Louis Prévost de Sansac

Louis Prévost de Sansac , baron de Sansac and of Cellefroyn, knight about the King, lieutenant of the king in Angoumois and Guyenne, Seneshal of Saintonge, Large Falconer of France, was one of large the captains of XVIe century.

François I {{er}}, worthy valuer of the men of war, said: “We are four gentlemen of Guyenne who fight against all “energies and coming”: me, Sansac, Essé and Chataigneraye. ”

Born with Cognac in 1496, of an authentic chalk-lining going back to XIVe century, it was high at the court of the Valois. Initially page of the Constable of France Anne de Montmorency, it took part in the Guerre of Italy under the orders of the admiral Guillaume Gouffier de Bonnivet; captive fact with Pavia, it managed to escape and returned in France, from where the queen-mother sent it several times in Spain towards the captive king.

Considered one of the best riders of his time, François Ier chooses it to teach equestrian art with his children. Also during the captivity of the duke of Aumale, the load of colonel of the Horse-light was given to him. “And saw itself Mr. Sansac to order with the princes of blood, such Misters D' Enghien, Condé, Nemours and an infinity of Princes and large Lords: here is thus the honor which is not small that had Sansac to order from this principality and French nobility. ” (Brantôme).

The marshal Strozzi in Italy charged it with defending Mirandole against the Spaniards and the troops of the Pape. He covered glory there by supporting a eight month old seat that the enemies last rising and “he perpetuated his name by cutting a trophy of immortality there” (Yearly of Aquitaine).

He was distinguished the following year in the countryside from Picardy. Governor of the children of France on his return and receipt the title of knight of Saint-Michel, it was named to advise particular of the king François II and for mission with had died of the prince to lead his skin to Saint-Denis.

In 1562, it took again Angouleme with the Huguenot S, ordered the armies with Charity and with Vézelay, was Brigadier with Dreux under the orders of the Duc of Own way, then lieutenant-general in the Champagne army, Burgundy and Nivernais.

Being found in eleven pitched battles without never to have been wounded that in that of the Saint-Denis, having served five kings, he died in 1576 at eighty years “in title of Marshal of France, not which he was provided, but he had of it the state, the pledges and passion, like true Marshal of France”, said Brantôme in his Vie of the large captains .

Sansac married Louise de Montberon, of the Counts d' Angoulême, back-small-girl of Jacques, Marshal of France, and had some a son Jean, baron de Sansac and of Montmoreau, knight of the Order, Capitaine of the Door under Charles IX and Henri III, governor of Guyenne, married in 1572 in Jeanne of With a grid-Brézé.

His/her Antoine brother was Archevêque of Bordeaux and as a such primacy of Aquitaine of 1560 to 1591.

The posterity of this house is currently represented by the marquis de Toucheimbert, of Vauzelle and Traversay.

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