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Jacques Nompar de Caumont, 1st Duke of La Force

Duke of La Force (1637-1652), Marshall of France

Field	Value
name	Jacques Nompar de Caumont
title	1st Duke of La Force
Marquis of La Force
image	Jacques Nompar de Caumont maréchal de La Force.jpg
caption	Portrait by Daniel Dumonstier, 1633
spouse	Charlotte de Gontaut
issue	8, including Armand-Nompar and Henri-Nompar
noble family	Caumont
father	Francois de Caumont
mother	Philippe de Beaupoil
birth_date	30 October 1558
death_date
burial_place	Milandes

Marquis of La Force | issue-link = | issue-pipe = | house-type = Jacques Nompar de Caumont, 1st Duke of La Force () (30 December 1558 – 10 May 1652) was a Marshal of France and Peer of France.

Life

Caumont was the son of a Huguenot, Francois de Caumont, lord of Castelnau, and Philippe de Beaupoil. He survived the St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre in 1572, but his father and older brother Armand were killed.{{cite web|title=Jacques-Nompar De CAUMONT, duc De La Force|work=Grand Dictionnaire Universel du XIXe sciècle

Caumont was made a marshal of France on 27 May 1622, to be employed as the Lieutenant-General of the Army of Piedmont. He campaigned in Piedmont in 1630, during the War of the Mantuan Succession, taking Pinerolo as well as Saluzzo and defeated the Spaniards at Carignano. In 1631, Caumont served in the Languedoc and between 1631 and 1634 he invaded Lorraine, and took La Mothe after a siege of 141 days in which Turenne first distinguished himself and Caumont's grandson Jacques was killed. He raised the siege of Philippsburg in Baden in 1634, during the Thirty Years' War, and captured the general Colloredo. In the following year, Caumont relieved Heidelberg and took Speyer.

Caumont was created Duc de La Force and a peer on 3 August 1637. In 1638 he besieged Saint-Omer in Flanders, but was defeated by Thomas Francis, Prince of Carignano. It was his last battle. Caumont died in Bergerac on 10 May 1652 and was buried in Milandes. He was succeeded by his eldest son, Armand-Nompar. His memoirs were published in 1843.

Marriages and issue

He married, on 5 February 1577, Charlotte de Gontaut, (1561–June 1635), daughter of marshal Armand de Gontaut, baron de Biron, and by her had ten children:
- Armand-Nompar de Caumont, duc de La Force (c.1580–1675), peer and marshal of France. His daughter
  - Charlotte married Henri de la Tour d'Auvergne, Vicomte de Turenne, but died in 1666 without children.
- Henri-Nompar de Caumont, duc de La Force (1582–1678), his daughter
  - Charlotte married in 1630 de Gabriel de Caumont, comte de Lauzun, and were parents of
    - Antoine Nompar de Caumont, Duc de Lauzun
- Jacques, seigneur de Maduran, killed during the Siege of Jülich in 1610
- Charles, seigneur de Maduran.
- Pierre, baron d'Aymet.
- Jean, seigneur de Montpouillan.
- Jean-Jacob, marquis de Tonneins
- François de Caumont La Force, whose daughter was:
  - Charlotte-Rose de Caumont La Force or Mademoiselle de La Force (1654–1724)
- Jacqueline
- Isabelle
He married, after 1635, Anne de Mornay, widow of Jacques Moues and daughter of Philippe de Mornay
He married, after 1635, Isabelle de Clermont-Gallerande, widow of Gideon van den Boetzelaer (1569–1634), Ambassador of the States of Holland in France.

Footnotes

Sources

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{{cite web|last=Delaforce |access-date=24 December 2013
{{cite web|title=Les Derniers Seigneurs de Caumont |access-date=24 December 2013
{{cite book|last=Guthrie
{{cite web|title=Jacques-Nompar De CAUMONT, duc DE LA FORCE |access-date=23 December 2013
{{cite book|last=Parrot
{{cite book|last=Sainte-Marie
{{cite book|last=Souleyreau
{{cite book|last=Thomas
{{cite book|last=Trevor-Roper
{{cite book|last=Voltaire
{{cite book|last=Wilson

References

"Jacques Nompar de Caumont, Duke of La Force". Mariefb.pagesperso-orange.fr.

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