Charles-Auguste de Goyon

Charles Auguste de Goyon, Count of Gacé (1647–1729), was the French soldier, diplomat and Marshal of France from 1693 after which he was known as the Maréchal de Matignon.

Biography The youngest son of François de Goyon, sieur of Matignon (died 1675) by his wife Anne de Malon,he descended from the ancient noble Norman Bricquebec family.

He fought in the Siege of Candia (1669) and the Franco-Dutch War (1672-1678). In 1689, he was sent to Ireland to support King James II of England in the Williamite War in Ireland.

A career soldier, Goÿon rose to become Governor of Aunis (1688), maréchal de camp (1691), before being appointed Field Marshal (1708). In that year, he was sent as Ambassador to Great Britain, but returned after the aborted French invasion of Britain (1708) to participate in the Battle of Oudenarde. He received the Order of the Holy Spirit in 1724 and died in 1729.