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Charles Chalmot de Saint-Ruhe [needs IPA] (c. 1650 – 12 July 1691) was a French cavalry officer, serving in the armies of Louis XIV. Despite a long career, Saint-Ruhe is remembered largely for his brief service in Ireland during the Williamite War, in which France provided military support to the Jacobite forces of James II.
Charles Chalmont, marquis de Saint-Ruth, fut un général français, commandant des troupes de Louis XIV, qui se battit en Irlande aux côtés des Jacobites durant la Rébellion jacobite.
- Baron de Tirconnell
- marquis de Saint-Ruth
- Baron de Lucan
Saint-Ruth (Saint-Ruhe), Charles Chalmont (c.1650–91), marquis of Saint-Ruth , commander of the Irish Jacobite army in 1691, was a French aristocrat of modest means who had made his career as an officer in Louis XIV's army.
St. Ruth, a French general, sent over by Louis XIV. to command the Irish army, in May 1691. He had already led some regiments of the Irish brigade in Savoy, where he acted with the greatest barbarity towards the Protestants.
Charles Chalmont Marquis of St Ruth[1] (circa 1650 – 12 July 1691) was a French general. Early in his military career, he fought against Protestants in France. Later, he fought in Ireland on the Jacobite side in the Williamite wars, where he was killed at the Battle of Aughrim.
- Marie Coëffier
- July 12, 1691
The Battle of Aughrim. Godard De Ginkel, first Earl of Athlone by Sir Godfrey. Aughrim need never have been fought. That it happened was due to the Frenchman Charles Chalmont, Marquis de Saint-Ruhe, generally referred to as Saint Ruth who assumed the post of Marshal-General of Ireland, in May 1691.
In May 1691 the general arrived. He was Charles Chalmont, Marquis de St Ruth. His reputation had preceded him. In operations against the Protestants in Savoy his command had included the Irish regiments of MacCarthy, Dillon and O'Brien. St Ruth had thought highly of these Irish troops, and they had
