Régiment Royal des Vaisseaux

Régiment Royal des Vaisseaux
Ordnance Colors of the Régiment Royal des Vaisseaux
Active 1638 - 1794
Country France
Allegiance Kingdom of France
Type Regiment
Role Line Infantry

The Régiment Royal des Vaisseaux was an infantry regiment of the Kingdom of France created in 1638.

Lineage

  • March 13, 1638 : creation of Régiment des Vaisseaux
  • February 3, 1640 : Régiment des Vaisseaux-Richelieu
  • March 10, 1644:[1] Régiment des Vaisseaux-Mazarin
  • June 25, 1650 : Régiment des Vaisseaux-Candale
  • April 11, 1658:[2] Régiment des Vaisseaux-Mazarin
  • March 15, 1661:[3] Régiment des Vaisseaux-Provence
  • September 20, 1669 : designated again as Régiment Royal des Vaisseaux (alias Royal-Vaisseaux)
  • January 1, 1791 : designated as 43rd Line Infantry Regiment
  • April 16, 1794 : the 1st battalion was reformed by incorporation to the 85th Battle Demi-Brigade (French: 85e demi-brigade de bataille) during the formation of the demi-brigade.
  • 1794 : reformation, the 2nd battalion being incorporated to the 86th Battle Demi-Brigade (French: 86e demi-brigade de bataille) during the formation of the demi-brigade.

Equipment

9 regimental colors out of which 1 "white" Colonel and 8 of Ordinance «, yellow, green, red and black by opposition, & white cross filled with golden Fleur-de-lis and a golden ship in the middle of each cross ».[4]

Regimental Colors

Uniform

History

Colonels and mestres de camp

  • March 13, 1638: Henri d’Escoubleau de Sourdis, † 18 June 1645
  • February 3, 1640: Armand-Jean du Plessis, Cardinal de Richelieu, † 4 December 1642
  • March 10, 1644: Jules Cardinal Mazarin, † 9 March 1661
  • June 25, 1650: Louis-Charles de Nogaret de Foix, Duke of Candale, † 1658
  • March 15, 1661: Louis, Duke of Vendôme, Duke of Mercœur then Duke of Vendôme in 1665, became commander of the Armée de Provence on April 8, 1652 and commander of the Armée de Lombardie on April 26, 1656, † August 6, 1669
  • September 20, 1667: Alexandre Le Bret
  • March 29, 1679: Louis Potier de Gesvres, Marquis de Gandelus, born November 19, 1660, Brigadier on August 27, 1688, † April 18, 1689
  • April 24, 1689: Louis, Count of Mailly, Brigadier on 25 April 1691, mestre de camp général of dragons on April 29, 1692, maréchal de camp on March 30, 1693, † April 6, 1699 (aged 37 years 5 months)
  • April 29, 1692: René, Marquis de Névet
  • June 16, 1699: Armée de Montvalat, Chevalier d’Entragues
  • March 1, 1702: Isaac Charles de La Rochefoucaud, Count of Montendre,[5] brigadier on January 29, 1702, † August 15, 1702
  • August 27, 1702: Louis de Régnier, Marquis de Guerchy, baptized on May 18, 1663, Brigadier on January 29, 1702, Maréchal de camp on October 26, 1704, Lieutenant-général of the Armies of the King (French: lieutenant général des armées du roi) on March 29, 1710, † February 13, 1748
  • June 14, 1705: Thomas Le Gendre de Collandre, Brigadier on March 29, 1710, Maréchal de camp on February 1, 1719, † May 1, 1738 (65 years of age)
  • March 6, 1719: Pierre Aimé de Guiffrey, Chevalier then Count of Marcieu, Brigadier of infantry on April 3, 1721, Maréchal de camp on August 1, 1734, Lieutenant-general of the Armies of the King (French: lieutenant général des armées du roi) on February 20, 1743
  • November 25, 1734: Claude Louis François de Régnier, Count of Guerchy, born August 1, 1715, Brigadier on February 20, 1743, Maréchal de camp on June 1, 1745, Lieutenant-general of the Armies of the King (French: lieutenant général des armées du roi) on March 10, 1748
  • May 26, 1745: Jean-Baptiste Charles Hubert d’Esparbès de Lussan, Chevalier d’Aubeterre
  • February 21, 1746: Louis Henri d’Esparbès de Lussan, Count of Aubeterre-La-Serre
  • August 7, 1747: François Emery de Durfort, Count of Civrac, Brigadier on May 1758, declared maréchal de camp on November 1761 while brevetted on February 20
  • November 30, 1761: Anne Pierre, Marquis de Montesquiou, born October 17, 1739, † December 30, 1798
  • July 28, 1773: Charles Pierre Hyacinthe, Count of Ossun
  • March 10, 1788: Frédéric Séraphin de La Tour du Pin-Paulin, Marquis de Gouvernet
  • October 21, 1791: Joseph Marie Rogon de Kerkaradec
  • May 16, 1792: Anselme de Sicard
  • September 4, 1792: François Vergès

Campaign and battles

43rd Line Infantry Regiment

The 1st battalion participated in campaigns from 1792 to 1794 with the Army of the North (France) (French: armée du Nord), the 2nd battalion within the same years with the Army of the Ardennes (French: armée des Ardennes).

See also

References

  1. ↑ de Poli, p. 17
  2. ↑ de Poli, p. 24
  3. ↑ de Poli, p. 28
  4. ↑ Cinquième abrégé général du militaire de France, sur terre et sur mer, Lemau de la Jaisse, Paris, 1739
  5. ↑ Le 1er mars 1702: on sut que Sa Majesté avoit donné le régiment des Vaisseaux au marquis de Montendre. (March 1, 1702: it became known that His Majesty had given the Régiment des Vaisseaux to the Marquis de Montendre." See the memoir of the Marquis de Souches on the reign of Louis XIV, volume 7.
  6. ↑ ([[#CITEREF|]], p. 14).

Sources and bibliographies

  • Chronologie historique-militaire, par M. Pinard, tomes 1, 4, 5, 6, 7 et 8, Paris 1760, 1761, 1762, 1763, 1764 et 1768
  • Oscar de Poli, Un Régiment d'autrefois, Royal-Vaisseaux (1638-1792), Conseil héraldique de France (Paris), year 1885, total pages 234
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