Schomberg, Frederick Herman, duke of

Schomberg, Frederick Herman, duke of

▪ German soldier
original name  Friedrich Hermann Von Schönberg  
born Dec. 16, 1615, Heidelberg, Palatinate
died July 1, 1690, Boyne, Ire.

      German soldier of fortune, a marshal of France, and an English peer, who fought in the service of various countries in the major European wars between 1634 and 1690.

      Schomberg was the son of the Protestant court marshal of Frederick V, elector Palatine, and of Anne, daughter of an English peer, the 5th Lord Dudley. He volunteered under Frederick Henry of Orange in 1633 and, from 1634 to 1637 during the Thirty Years' War, served in the army of Bernard of Saxe-Weimar for campaigns on the upper Rhine. In 1639 he again went to Holland for some years of service.

      In 1650 Cardinal Mazarin, in the crisis of the Fronde (Fronde, the), secured him and his German infantry for the French royal army that defeated the rebel Marshal de Turenne at the Battle of Rethel (Dec. 15, 1650). Schomberg was appointed maréchal de camp on Oct. 28, 1652, after Turenne had changed sides, and was one of Turenne's best officers in the campaigns against the Spaniards and the Prince de Condé.

      In 1660 he went to Lisbon to organize a Portuguese army against Spain. After placing Dom Pedro (later Pedro II) in power in a palace revolution in 1668, he returned to his position in the French army, having become naturalized as a Frenchman. During the Dutch War (1672–78) he went to England in 1673 on the invitation of Charles II to form an army for the proposed invasion of Holland, but soon returned to the French Army and was on Louis XIV's staff at the siege and capture of Maastricht (June 1673); in 1675 he was one of eight marshals of France appointed on Turenne's death.

      The revocation of the Edict of Nantes (1685) drove Schomberg, a Protestant, from France, but he was welcomed by Frederick William of Brandenburg, “the Great Elector.” In 1688 the Elector lent him and a Prussian force to William of Orange (later William III of Great Britain), whom he accompanied to England. He was naturalized as English in April 1689 and in May was created duke of Schomberg (as well as baron of Teyes, earl of Brentford, and marquess of Harwich). He went to Ireland as commander in chief against James II in August 1689 and was killed by some Irish cavalry at the Battle of the Boyne.

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