Schomberg

Schomberg, FREDERICK HERMANN, DUKE OF, was born in 1618 of an ancient house taking its name from its castle of Schönburg on the Rhine, and fought against the Imperialists in the Thirty Years' War. Entering the French service in 1650, he conducted a successful campaign in Spain, was naturalised in France, and, though a Protestant, obtained a marshal's baton in 1675. On the revocation of the Edict of Nantes in 1685, after some unimportant work done for the House of Brandenburg and the Elector Palatine, he accepted the post of second in command under the Prince of Orange in the English expedition. The new king made him K.G., duke, and master of the ordnance, and gave him command of the army in Ireland in 1689. Wintering in Ulster, he joined William III. in 1690, and fought and fell in the battle of the Boyne (1st July). His son Meinhart commanded the right wing, and was made Duke of Leinster. But in the war of the Spanish succession he was recalled as inefficient for his command, and died childless in 1709, the title dying with him. The fourth Marquis of Lothian married a granddaughter of the first Duke of Schomberg.