Portrait of Claude de Forbin by Antoine Graincourt, 18th century, Musée de la Marine.
Born
6 August 1656 Gardanne, Provence
Died
4 March 1733(1733-03-04) (aged 76) Near Marseille, France
Allegiance
France Ayutthaya Kingdom
Service/branch
French Navy
Rank
Admiral
Battles/wars
1686 Makassar revolt
Nine Years' War
Battle of Beachy Head
Battle of Lagos
Battles of Barfleur and La Hogue
War of the Spanish Succession
Action of 2 May 1707
Battle at The Lizard
Planned French invasion of Britain
Claude, comte de Forbin-Gardanne (6 August 1656, Gardanne – 4 March 1733) was a French naval officer, nobleman and diplomat. From 1685 to 1688, he led a diplomatic mission to the Ayutthaya Kingdom. He became governor of Bangkok and a general in the Siamese army, and left Siam shortly before King Narai fell ill and was deposed by a coup d'état.
Claude, comte deForbin-Gardanne (6 August 1656, Gardanne – 4 March 1733) was a French naval officer, nobleman and diplomat. From 1685 to 1688, he led...
(1625–1713), called the cardinal de Janson, bishop ClaudedeForbin (1656-1733), French naval commander Count deForbin, officer of the French Navy who...
Duguay-Trouin and ClaudedeForbin and an English convoy protected by a squadron under Commodore Richard Edwards. Duguay-Trouin and Forbin were two of the...
Trincomalee. Forbin was born to the family of ClaudedeForbin. He was also a parent to Suffren, as Suffren's great-grand-mother was from the Forbin family...
aircraft. Forbin is the sixth vessel of the French Navy named after the 17th century admiral ClaudeForbin-Gardanne. Construction of Forbin began in Lorient...
later that year retires to Acadie (Southeast Canada). Jean Bart and ClaudedeForbin are captured by the Royal Navy and taken to Plymouth. Three days later...
the War of the Spanish Succession in which a French squadron under ClaudedeForbin intercepted a large British convoy escorted by three ships of the line...
entertain at his house the French ambassador and musketeer, Count ClaudedeForbin, drinking to the health of the royal families of England and France...
officer, ClaudedeForbin was imprisoned for three weeks in 1691 for shooting at a Mr. Fervaquet, who owed Forbin 500 books and who insulted Forbin in the...
François-Timoléon de Choisy Father Guy Tachard, French Jesuit writer and Siamese Ambassador to France (1688) Louis Laneau, Apostolic Vicar of Siam ClaudedeForbin, French...
Ceremony and royal funeral processions. Kosa Pan wearing lomphok, 1686 ClaudedeForbin wearing Ayutthayan mandarin dress with lomphok Ayutthayan diplomats...
being accompanied by Jesuit Guy Tachard and French naval commander ClaudedeForbin, who would remain to serve King Narai as Governor of Bangkok, as well...
the command of Chevalier ClaudedeForbin. In July 1686, when the fort was attacked by a band of pirates from Makassar, de Beauregard's belly was slit...
include the French accounts of the Chevalier de Chaumont, the Abbé de Choisy, Fr. Tachard, ClaudedeForbin, de la Loubere and the Persian account of Muhammad...
beginning of the war, he was captured by an English warship, together with ClaudedeForbin, and they were taken as prisoners-of-war to Plymouth. However, three...
Austrian architect (d. 1723) August 6 – ClaudedeForbin, French naval commander (d. 1733) August 12 – Claudede Visdelou, French missionary (d. 1737) August...
educator (b. 1552) 1710 – Louis III, duke of Bourbon (b. 1668) 1733 – ClaudedeForbin, French admiral and politician (b. 1656) 1744 – John Anstis, English...
fleet actions with great success under such captains as Jean Bart, ClaudedeForbin and René Duguay-Trouin. Until what the British called the Annus Mirabilis...
those joining the Baudin expedition were Sub-lieutenants Louis-Claude (Louis) de Saulses de Freycinet and his older brother Henri-Louis (Henri). Louis did...
1651 – François Fénelon, French archbishop and poet (d. 1715) 1656 – ClaudedeForbin, French general (d. 1733) 1666 – Maria Sophia of Neuburg (d. 1699)...
illustrated himself during the commanding of the Battle of Malplaquet. ClaudedeForbin, naval commander who illustrated himself during the War of the Spanish...
Indians from the Middle East and the Malay Peninsula. The records of ClaudedeForbin, a French naval admiral who lived in Ayutthaya at the time, states...
the Venus to the king for the Louvre and the comte deForbin, the curator of the Louvre, reimbursed de Rivière for the cost of the sculpture. The name has...