Page:The Complete Peerage Ed 1 Vol 7.djvu/83

 SCHOMBKRG. 81 pension of £5,000 a yenr. When peace was concluded 13 Feb. 1668, he, tho' invited to England in 1G73 with a view of being made Commander-in- Chief, again entered the French Bervice aa Lieut.-Gen., taking command in Catalonia in June 1 L>74 with great success and forcing tin- Prince of Orange to raise the Biege of Maastricht in Aug. 1676. and of Charlervi in Aug. 1677. He was, probably about this period, made Count of Coubert and Vitky in Brie in Franc'. He was Lieut.-Gen. in the English army, July 1673 ; Marshal of France, 167S to 1685, at which date, after the revocation (2'2 Oct. 1685) of the edict of Nantes, he quitted the French service. By the Elector of Brandenburg he was made ill 1687 Minister of State, Gov. of the Duchy of Prussia, and General- issimo of his troops. He in 1688 accompanied William, Prince of Orange to England, by whom, when he became King thereof, he was made Co), of the 1st Foot in Dec. 1688 : Caot. Gen. of the Forces. 1689 ; el. and inv. K.G. 3 April and inst. 14 May 1659 Leing a: 10 April 1689(») BAKON TEYES and EARL OE BRENTFORD, co. Mkldx, MARQUESS OF HARWICH, co. Essex, and DUKE OF SCHOM- BERG.O') with rem. to his third son Charles, in tail male, rem. to his second son Meinhart in tail male, rem. to his own heirs male. Master Gen. of the Ordnance, April 1689 ; P.C.. May 1689, receiving a grant from the House of Commons of £100.000 [!] in July 1689. i c ) He was Commander-in-Chief in Ireland, 1689-90, and as such, after having captured Carrick Fergus and Charlemont, was slain at the battle of the Boyne, 1 July 1690, aged 74, and was bur. 10 under the altar in St. Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin. M.I.C 1 ) Admon 19 Nov, 1690. He m. firstly his cousin, Jane Elizabeth, da. of his paternal uncle Henry Dietrich, CoUNT OF ScHoNBERG AT Wksel. He m. secondly. 14 April 1669, Susanne( e ) D'AumaLE. yst. da. of David, styled Count op Aomalk, Seieneur de Haucourt (near St. Queutin), by Francoise de St. Pol, Ditine de Villers-Outreau, da. of Claude de St. Pol, Seigneur de Valiere and Villers- Outreau. and Capt. of Camhrai. The date of her death has not been ascertained. II. 1G90. 2. Charles (de Schonderg, or Schomberg), Duke op SCHOMBERQ, &c, 3d [surv.] s. by first wife,( r ) 6. soon after 1645 : styled Count Charles ds Schombeho, 1665-90, and was Lieut, Col. in Schomberg s Keg. of (»1 This date is the one given in Doyle, that in Courthopc is " 9 March 1689." (<■) This >vas the thin? of nine Dukedoms conferred by William 111. within six years. See vol. ii, p. 274, tub " Clare." (') Though considered, by many, the greatest General of his day and one who had, for the sake of his religion, sacrificed a brilliant position in France, it does not appear that he had done any service whatever to England at the time of this grant or of his elevation to an English Dukedom. A grant of £4.000 a year for ever, payable to his heirs, was the reward for his service of one year aud death in Ireland. It seems probable that these rewards were the condition of his accompanying the Prince of Orange to England in 1688. He was on intimate terms with him aud frequently dined with him alone, while the great nobles of England and Holland were merely spectators. The pension to his heirs was partly redeemed in 1854, aud subsequently, but i'984 a year thereof was remaining in 1881. His portrait "after W. Wissing" is in Doyle, and there is a fine portrait of him on horseback in the possession of the Duke of Leeds. (*) Dean Swift felt a great deal of sceva indignatio with Lady Holdemess, the granddaughter and other the descendants of the Duke, for taking no notice of his repeated snggestions that they should put up some memorial in St. Patrick's to their distinguished ancestor. Finally, the Dean aud Chapter put it up themselves and added a pungent Latin inscription ending, " Plus potuit fama virtutis apud alienos quam sanguinis proximitas apud suos." (') Her parentage, &c, is supplied by G. W. Watson. ( r ) He probably was the yst. surv. son, when the Dukedom was granted iu 1689, hut there was a 5th aud yst. son, Henry, who d. (probably v.p.) at Brussels of wounds received in a skirmish in Flanders ; the 4th sou was Charles, and the 3d son was Meinhart, both successively Dukes ; the 2d sou, Otho, was slain v.p. at the siege of Valenciennes, iu June or July 1656, while the eldest son, Frederic, Count of Schon- I'erg, a General iu Portugal (who, perhaps, from being settled in Germany, was G