290 MASTER-GENERAL ©F THE ORDNANCE IN IRELAND, 
It was not till July 2nd, 1789, that the London Gazette contained 
the formal notice of Montandre’s promotion to the Marshalate. The 
gallant veteran only lived until the 8th of the following month. His 
death and burial are thus chronicled in two contemporary London 
journals. 
Saturday, August llth, 1739.—* Wednesday about 4 o’clock in 
the afternoon, aged near 70, of a complication of distempers, 
at his house in Great Brook Street, Grosvenor Square, the 
Marquis de Montandre, Field-Marshal of England, Governor 
of Guernsey, Master of the Ordnance in Ireland and General 
of Foot. He was a Peer of France and came over here on 
account of his religion. He married the daughter of Baron 
Spanheim, formerly Envoy from the King of Prussia, by 
whom he had no issue. His corpse is to be interred in a 
grand manner in Westminster by that of his father-in-law.” 1 
Saturday, August 18th, 1739.—“ Wednesday the corpse of the 
Marquis de Montandre, after lying in state in the Jerusalem 
Chamber, was carried from thence and interred in great 
funeral pomp and solemnity with the remains of Baron 
Spanheim and his lady in a vault near King Henry VII.’s 
chapel, Westminster Abbey. ‘The whole choir attended at 
the ceremony. The Right Hon. Sir Paul Methuen, Knight 
of the Bath, walked as chief mourner.’”” 
The Marquis left no issue by his wife, who survived him many years. 
She was a well-known figure in London society and on more than 
one occasion entertained Royalty. The Marquis having only enjoyed 
the emolument from his Governorship of the island of Guernsey for one 
year, George II. was pleased to allow the Marquise to remain in 
possession of the salary from Guernsey for one year more. Various 
anecdotes concerning this lady will be found in the diaries and corres- 
pondence of the period. One of these anecdotes is worthy of being 
re-told. “‘Iremember,” wrote Walpole to Miss Berry, from Strawberry 
Hill, July 4th, 1791, “an old French refugee here, the Marquise de 
Montandre (the Mademoiselle Spanheim of the Spectator) who, on the 
strength of her pinchbeck Marquisat,? pretended to supersede our 
sterling countesses; but being sure of its not being allowed she thus 
entered her claim. When at a visit, tea was brought in; before the 
groom of the chambers could offer it to anybody, she called out, ‘I 
would not have any tea;’ and then, when she had thus saved her 
dignity, she said to him, after others had been served, ‘T have be- 
thought myself, I think I will have one cup.’” 
1 Read’s Weekly Journal. 
2 Ibid.—Sir Paul Methuen was for some years British Ambassador at Lisbon. 
3 This remark was not so ill-natured as it would appear at first reading. By French law a title 
reverts on the death of the eldest son without issue male to his youngest brother. On the death 
of Isaac Charles Marquis de Montandre in 1702 the heir, by French law, was not Francis de 
Montandre, but his younger brother. 
