Frederick Schomberg, 1st Duke of Schomberg
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Frederick Herman de Schomberg, 1st Duke of Schomberg KG PC was a German-born military officer and nobleman who served as Master-General of the Ordnance from 1689 to 1690. Having fought in the French, Portuguese and English armies, he was killed in action fighting on the Williamite side at the Battle of the Boyne in 1690.
Frederick Schomberg, 1st Duke of Schomberg
Benjamin West's Battle of the Boyne (1778) shows the death of Schomberg in the bottom right-hand corner.
Latin inscription to the memory of Schomberg in St Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin, Ireland.
The former Boyne Obelisk (c.1890), Oldbridge, County Louth, Ireland.
Battle of the Boyne
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The Battle of the Boyne took place in 1690 between the forces of the deposed King James II, and those of King William III who, with his wife Queen Mary II, had acceded to the Crowns of England and Scotland in 1689. The battle was fought across the River Boyne close to the town of Drogheda in the Kingdom of Ireland, modern-day Republic of Ireland, and resulted in a victory for William. This turned the tide in James's failed attempt to regain the British crown and ultimately aided in ensuring the continued Protestant ascendancy in Ireland.
Battle of the Boyne between James II and William III, 11 July 1690, Jan van Huchtenburg
James II, King of England and Ireland, James VII of Scotland, 1685–1688, portrayed as head of the army c. 1685)
William III ("William of Orange"), King of England, Scotland and Ireland, 1689–1702, Stadtholder in the Netherlands, 1672–1702
The Battle of the Boyne, painted by Benjamin West in 1778