Jean-Baptiste Budes, comte de Guébriant (1602 – 17 November 1643) was

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Life

He was born at Plessis-Budes, near St Brieuc, in a

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family. He served as a soldier first in the

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, and in the

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he commanded from 1638 to 1639 the French contingent in the army of his friend

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, distinguishing himself particularly at the siege of Breisach in 1638. On the death of Bernard he received the command of his army, and tried, in conjunction with

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(1596-1641), the Swedish general, a bold attack upon

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(1640). His victories at

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on 29 June 1641 and at Kempen in 1642 won for him the marshal's baton. Having failed in an attempt to invade

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with Torstensson, he seized

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but was mortally wounded there on 17 November 1643, dying five or six days later.

References

*Le Laboreur (1656), ''Histoire du maréchal de Guébriant'' *A. Brinzinger in ''Württembergische Vierteljahrschrift für Landesgeschichte'' (1902). ;Attribution {{DEFAULTSORT:Guebriant 1602 births 1643 deaths Marshals of France Military personnel of the Thirty Years' War