Rantzau, Josias, Comte de Rantzau (1609–1650)

French marshal. He served under the Great Condé, Louis II, and completed the conquest of Flanders, gaining fame at the siege of St Jean-de-Losne. He was so often wounded that he had only one eye, one ear, one arm, and one leg. Falling under the suspicion of the French chief minister, Jules Mazarin, he was imprisoned in the Bastille and died soon after his release in 1650.