The Grand Écuyer de France or Grand Squire of France or Grand Equerry of France was one of the Great Officers of the Crown of France and a member of the Maison du Roi during the Ancien Régime. The name "écuyer", the French word for squire, is the origin for the French word "écurie" (stable) and the English word equerry. The position was roughly equivalent to the United Kingdom positions of Master of the Horse and the Crown Equerry.
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Roger II de Saint-Lary, seigneur de Termes, duc de Bellegarde, nephew of Roger de Saint-Lary de Bellegarde, was a French duke.
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César de Saint-Lary, baron de Bellegarde et Termes was a French noble, governor, courtier and military commander. The son of the royal favourite Roger de Saint-Lary and Marguerite de Savoie, Bellegarde entered royal service as a gentilhomme de la chambre at the age of 16. In 1579, his father who was rebelling against the crown died, and Bellegarde claimed his father's governate of Saluzzo, taking up his cause. The royal favourite the duke of Épernon was sent to negotiate him out of his control of Saluzzo, the two came to a compromise but this was foiled by rebellious commanders subordinate to Bellegarde who refused to yield their towns. Marshal Retz would later succeed in securing all the towns of Saluzzo, and negotiating Bellegarde out of any control over the governate. In compensation Bellegarde was made maître de camp of the light cavalry and captain in the royal ordinance company. In 1585 he became governor of the Angoumois, Saintonge and pays d'Aunis, succeeding Philippe de Volvire, in this post he sought to bring the local nobility into alignment with the crown. In 1587 he joined the royal favourite Anne de Joyeuse on his royal campaign against the king of Navarre in Poitou, and received fatal wounds at the Battle of Coutras, which he would die of on 29 October 1587.
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