* 1398 – Íñigo López de Mendoza, 1st Marquis of Santillana, Spanish politician and poet ( d. 1458 )

French ambassador Marquis de Bonnac being received by Sultan Ahmed III.

* 1655 – Alfonso de la Cueva, 1st Marquis of Bedmar, Spanish cardinal and diplomat ( b. 1572 )

A French reconnaissance under the Marquis de Silly went forward to probe the enemy, but were driven off by Allied troops who had deployed to cover the pioneers of the advancing army, labouring to bridge the numerous streams in the area and improve the passage leading westwards to Höchstädt.

In the woods to the left of Lutzingen, seven French battalions under the Marquis de Rozel moved into place.

The village of Oberglauheim was packed with 14 battalions commanded by the Marquis de Blainville ( including the effective Irish Brigade known as the ' Wild Geese ').

Nine battalions occupied the village itself, commanded by the Marquis de Clérambault.

The French commander in the village, the Marquis de Blainville, numbered amongst the heavy casualties.

The Marquis de Gruignan attempted a counter-attack, but he was easily brushed aside by the triumphant Allies.

However, it was not until 21: 00 that the Marquis de Blanzac, who had taken charge in Clérambault's absence, reluctantly accepted the inevitability of defeat, and some 10, 000 of France's best infantry had laid down their arms.

The 20 French and Bavarian battalions in Ramillies, supported by Irish dragoons and a small brigade of Cologne and Bavarian Guards under the Marquis de Maffei, put up a determined defence, initially driving back the attackers with severe losses.

The Marquis de Feuquières writing after the battle described the scene – " They advanced in four lines … As they approached they advanced their second and fourth lines into the intervals of their first and third lines ; so that when they made their advance upon us, they formed only one front, without any intermediate spaces.

The Marquis de Maffei attempted one last stand with his Bavarian and Cologne Guards, but it proved in vain.

" Meanwhile, Overkirk took the port of Ostend on 4 July thus opening a direct route to the English Channel for communication and supply, but the Allies were making scant progress against Dendermonde whose governor, the Marquis de Valée, was stubbornly resisting.

The town was retaken by the Duke of Savoy in 1630 ; and in 1691 it was captured by the troops of the Marquis de Vins during the War of the League of Augsburg.

And though, on orders from the hanging Committee and the Marquis de Chennevières, Pissarro's paintings of Pontoise for example had been skyed, hung near the ceiling, this did not prevent Jules-Antoine Castagnary from noting that the qualities of his paintings had been observed by art lovers.

* The 120 Days of Sodom, a novel by the Marquis de Sade, is replete with detailed descriptions of erotic sadomasochistic coprophagia.

The earliest record of somnambulistic clairvoyance is credited to the Marquis de Puységur, a follower of Mesmer, who in 1784 was treating a local dull-witted peasant named Victor Race.

* 1776 – Marquis de Lafayette arranges to enter the American military as a major general.

* 1814 – Marquis de Sade, French writer ( b. 1740 )

In 1824 Poe served as the lieutenant of the Richmond youth honor guard as Richmond celebrated the visit of the Marquis de Lafayette.

He was " one of the first Esprits cavaliers of the age ," a man of broad knowledge, an expert in Newtonianism, architecture and music and a friend of most of the leading authors of his times: Voltaire, Jean-Baptiste de Boyer, Marquis d ' Argens, Pierre-Louis de Maupertuis and the atheïst Julien Offray de La Mettrie.

Despite ordering a cease fire, which prevented a mutual massacre, Governor Marquis Bernard de Launay was beaten, stabbed and decapitated ; his head was placed on a pike and paraded about the city.

Johnson's expedition was better organized than Shirley's, which was noticed by New France's governor, the Marquis de Vaudreuil.

In 1755, following the Battle of Lake George, the Marquis de Vaudreuil, the governor of the French Province of Canada, sent his cousin Michel Chartier de Lotbinière to design and construct a fortification at this militarily important site, which the French called Fort Carillon.

