Louis Gallucio de L'Hôpital.

About Louis Gallucio de L'Hôpital

Louis de L'Hôpital, marquis de Vitry was a French noble, governor, military commander and rebel during the latter French Wars of Religion. The son of François de l'Hôpital and Anne de La Châtre, Vitry found himself drawn into the opposition to the king in the early 1580s affiliating with the king's brother Alençon. In this capacity he served under the command of his maternal uncle Claude de La Châtre In 1584 the king successfully detached him, and made Vitry into a royal favourite, granting him the honour of being made a chevalier de l'Ordre de Saint-Michel, before appointing him the governor of Dourdan and lieutenant of the royal hunt.