Frédéric Maurice de La Tour d'Auvergne

Frédéric Maurice de La Tour d' Auvergne ( * October 22 1605 in Sedan, † August 9, 1652 in Pontoise ) was Duke of Bouillon, a French general and a leader of the Fronde.

Life

Frédéric -Maurice was the son of Henri de La Tour d' Auvergne from his second marriage to Elizabeth of Orange-Nassau, daughter of William the Silent. His younger brother was the famous Marshal Turenne.

In the Protestant faith educated, he fought in the Netherlands under the command of his uncle, Prince Maurice of Orange, and joined in 1635 French services. First, an enemy of Richelieu, he received the reconciliation in 1642 in command of the French troops in Italy. Shortly thereafter, he was arrested in connection with the Cinq- Mars conspiracy. In return for his pardon, he was forced to cede to France its sovereign Principality of Sedan.

Later he converted to the Catholic faith, went to Rome and took over the command of the papal troops. 1649 he returned to France and took part on the side of the princes of the Fronde.

1651, he received Sedan and Rocourt in exchange for other lands as a fief of the French crown back.

One of his descendants was Marie Anne Henriette Léopoldine de La Tour d' Auvergne, the mother of the Elector Karl Theodor of the Palatinate.

See also: La Tour d' Auvergne ( nobility )