Among the censuses of the 18th century was the special Census of 1778, imposed by the governor of the time, D. Juan de Torrezar Diaz Pimienta – later Viceroy of New Granada – by order of the Marquis of Ensenada, Minister of Finance – so that he would be provided numbers for his Catastro tax project, which imposed a universal property tax he believed would contribute to the economy while at the same time increasing royal revenues dramatically.

Although appointed by the king, the governor reported to the lieutenant general of police: the first of these, Gabriel Nicolas de la Reynie, made only occasional visits to the Bastille, but his successor, Marquis d ' Argenson, and subsequent officers used the facility extensively and took a close interest in inspections of the prison.

* Cesar Romero as Marquis Andre de Lage, the French governor of the island

As early as March, Louis-Joseph de Montcalm, the commanding general responsible of the French forces in North America, and the Marquis de Vaudreuil, New France's governor, were aware that the British were planning to send large numbers of troops against them, and that they would have relatively little support from King Louis XV of France.

It was named after the Marquis de La Jonquière, governor of New France from 1749 to 1752.

Now that the defence of the Spanish Netherlands depended almost wholly on the Allies William III insisted on replacing its Spanish governor, the Marquis of Gastañaga, with the Elector of Bavaria, thus overcoming delays in getting decisions from Madrid.

In 221, Ma Chao was appointed " General of Agile Cavalry " ( 驃騎將軍 ) and governor of Liang Province, and received the title of " Marquis of Lixiang " ( 斄鄉侯 ).

Joseph-François, Marquis Dupleix ( 1 January 1697 – 10 November 1763 ) was governor general of the French establishment in India, and the rival of Robert Clive.

In 1687 the governor of New France, the Marquis de Denonville, launched an attack against Seneca villages in what is now western New York.

The fort was soon destroyed, and rebuilt in 1669, when Louis XIV appointed the Marquis of Baas as governor general.

The first surviving records of the masked prisoner are from late July 1669, when Louis XIV's minister the Marquis de Louvois sent a letter to Bénigne Dauvergne de Saint-Mars, governor of the prison of Pignerol, then part of France.

From the year 1665 the colony had been successfully administered by three men: Daniel de Rémy de Courcelle, the governor, Jean Talon, the intendant, and the Marquis de Tracy, who had been appointed lieutenant general for the French king in America ; but a difference of opinion had arisen between the governor and the intendant, and each had demanded the others recall in the public interest.

However, the emperor decided not to appoint him as governor of New Spain but rather simply as the Marquis of the Valley of Oaxaca.

While the French had a tactical victory in the Battle of Sainte-Foy outside Quebec in 1760, attempts to resupply the military were dashed in the naval Battle of the Restigouche, and the Marquis de Vaudreuil, New France's last Royal governor, surrendered Montreal on 8 September 1760.

* 1666-During the autumn, the soldier of Carignan-Salières, led by Alexandre de Prouville, the " Marquis de Tracy " and the governor, invade the Iroquois territory to the south, burn their villages and destroy their crops.

* 1726-Charles de la Boische, Marquis de Beauharnois from Orléans, France is made governor of New France.

* 1755-Pierre François de Rigaud, Marquis de Vaudreuil-Cavagnal becomes governor of New France.

Rather than defend the fort, de Bourlamaque, operating under instructions from General Louis-Joseph de Montcalm and New France's governor, the Marquis de Vaudreuil, withdrew his forces, and attempted to blow up the fort.

Instructions from Montcalm and New France's governor, the Marquis de Vaudreuil, to de Bourlamaque were to hold Carillon as long as possible, then to destroy it, as well as the nearby Fort St. Frédéric, before retreating toward Montreal.

* Jacques-Pierre de Taffanel de la Jonquière, Marquis de la Jonquière was appointed governor general of New France on March 1, 1746, ( b April 18, 1685 – d March 17, 1752 )