Jean Armand de Maillé, 2nd Marquis of Brézé, Duke of Fronsac (18 October 1619 – 16 June 1646) was a French admiral.

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Jean Armand de Maillé
2nd Marquis of Brézé
the Marquis of Brézé (Versailles)
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Full name	Jean Armand de Maillé
Born	(1619-10-18)18 October 1619 Milly le Meugon, France
Died	16 June 1646(1646-06-16) (aged 26) Battle of Orbetello
Spouse(s)	never married
Issue	no issue
Father	Urbain de Maillé, Marquis of Brézé
Mother	Nicole du Plessis

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He was born in Milly-le-Meugon, in one of the most powerful French families of the time; his father was Urbain de Maillé, Marquis of Brézé, Marshal of France, his uncle Cardinal Richelieu, King Louis XIII's renowned minister, and his brother-in-law, Louis de Bourbon, Prince of Condé, (better known as the le Grand Condé), was the First Prince of the Blood.

Thanks to his uncle, at the age of seventeen, he received the title of grand-maître de la navigation (Grand-master of Navigation), a new title created by King Louis XIII for Cardinal Richelieu and equivalent to Grand Admiral of France.

One of the leading figures in the Eighty Years' War, he defeated the Spanish fleet near Cadiz (20 July 1640), and then seized Villafranca. In 1641, he arrived in Portugal to help in the Portuguese Restoration War against Spain. In 1642, he fought an indecisive action against the Spanish forces near Barcelona, and nearly completely destroyed their fleet near Cartagena on 3 July 1643. He was killed on 16 June 1646, during the Battle of Orbetello, where his fleet was defeated.^{[citation needed]}

His remains were buried in the church of Milly le Meugon, abutted to the castle walls.

Three ships were named in his honour: see French ship Maillé Brézé

• 46-gun ship of the line Brézé (1646-1665) [1]
• Maillé-Brézé (named Brézé until January 1931), a Vauquelin class destroyer destroyed in the accidental explosion of one of her torpedoes on 30 April 1940 in Greenock, Scotland
• Maillé-Brézé (D627), T 47 class destroyer, presently a museum

• Les bâtiments ayant porté le nom de Maillé-Brézé
• Louis Gabriel Michaud. "Maillé-Brézé". Biographie universelle ancienne et moderne : histoire par ordre alphabétique de la vie publique et privée de tous les hommes avec la collaboration de plus de 300 savants et littérateurs français ou étrangers (in French) (2 ed.)., vol. 26
• La Bruyère, René, La marine de Richelieu; Maillé-Brézé, général des galères, grand amiral (1619-1646), Plon, Paris, 1945, 245 pages.

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