Military Commander. He received recognition as an adventurous 17th century military man. Born Friedrich Hermann Von Schönberg, an only son in a noble family, his mother died giving him birth and he was nine months old when his father died. He attended Leyden University, starting in 1633 for two years. He learned to speak German, Latin, French, Dutch, English and Portuguese. At that point, he became a German soldier of fortune with an outstanding career including a marshal of France, and an English peer, who fought in the service of various countries in the major European wars between 1634 and 1690. He first served in Sweden and Denmark before serving in the French military. Eventually, he held the position of Marshal of France. He fought in the Thirty-year War in Europe and in 1639 he went to Holland for at least ten years of service, before returning to France. In 1660 he organized a Portuguese army against Spain. In 1668, he resumed an earlier position in the French army, becoming naturalized as a Frenchman. He inherited an estate in Germany and built another in Paris. Being a protestant, he was expelled from France around 1685, losing his estate and other belongings. He was made a naturalized English subject in April of 1689, was given the Garter, and in May was created the 1st Duke of Schomberg, the Baron of Teyes, Earl of Brentford, and Marquess of Harwich. He was reimbursed £100,000 from his losses in France. Since he was a well-respected military scholar, the "Duke of Schomberg" was appointed Commander-in-Chief in Ireland by King William III, where one of his first actions was to raise the siege of Derry. Before going into combat, he returned his reimbursed money to William III in exchange for an improved army. A 73-year-old widower, he was killed in action by the Irish Cavalry at the Battle of the Boyne in Ireland, ending an over-fifty-year military career. Schomberg's first marriage was in 1638 to his cousin, Johanna Elizabeth von Schönberg, who died in 1664. They had five sons who survived to manhood, including Meinhardt Schomberg, 3rd Duke of Schomberg, Duke of Leinster, who was a soldier and fought alongside his father at the Battle of Boyne. His son Charles Schomberg, 2nd Duke of Schomberg died in combat in 1683. In 1669, he married Susanne d'Aumale, the daughter of a prominent French Huguenot, who died in 1688 childless. Throughout his career, he had several portraits painted, showing his long hair and military armor. His marker was erected by friends and admirers with the epitaph written in Latin by Jonathan Swift, the Anglo-Irish poet. He is considered a military hero to the Protestant Irish.