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Image: De Montmorency.svg|38. Anne de Montmorency<br><span style="font-size:88%; line-height: 1.3em;">Duke of Montmorency<br>Count of Beaumont-sur-Oise and Dammartin<br>Governor of Languedoc<br>Grand Master of France<br>Marshal of France<br>1538-1567</span>
Image: De Montmorency.svg|38. Anne de Montmorency<br><span style="font-size:88%; line-height: 1.3em;">Duke of Montmorency<br>Count of Beaumont-sur-Oise and Dammartin<br>Governor of Languedoc<br>Grand Master of France<br>Marshal of France<br>1538-1567</span>
Image: De Montmorency.svg|39. Henri I de Montmorency<br><span style="font-size:88%; line-height: 1.3em;">Duke of Montmorency<br>Count of Dammartin and Alais<br>Baron of Châteaubriant and Damville<br>Governor of Languedoc<br>Marshal of France<br>1593-1614</span>
Image: De Montmorency.svg|39. Henri I de Montmorency<br><span style="font-size:88%; line-height: 1.3em;">Duke of Montmorency<br>Count of Dammartin and Alais<br>Baron of Châteaubriant and Damville<br>Governor of Languedoc<br>Marshal of France<br>1593-1614</span>
Image: Quarterly 1 and 4 or a lion gules crowned azure, 2 and 3 azure two wolves combatant argent, inescutcheon gules a mace or garnished sable, on a chief argent a gonfanon gules (Charles d'Albert de Luynes)|40. Charles d'Albert<br><span style="font-size:88%; line-height: 1.3em;">Duke of Luynes<br>Marquis of Albert<br><br>Governor of Picardy<br>Grand Falconer of France<br>1621</span>
Image: Charles d'Albert de Luynes.svg|40. Charles d'Albert<br><span style="font-size:88%; line-height: 1.3em;">Duke of Luynes<br>Marquis of Albert<br>Governor of Picardy<br>Grand Falconer of France<br>1621</span>
Image: Bonne.svg|41. François de Bonne<br><span style="font-size:88%; line-height: 1.3em;">Duke of Lesdiguières<br>Governor of Dauphine<br>Marshal of France<br>1622-1626</span>
Image: Bonne.svg|41. François de Bonne<br><span style="font-size:88%; line-height: 1.3em;">Duke of Lesdiguières<br>Governor of Dauphine<br>Marshal of France<br>1622-1626</span>




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The Constable of France is the First Officer of the Crown, and Commander-in-Chief of the French army.

The early Constables preceded the age of heraldry.