ABSTRACT
If James II had made a fight for his throne in 1688, two Huguenot generals might have met – opposed in combat on the battlefield. One was Friedrich Hermann von Schomberg, serving William of Orange, and the other Louis Feversham, James II's general. This chapter concerns the latter Louis de Durfort-Duras, Marquis de Blanquefort, later to be the second Earl of Feversham. It analyses that career in the context of an international aristocratic soldiering courtly elite, both Catholic and Protestant, for which bonds of loyalty meant quite different things than they do. Eversham was brought up a Calvinist in France and became an Anglican after arriving in England. He was a regular worshipper at the French Church of the Savoy in the Strand and the Protestant Chapel in Somerset House where he lived. Though steadfastly Protestant throughout his life, Feversham proved loyal to a Catholic monarch and suffered for his choice.
