Note 130 — BOOK VII[1] (continued 2)
Alexander Teixeira de Mattos translation
François de La Noue (1531-1591), nicknamed Bras-de-Fer, Iron Arm, a famous Calvinist captain. Fighting at the head of the army of the States-General against Spain, he was captured (1578) and kept prisoner for five years in the fortresses of Limburg and Charlemont. He was killed at the siege of Lamballe in Brittany, where he was sent by Henry IV.—T.