: “Known as with the Queen-mother who I will not be the torturer of France. ”

Catherine de Médicis, become meanwhile a key character of the French history, ends up obtaining satisfaction in 1574 when, besieged in Domfront on May 9th after the failure of an insurrection in Normandy, it went on May 27th to the marshal of Matignon. Led to Paris, he was decapitated in Place of Strike on June 26th 1574. Informed on the scaffold that a royal edict confiscated its goods and deprived his/her children of their titles, he says to his torturers: “Known as with my children that if they cannot begin again what was taken, I curse them of my tomb. ”

Gabriel de Montgomery had several children with his wife:

Jacques II, 1551-1590
Gédéon, died in 1596
Gilles, 1558-1596
Gabriel II, 1565-1635, father of 6 children
4 girls: Suzanne, Elisabeth and Claude, the name of the fourth girl is unknown, one knows only that it Maria with Jehan de Refuge, baron de Galardon

Gabriel II of Montgomery had in its turn 6 children: Louise, Gabriel III (1560-1635), Suzanne, Louis Ier (1601-1682), Jean (1605-1664) Jacques III (1609-1682)

Descendants

The most famous descendant of Gabriel de Montgomery was Bernard Montgomery, general British of the Second world war.

Anecdotes

Pictorial representation of the time

There exists a table of time, representative Gabriel Ier de Montgomery, its name is spelled there M_R OF MONGOMERY

Other places related to Montgomery

Bourgbarré (Ille-et-Vilaine)
Pontorson (Handle)

Modern time

Today, a college of the town of Ducey bears the name of Gabriel de Montgomery.

Before the son, the father…

The father of Gabriel de Montgomery, Jacques Ier de Lorges, is at the origin of a caused wound with François I {{er}} on January 6th, 1521, whereas the court celebrated the Epiphany with Romorantin (having exhausted the stock of snowballs, it used a firebrand ignited like projectile. This one accidentally reached the king by inflicting a burn with the face and an important hemorrhage to him, fortunately without fatal consequence…).

Prophecy of Nostradamus

One wanted to make correspond one of the multiple prophecies made by Nostradamus with this accidental death of Henri II.

Historical novel

Alexandre Dumas gave a fictionalized version of the history of Montgomery in the novel both Dianes .

References

Alain Landurant, Montgommery, the regicide , Tallandier, 1988 ISBN 2235017738

External bonds

College Gabriel de Montgomery

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