Comte de Troisville

Jean-Armand du Peyrer
Portrait of the Comte de Tréville by Le Nain, which had been hanging in the salon of Troisvilles Castle near to Tardets. Sold by 1954 in Paris, this portrait is now in private collection.
Nicknames	Comte de Troisville Tréville Monsieur de Tréville
Born	1598 Oloron-Sainte-Marie, Bearn, Gascony, France
Died	May 8, 1672(1672-05-08) (aged 73–74) Trois-Villes, Sola, France
Allegiance	Kingdom of France
Branch	French Royal Army
Service years	1616 – 1646
Rank	Captain
Commands	King's Musketeers
Known for	Being captain of the Muskeeters
Conflicts	French Wars of Religion Siege of La Rochelle Thirty Years War
Spouse	Anne de Guillon des Essarts
Children	Armand Jean Joseph Henry
Relations	Armand d'Athos (first cousin) Isaac de Porthau (brother-in-law) Henri d'Aramitz (first cousin)
3rd Captain of the King's Musketeers
In office 1634–1646
Monarchs	Louis XIII Louis XIV
Regent	Anne of Austria
Chief Minister	Cardinal Richelieu Cardinal Mazarin
Secretary of State of the Maison du Roi	Antoine de Loménie Henri-Auguste de Loménie Henri de Guénégaud
Secretary of State for War	Abel Servien François Sublet Michel Le Tellier
Preceded by	Jean de Vieilchastel
Succeeded by	Position abolished Philippe Jules Mancini (1657)

Jean-Armand du Peyrer, Comte de Troisville (or Tresville) (1598 – 8 May 1672) was a French officer. He was fictionalised under the name Monsieur de Tréville in Alexandre Dumas's 1844 novel The Three Musketeers.

Biography

Origins

Du Peyrer was born at Oloron-Sainte-Marie. He was not from aristocratic stock, but of recent nobility. It was his father, Jean du Peyrer, who introduced the name de Trois-villes or Tréville into the family. In 1607 he bought the region of Trois-Villes which effectively brought him nobility, according to the customs of the Basque Country at the time. This purchase also allowed the elder Du Peyrer the right to be considered a gentleman and to sit upon the council of gentlemen in the viscountcy of Soule. He died at Trois-Villes.