Marshal of France is a French military distinction, rather than a military rank, that is awarded to generals for exceptional achievements. The title has been awarded since 1185, though briefly abolished (1793–1804) and for a period dormant (1870–1916). It was one of the Great Officers of the Crown of France during the Ancien Régime and Bourbon Restoration, and one of the Grand Dignitaries of the Empire during the First French Empire.
Adrien Maurice de Noailles, 3rd Duke of Noailles was a French nobleman and soldier.
La Force is French for the Force.
Jacques Nompar de Caumont, 1st Duke of La Force was a Marshal of France and Peer of France. He 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.
François-Louis Nompar de Caumont Laporte, comte de Castelnau was a French naturalist, known also as François Laporte or Francis de Castelnau. The standard author abbreviation Castelnau is used to indicate him when citing a botanical name and zoological names other than insects. Laporte is typically used when citing an insect name, or Laporte de Castelnau.
Major General Sir Charles Armand Powlett, KB, of Leadwell, Oxfordshire, was a British Army officer and Whig politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1729 and 1751.
Lord William Powlett was an English Member of Parliament.
Armand Nompar de Caumont, 2nd Duke of La Force was a Marshal of France and peer of France. He was the son of another Marshal of France, Jacques-Nompar de Caumont, duc de La Force and Charlotte de Gontaut, daughter of Marshal Armand de Gontaut, baron de Biron. Like his father, Armand-Nompar was a Huguenot Protestant.
Henri Nompar de Caumont, 3rd Duke of La Force was Duc de La Force and peer of France. He was the son of Marshal of France, Jacques-Nompar de Caumont, duc de La Force and Charlotte de Gontaut, daughter of Marshal Armand de Gontaut, baron de Biron. First marquis de Castelnau, later Duc de La Force after the death of his brother, he served King Louis XIII on many occasions in the army, under his father, as Maréchal-de-camp.
The title of Duc de Lauzun was a French peerage created in 1692 for Antoine Nompar de Caumont under influence of Mary of Modena. All dukes were marshals of France or renowned generals.
Nompar is a given name. Notable people with the name include:
Henri Jacques Nompar de Caumont, 5th Duke of La Force was a French nobleman and peer, the son of Jacques-Nompar II de Caumont, duc de La Force and Suzanne de Beringhen. He was a member of the Académie française.
Jacques Nompar de Caumont, 4th Duke of La Force was a French nobleman and peer, the son of Jacques de Caumont, Marquis de Boësse and Louise de Saint Georges. He held his late father's title from the age of two until the death of his grandfather, Henri-Nompar de Caumont, duc de La Force. Jacques-Nompar very rapidly assumed the title of duc de La Force at the closing of parliament 10 February 1678 and was acknowledged a peer, subject to conversion to Catholicism.
Armand Nompar de Caumont, 6th Duke of La Force was a French nobleman and peer, a son of Jacques-Nompar II de Caumont, duc de La Force and Suzanne de Beringhen. He held the title of Marquis de Boësse until the death of his elder brother, Henri-Jacques Nompar de Caumont, duc de La Force. He assumed the title of duc de La Force and became a peer at the closing of parliament 13 March 1727.
Jacques Nompar de Caumont, 7th Duke of La Force was a French nobleman and peer, the son of Armand-Nompar II de Caumont, duc de La Force and Anne-Elisabeth Gruel de Boismont. He held the title of Marquis of La Force until he succeeded his father as duc de La Force in 1761.
Bertrand Nompar de Caumont, marquis de La Force was a French nobleman, the son of Jean François de Caumont and Jeanne de Maury. He was a knight, and held the titles of seigneur de Beauvilla then marquis de La Force, Caumont and Taillebourg, comte de Mussidan and baron de Castelnau-Les-Milandes. In the royal household he was appointed as Garde du Corps du Roi and Gentilhomme de la Chambre.
Jean de Laforcade, Seigneur de La Fitte-Juson, aka Jean de Laforcade, Seigneur de La Fitte-Suzon (sic), aka Jean de La Forcade, aka Jean de La Fourcade, aka Jean de la Fourcade, aka Jean de Lafourcade, aka Jean de Laforcade, aka Jean de Fourcade, was the son of Protestant nobleman Jean de Laforcade, Seigneur de La Fitte, and a descendant of the noble family of Forcade of Béarn in Navarre.
Nompar of Caumont (1391–1446) was a Gascon lord who left written accounts of his pilgrimages to Santiago de Compostela and Jerusalem. His work has also contributed lexicographic inputs to the Dictionary of Middle French.
William Powlett, of Chilbolton and Easton, Hampshire, was a British landowner and Whig politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1729 and 1757.
Events from the year 1558 in France