Flags Carried By French Infantry Regiment Robecque Walloon; St Vallier 1688-1714

This was another French infantry regiment captured at Blenheim and is no.128 in my list of French infantry flag sets...

First raised 24th October 1688 by Philippe-Marie de Montmorency, Prince de Robecque 

Hall says: "The red/isabelle colours match the arms of Montmorency."

Service:
1688 Army of the Alps
1690 Battle of Staffarde
1691 Conquest of Nice

1691 13th December given to Charles de Montmorency, Prince de Robecque, brother of the previous colonel

1693 Battle of La Marsaglia
1696-1697 Army of the Rhine
1701 Army of Germany
1702 Battle of Friedlingen
1703 Siege of Breisach; then put into garrison there
1704 Army of Bavaria; taken prisoner at the battle of Blenheim

1704 26th October given to the Comte de Saint-Vallier [who was captured at Blenheim]

1705 Prisoners exchanged
1706 Army of Flanders; battle of Ramillies
1708 Defence of Lille; battle of Oudenarde
1709 Defence of Tournai; taken prisoner there and exchanged the same year
1710-1714 In garrisons in Flanders

1714 7th April Given to Henri-Bernard de la Croix, Chevalier de Saint-Vallier, brother of the previous colonel

1714 15th November "reformed" (Susane) - disbanded (Hall)!

There is also some confusion with another possible flag design carried by the regiment when commended by the Comte de Saint-Vallier.

The uniform is unknown.

Two More Troop Standards of the English Royal Regiment of Horse 1685

For further information see the previous post here: https://nba-sywtemplates.blogspot.com/2025/01/troop-standard-of-english-royal.html So that is now five troop standards of this regiment 1685 that I have posted.

 

Flags Carried By French Infantry Regiment Aunis 1684-1749

I created these over three years ago but have only just done the write up; there is a link with some recent French flags as this was one of the infantry regiments captured at Blenheim in 1704. There are now 127 French infantry flag sets (actually more as some include variants!) on the blog.

First raised 1684 and given to Armand-Scipion-Sidoine-Apollinaire-Gaspard, Vicomte de Polignac. One battalion strong.

Service (from Susane):

1692 Army of Flanders; siege of Namur; battle of Steenkirken
1693 Served on the coasts
1694 Army of Italy
1695 Army of Catalonia
1696 Army of Italy; siege of Valenza
1697 Army of the Meuse
1702 Army of the Rhine; battle of Friedlingen where the colonel was wounded
1703 Siege of Breisach; siege of Landau; battle of Speyerbach

1704 Given to Charles Hugues, Comte de Lyonne

1704 Army of Bavaria; battle of Hochstedt [Blenheim]; one of seven regiments taken prisoner in the village of Blenheim [Iain Stanford's Marlborough Goes To War tells us the regiment was 2 battalions strong at Blenheim]
1706 Exchanged
1706-1710 Served on the Rhine

1710 Given to Henri-Antoine-Thomas, Chevalier de Brancas-Courbon

1711 Army of Flanders; combat of Arleux
1712 Battle of Denain; capture of Douai, Du Quesnoy and Bouchain

Given 1734 to the Comte de Chatellux

1739-1740 Campaigning in Corsica

1742 Army of Flanders

1743 Given to César-François de Beauvoir, Marquis de Chatellux

1745 Army of the Lower Rhine

1745 Given to François-Emery de Durfort, Comte de Civrac

1746 Army of Flanders; siege of Mons; siege of Charleroi; siege of Namur; battle of Rocoux; to Provence for the relief of Antibes
1747 Battle of the Assiette; the colonel was badly wounded there

1747 Given to Michel-Armand, Marquis de Broc

1747-1748 Served in the Alps to the peace

1749; grenadiers to the Grenadiers de France and the rest incorporated in the Regiment of Languedoc

And this was the uniform in the 1740s:

 

Colours of the Huguenot Red And White Regiments 1690s, after the McNally Aughrim Book

As I quoted in my earlier post on the blue colours of Colonel Cambon's Huguenot Infantry Regiment (here: https://nba-sywtemplates.blogspot.com/2025/10/colours-of-colonel-du-cambons-huguenot.html ), "Interestingly, McNally refers to the three Huguenot infantry regiments as the Red, White and Blue regiments of foot (frustratingly with no mention of source for that statement). On the basis that, in the English Civil War, units so called had flags of the corresponding colours, and that it rarely referred to uniform colours, does that mean that it is possible that the three Huguenot infantry regiments had red, white and blue flags? If Cambon's flags were blue, which of La Melonière's and Belcastel's had white or red?"

So here are my versions of the colours of the Red and White Huguenot Regiments, which you can allocate to the regiments of Melonière and Belcastel as you see fit, in the absence of any definitive evidence about which carried which! (If anyone does know, please tell me!)

In the White Regiment colours we do have the heraldic solecism of a metal on a metal, with the gold fleurs de lys on white, but this is common on French flags of the 17th and 18th centuries so I see no special problem with that. Flagmakers often took liberties with the old rules of heraldry.

I interpret the flags on the Jan Wyck painting rather differently from McNally and will post my versions soon.