François de Bonne, Duke of Lesdiguières

François de Bonne, Duke of Lesdiguières

(1 April 1543 – 21 September 1626) was a French soldier of the French Wars of Religion and Constable of France.
He became duke of Champsaur in 1611, governor of Dauphiné in 1612, then marshal general of the camps and armies of the king in 1621, then constable of France and knight of the Holy Spirit in 1622.

He died of fever at Valence on 21 September 1626.

 Astrologia gallica, liber XVII, 406 - Argoli, De Diebus criticis, 286 (with misprint of month : November for April, the chart is correct).

Morin de Villefranche writes in Volume 24 of his Astrologia gallica:

'Constable Lesdiguieres began to be ill on 21 August 1626. when the New Moon occurred in 28 degrees of Leo. And therefore on that day the Moon was passing from the square of Mars and Saturn to the Sun; moreover, she was the ruler of the radical ASC and was being directed to her own sinister square, since she was the apheta, and with a quincunx to Saturn following. And on the day of the beginning of his illness, Saturn, ruler of the eight in the radix and [also| in the solar revolution, was in 17 degrees of Virgo partilely opposite the radical Moon; but Mars, the ruler of Saturn, was in its place in the solar revolution; moreover, the Sun and the Moon were in trine to the radical Venus; but because she was the ruler of the twelfth in exile in Aries, she was not able to be of benefit, especially [acting] alone against the unlucky [aspects] mentioned above. ' [trad J. Holden, Astrologia Gallica Book 24: Progressions and Transits, p. 50, 2005]

Attention must be given above all to longevity, which is relatively rare at this time, especially in a man of war. De Bonne died at 83, the canonical age for the time.

I. Natal chart

ASC CAN (ruler MO)  ; MC PIS (ruler JU). JU opposite to VE, JU (so, SU strong in ARI ; VE is debilitated in ARI and MA, debilitated in TAU). In zodiaco, MO is TRI to SA and SEX to MA.
Mo in X, strong.
ALMUTEN is VE (according to Ibn-Ezra, Omar or Lilly). HYLEG is SU.

II. Primary directions for death

A. SA □ MO

1. parameters

2. analysis

3. result
zodiacal

mundane

D --> Z D Regio-Campa 1/AR orb 0.21.

B. #MA conj SU

1. parameters

2. analysis

3. result
zodiacal

mundane

D --> M C Regio-Campa EQU -0.45.

III. Primary directions for career. (for MC, directions are always zodiacal)

A. leader of the Protestants of Champsaur in 1576 :
MO conj VE

B. appointed «commander generally for the king of Dauphiné» 1589 :
MC conj SU

C. Councilor of State on September 6, 1595, commander in Provence at the end of September 1595,
JU SEX MC

D. Marshal of France on September 27, 1609 :

JU TRI  MA

 1. parameters

2. analysis

Observe that the mundane ∆ = 92.53° !

3. result
zodiacal

mundane

D --> Z D Regio-Campa PTO orb 0.38. This arc is both direct and converse.

E. Duke of Lesdiguières and peer of France in 1611

MC SEX MO (with lat MO = +5.14) according to Morin's circle.

F. The Duchy-peerage of Lesdiguières is then erected from the lands of seigneuries of Lesdiguières and Champsaur, belongings and dependencies under Henry IV. Nevertheless, he will not be able to be named duke until under Louis XIII, when, after his reception in the Parliament on February 6th, 1620, he is officially the first Duke of Lesdiguières.

∆ MO conj SU

1. parameters

Observe that the AR computation takes care of (mean) parallax MO. AR without parallax is 112.44°.

2. analysis

3. result
mundane

D --> M C Regio-Campa -0.22. (We have no to take care of the MO's proper motion).