See also:ABRAHAM DE See also:FABERT (1599-166o)
, See also:marshal of See also:France, was the son of See also:Abraham See also:Fabert, seigneur de See also:Moulins (d
.
1638), a famous printer who rendered See also:great services, See also:civil and military, to See also:- HENRY
- HENRY (1129-1195)
- HENRY (c. 1108-1139)
- HENRY (c. 1174–1216)
- HENRY (Fr. Henri; Span. Enrique; Ger. Heinrich; Mid. H. Ger. Heinrich and Heimrich; O.H.G. Haimi- or Heimirih, i.e. " prince, or chief of the house," from O.H.G. heim, the Eng. home, and rih, Goth. reiks; compare Lat. rex " king "—" rich," therefore " mig
- HENRY, EDWARD LAMSON (1841– )
- HENRY, JAMES (1798-1876)
- HENRY, JOSEPH (1797-1878)
- HENRY, MATTHEW (1662-1714)
- HENRY, PATRICK (1736–1799)
- HENRY, PRINCE OF BATTENBERG (1858-1896)
- HENRY, ROBERT (1718-1790)
- HENRY, VICTOR (1850– )
- HENRY, WILLIAM (1795-1836)
Henry IV
.
At the See also:age of fourteen he entered the Gardes francaises, and in 1618 received a See also:commission in the See also:Piedmont See also:regiment, becoming See also:major in 1627
.
He distinguished himself repeatedly in the See also:constant See also:wars of the See also:period, notably in La Rochelle and at the See also:siege of Exilles in 163o
.
His bravery and See also:engineering skill were again displayed in the sieges of See also:Avesnes and See also:Maubeuge in 1637, and in 1642 See also:- LOUIS
- LOUIS (804–876)
- LOUIS (893–911)
- LOUIS, JOSEPH DOMINIQUE, BARON (1755-1837)
- LOUIS, or LEWIS (from the Frankish Chlodowich, Chlodwig, Latinized as Chlodowius, Lodhuwicus, Lodhuvicus, whence-in the Strassburg oath of 842-0. Fr. Lodhuwigs, then Chlovis, Loys and later Louis, whence Span. Luiz and—through the Angevin kings—Hungarian
Louis XIII. made him See also:governor of the recently-acquired fortress of See also:Sedan
.
In 1651 he became See also:lieutenant-See also:general, and in 16J4 at the siege of Stenay he introduced new methods of siegecraft which anticipated in a measure the great improvements of See also:Vauban
.
In 1658 Fabert was made a marshal of France, being the first commoner to attain that See also:rank
.
He died at Sedan on the 17th of May 166o
.
See Histoire du marechal de Fabert (See also:Amsterdam, 1697) ; P
.
See also:Barre, See also:Vie de Fabert (See also:Paris, 1752) ; A
.
Feillet, Le Premier Marechal de France plebeien (Paris, 1869) ; Bourelly, Le Marechal Fabert (Paris, 188o)
.
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