page_title: Garde du Corps (France)
section_title: 4th Company (3rd French Company)
hierarchical_section_title: Garde du Corps (France) / Organization / 4th Company (3rd French Company)
caption_attribution_description: Standard of the 3ème Compagnie Française of the French Gardes du Corps. Created by PMPdeL. N.B.: since there was a 1ère Compagnie Écossaise which had precedence over the 1ère Compagnie Française, some authors designate the 3ème Compagnie Française simply as the 4ème Compagnie (overall ranking). Courtesy of Kronoskaf. Licensing
context_page_description: The Gardes-du-Corps was the senior formation of the King of France's Household Cavalry within the Maison militaire du roi de France.
context_section_description: Upon his accession to the throne, Francis I possessed a company which was commanded by a lieutenant-captain, Raoul de Vernon, Lord of Montreuilbouyn. He also had a personal guard commanded by Louis Leroy de Chavigny. Wishing to have five companies of the bodyguards, all organized on the foot of the Scottish company, he transformed in 1515, as it was said above, the two companies of archers of the small guard of Louis XI, and added two others trained with his personal guards and with detachments of companies of archers of Crussol and La Chatre.
  In 1545 he remodeled the organization of the bodyguards, and he kept only four companies. The 4th company had its yellow flags, shoulder straps and crews. She served the Court from October 1st to December 31st, and was usually quartered in Dreux.
  Captains/Chefs de corps:
  1553 : Louis d'Humières de Contay
  1557 : Philippe de Maillé-Brézé, vicomte de Verneuil
  1575 : Nicolas de La Haulle, seigneur de Grémonville
  1592 : Jacques-Nompar de Caumont, Duke of La Force
  1632-1651 : Antoine d'Aumont de Rochebaron, Duke of Aumont, marquis de Villequier, Captain of the Gardes-du-Corps of Louis XIII
  1651-1669 : Louis Marie Victor d'Aumont de Rochebaron, Duke of Aumont, marquis de Villequier, Captain of the Gardes-du-Corps of Louis XIV
  1669-1675 : Henri Louis d'Aloigny, marquis de Rochefort, Captain of the Garde-du-Corps of Louis XIV
  1676-1696 : Guy Aldonce II de Durfort, comte de Lorges, Duke of Quintin, Maréchal de France (1676)
  1696-1702 : Guy Nicolas de Durfort, Duke of Lorges
  1703-1718 : Henry d'Harcourt, Duke of Harcourt
  1718-1750 : François d'Harcourt, Duke of Harcourt
  1750-1764 : Charles II Frédéric de Montmorency, Duke of Piney-Luxembourg
  1764-1784 : Charles François Christian de Montmorency-Luxembourg, prince de Tingry
  1784-1790 : Anne Paul Emmanuel Sigismond de Montmorency-Luxembourg, prince de Luxembourg
  1790-1790 : Anne Christian de Montmorency-Luxembourg, Duke of Beaumont
  1815 : Pierre Louis François Paultre de Lamotte (1774-1840), maréchal de camp, commandant of the 4th Company of the Gardes-du-Corps (Luxembourg)
caption: Standard of the 4th Company of the Gardes-du-Corps du Roi
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