Timoléon d'Espinay

Timoléon d' Espinay, marquis de Saint Luc ( * 1580, † 1644 in Bordeaux) was a French military leader, Marshal of France and Knight of the Royal Order.

Timoléon d' Espinay was the eldest of four sons of François d' Espinay, seigneur de Saint Luc (1554-1597), Grand Maître de l' artillery de France ( 1596), and Jeanne de Cossé, daughter of Marshal Charles I. de Cossé, comte de Brissac.

He accompanied Sully in 1603 on his mission to London. 1622, as Vice- Admiral of France, he scored some victories over the defenders of La Rochelle and forced the Huguenot leader Benjamin de Rohan, to evacuate the islands of Ré and Oléron.

1627, he was appointed governor-general of the province of Guyenne and Marshal of France. He died in 1644 in Bordeaux, his body was taken to Paris and buried in the Chapelle d' Orleans.

• Marshal of France
• Frenchman
• Born in 1580
• Died in 1644
• Man