Henri de Schomberg (1575 - 17 November 1632).Marshall Henri de Schomberg and Toiras vanquishing the English army of Buckingham at the end of the siege. Michel de la Mathonière, 1627.Schomberg presenting English captives to the King.
Henri de Schomberg, Comte de Nanteuil (1575 – 17 November 1632), was a Marshal of France during the reign of Louis XIII.[1]
In 1628, Schomberg rescued Toiras in the Siege of Saint-Martin-de-Ré with an army of 6,000 men and some cavalry.[2] Together with Toiras he pursued the retreated English army of the Duke of Buckingham, with great loss being sustained by the latter.[2]
Disraeli, Isaac (1851). Commentaries on the life and reign of Charles the First, king of England. Vol. 1. A & W Galignani. p. 114.
Glozier, Matthew (2005). Marshal Schomberg 1615-1690, 'the ablest soldier of his age': international soldiering and the formation of state armies in seventeenth-century Europe. Sussex Academic Press. ISBN1-903900-60-3.