Jean Armand de Maillé, Duke of Fronsac, Marquis of Brézé (18 October 1619 – 14 June 1646) was the first French Grand admiral.
He was born in Milly-le-Meugon, in one of the most powerful French families of the time; his father was Urbain de Maillé, Marquis of Brézé, Marshal of France, his uncle Cardinal Richelieu, King Louis XIII's renowned minister, and his brother-in-law, Louis de Bourbon, Prince of Condé, (better known as the le Grand Condé), was the First Prince of the Blood.
Thanks to his uncle, at the age of seventeen, he received the title of grand-maître de la navigation (Grand-master of Navigation), a new title created by King Louis XIII for Cardinal Richelieu and equivalent to Grand Admiral of France.
One of the leading figures in the Eighty Years' War, he defeated the Spanish fleet near Cadiz (20 July 1640), and then seized Villafranca. In 1641, he arrived in Portugal to help in the Portuguese Restoration War against Spain. In 1642, he fought an indecisive action against the Spanish forces near Barcelona, and nearly completely destroyed their fleet near Cartagena on 3 July 1643. He was killed on 16 June 1646, during the Battle of Orbetello, where his fleet was defeated.
His remains were buried in the church of Milly le Meugon, abutted to the castle walls.
Three ships were named in his honor.
46-gun ship of the line Brézé (1646-1665)
Maillé-Brézé (named Brézé until January 1931), a Vauquelin class destroyer destroyed in the accidental explosion of one of her torpedoes on 30 April, 1940 in Greenock, Scotland,UK.
Maillé-Brézé (D627), T 47 class destroyer, presently a museum, used in the new Dunkirk movie.
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Bio:
By
Jonathan Robert De Mallie, Garden State Historian and direct kinsman
Please pray for all the souls lost when American troops in WW2 entered Paris, France and the German SS Troops asainat3ed so many souls (500)in Maillé.
Maillé is a commune in the Vendée department in the Pays de la Loire region in western France.
Merci!
He was born in Milly-le-Meugon, in one of the most powerful French families of the time; his father was Urbain de Maillé, Marquis of Brézé, Marshal of France, his uncle Cardinal Richelieu, King Louis XIII's renowned minister, and his brother-in-law, Louis de Bourbon, Prince of Condé, (better known as the le Grand Condé), was the First Prince of the Blood.
Thanks to his uncle, at the age of seventeen, he received the title of grand-maître de la navigation (Grand-master of Navigation), a new title created by King Louis XIII for Cardinal Richelieu and equivalent to Grand Admiral of France.
One of the leading figures in the Eighty Years' War, he defeated the Spanish fleet near Cadiz (20 July 1640), and then seized Villafranca. In 1641, he arrived in Portugal to help in the Portuguese Restoration War against Spain. In 1642, he fought an indecisive action against the Spanish forces near Barcelona, and nearly completely destroyed their fleet near Cartagena on 3 July 1643. He was killed on 16 June 1646, during the Battle of Orbetello, where his fleet was defeated.
His remains were buried in the church of Milly le Meugon, abutted to the castle walls.
Three ships were named in his honor.
46-gun ship of the line Brézé (1646-1665)
Maillé-Brézé (named Brézé until January 1931), a Vauquelin class destroyer destroyed in the accidental explosion of one of her torpedoes on 30 April, 1940 in Greenock, Scotland,UK.
Maillé-Brézé (D627), T 47 class destroyer, presently a museum, used in the new Dunkirk movie.
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Bio:
By
Jonathan Robert De Mallie, Garden State Historian and direct kinsman
Please pray for all the souls lost when American troops in WW2 entered Paris, France and the German SS Troops asainat3ed so many souls (500)in Maillé.
Maillé is a commune in the Vendée department in the Pays de la Loire region in western France.
Merci!
Jean Armand de Maillé, Duke of Fronsac, Marquis of Brézé (18 October 1619 – 14 June 1646) was the first French Grand admiral.
He was born in Milly-le-Meugon, in one of the most powerful French families of the time; his father was Urbain de Maillé, Marquis of Brézé, Marshal of France, his uncle Cardinal Richelieu, King Louis XIII's renowned minister, and his brother-in-law, Louis de Bourbon, Prince of Condé, (better known as the le Grand Condé), was the First Prince of the Blood.
Thanks to his uncle, at the age of seventeen, he received the title of grand-maître de la navigation (Grand-master of Navigation), a new title created by King Louis XIII for Cardinal Richelieu and equivalent to Grand Admiral of France.
One of the leading figures in the Eighty Years' War, he defeated the Spanish fleet near Cadiz (20 July 1640), and then seized Villafranca. In 1641, he arrived in Portugal to help in the Portuguese Restoration War against Spain. In 1642, he fought an indecisive action against the Spanish forces near Barcelona, and nearly completely destroyed their fleet near Cartagena on 3 July 1643. He was killed on 16 June 1646, during the Battle of Orbetello, where his fleet was defeated.
His remains were buried in the church of Milly le Meugon, abutted to the castle walls.
Three ships were named in his honor.
46-gun ship of the line Brézé (1646-1665)
Maillé-Brézé (named Brézé until January 1931), a Vauquelin class destroyer destroyed in the accidental explosion of one of her torpedoes on 30 April, 1940 in Greenock, Scotland,UK.
Maillé-Brézé (D627), T 47 class destroyer, presently a museum, used in the new Dunkirk movie.
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Bio:
By
Jonathan Robert De Mallie, Garden State Historian and direct kinsman
Please pray for all the souls lost when American troops in WW2 entered Paris, France and the German SS Troops asainat3ed so many souls (500)in Maillé.
Maillé is a commune in the Vendée department in the Pays de la Loire region in western France.
Merci!
He was born in Milly-le-Meugon, in one of the most powerful French families of the time; his father was Urbain de Maillé, Marquis of Brézé, Marshal of France, his uncle Cardinal Richelieu, King Louis XIII's renowned minister, and his brother-in-law, Louis de Bourbon, Prince of Condé, (better known as the le Grand Condé), was the First Prince of the Blood.
Thanks to his uncle, at the age of seventeen, he received the title of grand-maître de la navigation (Grand-master of Navigation), a new title created by King Louis XIII for Cardinal Richelieu and equivalent to Grand Admiral of France.
One of the leading figures in the Eighty Years' War, he defeated the Spanish fleet near Cadiz (20 July 1640), and then seized Villafranca. In 1641, he arrived in Portugal to help in the Portuguese Restoration War against Spain. In 1642, he fought an indecisive action against the Spanish forces near Barcelona, and nearly completely destroyed their fleet near Cartagena on 3 July 1643. He was killed on 16 June 1646, during the Battle of Orbetello, where his fleet was defeated.
His remains were buried in the church of Milly le Meugon, abutted to the castle walls.
Three ships were named in his honor.
46-gun ship of the line Brézé (1646-1665)
Maillé-Brézé (named Brézé until January 1931), a Vauquelin class destroyer destroyed in the accidental explosion of one of her torpedoes on 30 April, 1940 in Greenock, Scotland,UK.
Maillé-Brézé (D627), T 47 class destroyer, presently a museum, used in the new Dunkirk movie.
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.
Bio:
By
Jonathan Robert De Mallie, Garden State Historian and direct kinsman
Please pray for all the souls lost when American troops in WW2 entered Paris, France and the German SS Troops asainat3ed so many souls (500)in Maillé.
Maillé is a commune in the Vendée department in the Pays de la Loire region in western France.
Merci!
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