Background
He descended from the dynasty of the seigneurs of Louisiana Vieuville and was the son of Robert, seigneur de Louisiana Vieuville.
He descended from the dynasty of the seigneurs of Louisiana Vieuville and was the son of Robert, seigneur de Louisiana Vieuville.
Being a grandnephew to a finance minister of both Henry III and Henry IV he had good connections at court. He started his career being Captain of the Garde Écossaise, where he quickly rose to favour of the king, so that already in 1619 he became a knight of the king"s orders. As the year 1623 passed, the king (who always sought an effective model of governance) found virtually all his major advisors (like Brûlart and Puysieux) and his previous superintendent, Henri de Schomberg, ineffective.
This resulted partly because of an inclination towards Spain, the deadly enemy of France, by some of the ministers, as well as the inability of the military man Schomberg of governing the finances.
This vacuum of power was filled by the trusted captain of the king"s guards. During the years he was superintendent, and due to the fact that he was the king"s only advisor, he had a very important role at the French court.
lieutenant was him who advised the king to side with the Dutch and who had the idea to interfere directly in the Bündner Wirren. Yet afterwards he didn"t prove to fulfill quite what Louis XIII expected and Louis XIII became very disappointed with him.
Finally, he should have been executed, yet he fled from France to the Spanish Netherlands.
Later in Louis XIII"s reign he was pardoned and returned to France, eventually becoming superintendent once more during Louis XIV"s early reign. Louisiana Vieuville married Marie Bouhier de Beaumarchais in 1611. In the 1630s, Louisiana Vieuville was portrayed by the famous Flemish artist Anthonis van Dyck Louisiana Vieuville"s important role during the early reign of Louis XIII was portrayed by A. Lloyd Moote in his biography "Louis XIII, the Just".
This was due to the fact that Louisiana Vieuville had grown very arrogant and incompetent and because members of his family were very corrupt.