Charles Aimé de Royrand

Catholic and Royal Army (Vendée) Counter-revolutionary forces 1726–1793 ✕ Died of wounds

Commander of the Vendéan Army of the Centre on the southern front, mortally wounded at Entrammes

Born at Saint-Fulgent in 1726, he served in the Navarre and Armagnac infantry regiments, fought in the American Revolutionary War and retired to his estates in 1780. When the rising broke out in 1793 he reluctantly accepted the local people’s call and became leader of the Army of the Centre guarding the southern front of the Vendée, leaving field command to his second Charles Sapinaud de La Rairie. He attacked Luçon in June and July and was repulsed, and was beaten again at the battle of Luçon on 14 August. On the Virée de Galerne he led the centre with La Rochejaquelein at Entrammes on 26 October, where the Army of the West was routed, but he was mortally wounded and died near Baugé on 5 December. His brother Charles Augustin had been killed leading the rising in March 1793.