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LORRAINE. CHARLES IV (1604-1675) duc de Lorraine et de Bar.
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LORRAINE. CHARLES IV (1604-1675) duke of Lorraine and Bar.
L.A.S., "Brenne" [Braine] May 24, 1646, to the duke of AMALFI [the marshal
Ottavio PICCOLOMINI]| 2 pages in-fol, addressed.
Long military letter from the end of the Thirty Years' War, while the Duke is fighting with the Imperials in the Spanish Netherlands, alongside Piccolomini and Castel-Rodrigo.
"Having thought I could give my greetings this morning to Your Excellency and to Monsieur the Marquis of Castelle Rodriguo, I was riding in the carriage for this purpose when an officer of my troops who was sent up arrived who brought with him so much disquiet and insolence that if it were not remedied I would fear that the I fear that there will be great confusion, which obliges me to send them back to their home in a hurry, having lost all this morning in this despair, and as most of their soldiers have taken it upon themselves that I can no longer leave Brussels, being very ill and unable to return to them, The officers can no longer hold his scoundrels being held to extremes of insolence against their officers, as if they had no master, for the Lorrains having begun this dance several of them having been quartered, I thought it necessary not to dismiss his officers until I was in my quarters, which is why if Your Excellency and Monsieur le Marquis de Castelle Rodriguos thought it best that I go to Flores [Floreffe], near the Sambre I will make a rendezvous with you dou I will dismiss his officers and will have the head of some rascal that I had put in arest that will make the other wise men on the Moselle, and will learn that I am in the troops, If Monsieur le Marquis de Castelle Rodriguo and Your Excellency find it good I will use it in this way, and for the troops they will remain in desa de la Moeuze, where they will pass to join the others towards Bastogne or Market as
Your Excellencies will find it better, for myself I can return to
Brussels dicy or from the rendezvous but very assuredly, my troops and myself as well, [....] the troops are lost and I become so lazy, and so good bourjois of Brussels that I fear that I will not want to leave any more particularly if all the bourjoise that I have left there remain, but I fear that they do not follow the march of the large gun"...
Attached is a L.A.S., August 15, 1667, order to the commander of Bitche (1 page small in-4, address with broken red wax seal) to send a company| he warns the two cavalry companies to be on the alert, and if there is danger, they must go to "post themselves in safety near Limburg or Bitche. [...] I am bringing forward troops and I told my son that he should keep them in reserve and keep them on standby until all the marchers have joined"...
L.A.S., "Brenne" [Braine] May 24, 1646, to the duke of AMALFI [the marshal
Ottavio PICCOLOMINI]| 2 pages in-fol, addressed.
Long military letter from the end of the Thirty Years' War, while the Duke is fighting with the Imperials in the Spanish Netherlands, alongside Piccolomini and Castel-Rodrigo.
"Having thought I could give my greetings this morning to Your Excellency and to Monsieur the Marquis of Castelle Rodriguo, I was riding in the carriage for this purpose when an officer of my troops who was sent up arrived who brought with him so much disquiet and insolence that if it were not remedied I would fear that the I fear that there will be great confusion, which obliges me to send them back to their home in a hurry, having lost all this morning in this despair, and as most of their soldiers have taken it upon themselves that I can no longer leave Brussels, being very ill and unable to return to them, The officers can no longer hold his scoundrels being held to extremes of insolence against their officers, as if they had no master, for the Lorrains having begun this dance several of them having been quartered, I thought it necessary not to dismiss his officers until I was in my quarters, which is why if Your Excellency and Monsieur le Marquis de Castelle Rodriguos thought it best that I go to Flores [Floreffe], near the Sambre I will make a rendezvous with you dou I will dismiss his officers and will have the head of some rascal that I had put in arest that will make the other wise men on the Moselle, and will learn that I am in the troops, If Monsieur le Marquis de Castelle Rodriguo and Your Excellency find it good I will use it in this way, and for the troops they will remain in desa de la Moeuze, where they will pass to join the others towards Bastogne or Market as
Your Excellencies will find it better, for myself I can return to
Brussels dicy or from the rendezvous but very assuredly, my troops and myself as well, [....] the troops are lost and I become so lazy, and so good bourjois of Brussels that I fear that I will not want to leave any more particularly if all the bourjoise that I have left there remain, but I fear that they do not follow the march of the large gun"...
Attached is a L.A.S., August 15, 1667, order to the commander of Bitche (1 page small in-4, address with broken red wax seal) to send a company| he warns the two cavalry companies to be on the alert, and if there is danger, they must go to "post themselves in safety near Limburg or Bitche. [...] I am bringing forward troops and I told my son that he should keep them in reserve and keep them on standby until all the marchers have joined"...