Biron
CHARLES DE GONTAUT, DUC DE, born in 1562, was Admiral and Marshal of France, and is noted for the friendship which Henry IV. entertained for him, and for his treason toward that monarch. He made his first essays in war under his father, and covered himself with glory at the battles of Arques and Ivry, and at the sieges of Paris and Rouen, by which he acquired the surname of ""Thunderbolt of France." The King loaded him with honors, saved his life at the fight of Fontaine Française, and made him ambassador to England. Biron entered into a conspiracy with Spain and Savoy against his sovereign; and the plot being revealed by Lafin, who had been its instigator, he was beheaded in 1602.