Marshal of France

military distinction in contemporary France

20 dated entries naming Marshal of France, drawn from 18 separate years between 1391 CE and 1952 CE. Nothing here is written by us: each line is the sentence a Wikipedia year article used, and the link beside it opens the exact revision.

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14th century

  • 1391December 25 – Jean II Le Maingre is named as the Marshal of France by King Charles V in a ceremony at the cathedral of St. Martin at Tours. Lalande, Denis, Jean II le Meingre, dit Boucicaut: (1366–1421) - étude d'une biographie héroïque, Genève 1988.source

15th century

  • 1403October 7 – Battle of Modon: The Genoese fleet under Jean Le Maingre (Marshal Boucicaut) is defeated by the Republic of Venice, at Modon in the Peloponnese.source
  • 14037 October – Battle of Modon: The Genoese fleet under Jean Le Maingre (Marshal Boucicaut) is defeated by the Republic of Venice, at Modon in the Peloponnese.source
  • 1418Unknown – Philippe de Crèvecœur d'Esquerdes, Marshal of France (died 1494)source
  • 1435Unknown – Jean de Baudricourt, Marshal of France (died 1499)source
  • 1485André de Laval-Montmorency, Marshal of France (born c.1408)source

16th century

  • 1512January 15 – Robert IV de La Marck, Duke of Bouillon, Seigneur of Sedan and a Marshal of France (died 1556)source
  • 1556November 4 – Robert IV de La Marck, Duke of Bouillon, Seigneur of Sedan and a Marshal of France (b.1512)source
  • 1575Henri de Schomberg, Marshall of France (d.1632)source

17th century

  • 1614April 2 – Henri de Montmorency, 3rd Duke of Montmorency, Marshal of France (born 1534)source
  • 1695January 4 – François-Henri de Montmorency, duc de Luxembourg, Marshal of France (born 1628)source

18th century

  • 1757October 21 – Charles-Pierre Augereau, Marshal of France and duc de Castiglione (died 1816)source
  • 1763January 26 – Jean-Baptiste Bernadotte, Marshal of France, King Charles XIV John of Sweden and Charles III John of Norway (died 1844)source
  • 1773April 4 – Étienne Maurice Gérard, Prime Minister and Marshal of France (died 1852)source
  • 1773December 17 – Sylvain Charles Valée, Marshal of France (died 1846)source
  • 1784October 15 – Thomas Robert Bugeaud, Marshal of France and duke of Isly (died 1849)source

19th century

  • 1810August 21 – Jean Baptiste Bernadotte, Marshal of France, is elected Crown Prince of Sweden, by the Swedish Riksdag of the Estates.source
  • 1846August 16 – Sylvain Charles Valée, Marshal of France (born 1773)source
  • 1889February 2 – Jean de Lattre de Tassigny, French general, posthumous Marshal of France (died 1952)source

20th century

  • 1952January 11 – Jean de Lattre de Tassigny, French general, posthumous Marshal of France (born 1889)source

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