Anne de Montmorency

More recently in Yvoy, Lord Julián Romero, made that rookie mistake of coming out to parley with the Constable only to find on his return the town already taken.

At the siege of Pavia, Grand Constable de Montmorency had been tasked with crossing the Ticino and setting up camp in the Sant’Antonio district.

de Guise nor much favor his reputation, are willing to have him thought to blame, and that his making a halt and delaying time with the forces he commanded, whilst the Constable, who was general of the army, was racked through and through with the enemy’s artillery, his battalion routed, and himself taken prisoner, is not to be excused;

witness the proceedings of Messieurs de Montmorency and de Biron, which are here omitted:

The lives of the last Duke of Alva, and of our Constable de Montmorency, were both of them great and noble, and that had many rare resemblances of fortune;