henri duke de rohan

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Definition of henri duke de rohan in English English dictionary

born 1579, Château of Blain, Brittany, France died April 13, 1638, Königsfeld, Switz. French Huguenot leader. At age 16 he entered the army of Henry IV, who made him a peer of France in 1603. After Henry's death (1610), Rohan led the Huguenots in revolt against the government of Marie de Médicis (1615-16) and became the Huguenots' foremost general in the civil wars of the 1620s. He recounted the events of the War of La Rochelle (1627-29) in his celebrated Mémoires. He then went to Venice. After his return to France (1635), he successfully commanded a French expedition against the Habsburgs in Lombardy. In 1637 he went to Switzerland, where he died in the Thirty Years' War battle at Rheinfelden

Hyphenation

Hen·ri Duke de rohan

Turkish pronunciation

henri duk dı rōın

Pronunciation

/ˈhenrē ˈdo͞ok də ˈrōən/ /ˈhɛnriː ˈduːk də ˈroʊən/