and two remained there — killed in the storming of Jerusalem. 

 True to the family traditions, his father, Jean de Monts, baron 

 of Cabrairolles in Languedoc, near Beziers, served in the 

 army "from his earliest youth," was successively Ensign or 

 standard-bearer. Lieutenant, Captain of Arquebusiers, and 

 finally "Mestre de Camp" in 1586, with five hundred standard- 

 bearers under him. 



A Huguenot, he fought under Coligny in the defeat of 

 Moncontour, then under Henry IV in the victories of Coutras 

 and Ivry. He took part afterward in the capture of St. Denis 

 and was wounded — for the second time severely — at the 

 siege of Eperney, in 1592, dying two years later of his wounds. 

 He was a typical soldier of his time and station, one of those 

 of whom Sismondi wrote: "The King (Henry IV) counted in 

 his cavalry five thousand men of birth ( gentilshommes) whose 

 courage was sustained by a personal sense of honor, and who 

 were superior to all other cavalry." 



He married, on the 20th day of May, 1572, Delphine de 

 Latenay, daughter of the noble Antoine, "ancien Capitaine," 

 and of Marguerite de la Mairie. His oldest son, Jean, suc- 

 ceeded him as baron of Cabrairolles. Pierre, his second son, 

 who came out to America, was seigneur of Guast and governor 

 of Pons, one of the Huguenot places of security established by 

 Henry IV, who, Champlain tells us, had "great confidence in 

 him for his fidelity and the good services he had rendered 

 him in the (recent) wars." And governor of Pons he still 

 remains, apparently, when we catch our last glimpse of him in 

 Champlain's pages, after Henry's death, though the tide had 

 then set strongly against the Huguenots, and Pons was pres- 

 ently to be dismantled of its protecting walls by Henry's 

 son, Louis XIII. 



Pons itself, its relation to the Huguenots and de Monts apart, 

 is an interesting old city of the feudal times whose powerful 

 lords, the Sires de Pons, were sovereign princes in their region, 

 descended from the dukes of Aquitaine. They made war, 

 signed treaties, and received the King of France as "cousin," 

 claiming the sword he wore that day whenever they paid hom- 



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