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Charles de Gontaut, 1st Duke of Biron (c. 1562 –31 July 1602) was a French noble, military commander, Admiral, Marshal and governor during the final days of the French Wars of Religion. The son of Marshal Armand de Gontaut, baron de Biron who had served the crown militarily throughout the religious wars, Biron made his entry into ...
- c. 1562, Kingdom of France
- Famille de Gontaut [fr]
- 31 July 1602, Bastille, Kingdom of France
modifier. Charles de Gontaut, duc de Biron, né en 1562 à Saint-Blancard, et exécuté le 31 juillet 1602 à la Bastille, est un militaire français. Maréchal de France, il est connu pour l'amitié que lui portait Henri IV, qu'il a pourtant trahi.
Charles de Gontaut, baron and duke de Biron (born 1562—died July 31, 1602, Paris, France) was the son of Armand who won the favour of King Henry IV by his courage and enterprise at Arques and Ivry and was made admiral of France and Brittany in 1592 after his father’s death.
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Carlos de Gontaut, primer duque de Biron ( c. 1562 –31 de julio de 1602) fue un noble francés, comandante militar, almirante, mariscal y gobernador durante los últimos días de las Guerras de Religión francesas.
Armand Louis de Gontaut (French pronunciation: [aʁmɑ̃ lwi də ɡɔ̃to]), duc de Lauzun, later duc de Biron, and usually referred to by historians of the French Revolution simply as Biron (13 April 1747 – 31 December 1793) was a French soldier and politician, known for the part he played in the American War of Independence and ...
- 31 December 1793 (aged 46), Paris, French First Republic
BIRON, Charles de Gontault, Duke de (1562-1602). A French soldier, son of Armand, under whose command he served with distinction in the campaigns against the League, acquiring renown and the surname of ‘Fulmen Galliæ,’ or ‘Thunderbolt of France.’
The Château de Biron is a castle in the valley of the Lède in the commune of Biron in the Dordogne département of France . History. It was the castle from which the Gontaut-Biron took their name, their seat from the twelfth century. Biron was seized by the Cathars in 1211 and retaken by Simon de Montfort, 5th Earl of Leicester the following year.
