David Carnegie Andrew Agnew

“ At the battle of La Caya in 1709, the Portuguese brought on an action against the Spaniards against Lord Galway’s advice, and their cavalry of the right wing fled, abandoning their cannon to the enemy. ”

“ My Lord thinks he has served well and deserves well to have a regiment.” The annalist says that the Marquis “who was a Major-General in the service of Portugal, and was made a Major-General in the English establishment, in consideration of his faithful and eminent services in Spain, set out in order to embark for that kingdom (from whence he had been sent by the Earl of Galway to represent the state of affairs there) ; having received a handsome present from her Majesty.” He was specially instructed to urge upon Lord Galway to continue in his high command in Spain. ”

“ The fourth was Charles, styled Marquis De Montandre; he was the father of Charles Louis, second Marquis, and the grandfather of the refugee. The refugee’s mother was Madeline Anne Pithou, daughter of Pierre, Seigneur De Luyeres. Francois was the second son, but his elder brother, Isaac Charles, died without issue, 15th August 1702, when the refugee assumed the title of Marquis. His next younger brother, Louis, a captain in the French navy, was by French law the head of the family, and the true Marquis, but he died childless. ”

“ Victor at Paris. [1] But he became a convert to the religion of the open Bible, and fled to England, at what time does not exactly appear. We find him in Cambon’s, afterwards Marton’s, regiment, with a commission of Lieutenant-Colonel, dated 15th February 1693; he is called Francois Dc Montandre. We meet him as Colonel Montandre on October 3-14, 1701, receiving a pension of £200 per annum on the Irish establishment, for life.
Through the interest of the Earl of Galway, he was enrolled in the British army as a Brigadier in 1704, and he accompanied his patriotic chief to Portugal. ”

“ His bride was Mary Ann Spanheim, only daughter of Ezekiel, Baron de Spanheim, Ambassador Extraordinary from the King of Prussia, and grand-daughter to the elder Frederick Spanheim, Divinity Professor, latterly at Leyden, but, at the date of Ezekiel’s birth, at Geneva. ”

“ The Montandre branch had been Protestant, but the apostacy of Isaac, the third baron, made it a Romanist family. The refugee was born in September 1672. He was educated in Popery, and was a Regular Canon in the Abbey of St. ”